Manuel J Manu-Osafo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel J Manu-Osafo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel J |
| FAMILY NAME | Manu-Osafo |
| SIGNATURE | MANU-OSAFO M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7151-1519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Any Progressive Nation Requires a Financial Backbone”
In the 1940s Asantehene Prempeh II decided to establish a national fund to develop Asante. Even though his proposal targeted sectors such as education, healthcare, agriculture, and administration, naturally it also raised skepticism. Would this national fund be used for his personal causes? Was the fund a ploy to accumulate wealth for the Golden Stool? Would Asante’s powerful chiefs render open accounts? Why did chiefs need to initiate developmen…
Armed Robberies in Colonial Asante
Armed robberies that occurred in colonial Asante between 1935 and 1945 made life unbearable. This caused the colonial state and the restored Asante monarchy to try to find solutions to the growing insecurity. This article considers the various reactions to the armed robberies as a lens on the colonial state’s relationship with Asante society at the height of colonial power (1935–45). We argue that the colonial state was undercut by tensions, cont…
The Deployment of Medicine in the 1874 Sagrenti War
Literature on the 1874 Sagrenti War tend to emphasize superior British weaponry and unravelling sociopolitical conditions in Asante as the factors which determined British victory. This essay takes a different view. It contends that Asante-British wars before 1874 followed similar patterns where both sides recruited ad hoc with few medical and welfare considerations. This approach resulted in many deaths from diseases. Drawing on primary sources …
Chiefs and the Expansion of Education in Colonial Asante, 1940–1950
This article offers an account highlighting the contribution of chiefs to the development of formal education in Asante. It demonstrates that Asante chiefs played an instrumental role in the formulation of government policies, especially in the field of education. This helped to develop Asante’s identified human resource needs while also laying the foundation for solutions to future demands. Chiefs achieved these goals through numerous Asante Con…
Urban History in Kumase, Ghana
This note seeks to bring awareness to the wide variety of archival documents available for research in urban history in Kumase, Ghana’s second city and capital of the historic Asante Kingdom. We draw mainly on our experiences researching the history of Jackson Park, one of colonial Kumase’s earliest public parks
Antiwitchcraft Movements in Colonial Asante
Silences exist in the British colonial archives and the secondary literature on Asante's resistance to colonial rule. The Yaa Asantewaa War (1900–1) is cited as the main instance of resistance. This study challenges these assumptions by arguing that Asante resistance was apparent in the arena of Asante religious belief and practice, and particularly rooted in antiwitchcraft movements. These movements materialized not in periods of extreme violenc…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
The Days of their Heedless Power Were Over and Done’
The British surprisingly faced no military resistance when they captured Asante in 1896. Previous works have focused on the agency of actors like Prempe and Frederick Hodgson to explain why. This paper, in contrast, approaches this epoch in Asante history from the context of the sociopolitical power structure within which the precolonial Asante state operated. It asserts that Asante's independence was contingent on having a strong military. But s…
The Days of their Heedless Power Were Over and Done’
The British surprisingly faced no military resistance when they captured Asante in 1896. Previous works have focused on the agency of actors like Prempe and Frederick Hodgson to explain why. This paper, in contrast, approaches this epoch in Asante history from the context of the sociopolitical power structure within which the precolonial Asante state operated. It asserts that Asante's independence was contingent on having a strong military. But s…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
What are we celebrating?”
National day celebrations are high points in the nation-building project during which citizens and leaders recommit themselves to the “national cause”. But owing to the poignant feelings that these celebrations evoke and the essentially open-ended nature of the nation-building project, rival political factions prefer to use such occasions to assert competing narratives of the nation and to contest authorised visions of the future. These competing…
The Days of their Heedless Power Were Over and Done’
The British surprisingly faced no military resistance when they captured Asante in 1896. Previous works have focused on the agency of actors like Prempe and Frederick Hodgson to explain why. This paper, in contrast, approaches this epoch in Asante history from the context of the sociopolitical power structure within which the precolonial Asante state operated. It asserts that Asante's independence was contingent on having a strong military. But s…
Antiwitchcraft Movements in Colonial Asante
Silences exist in the British colonial archives and the secondary literature on Asante's resistance to colonial rule. The Yaa Asantewaa War (1900–1) is cited as the main instance of resistance. This study challenges these assumptions by arguing that Asante resistance was apparent in the arena of Asante religious belief and practice, and particularly rooted in antiwitchcraft movements. These movements materialized not in periods of extreme violenc…
Chiefs and the Expansion of Education in Colonial Asante, 1940–1950
This article offers an account highlighting the contribution of chiefs to the development of formal education in Asante. It demonstrates that Asante chiefs played an instrumental role in the formulation of government policies, especially in the field of education. This helped to develop Asante’s identified human resource needs while also laying the foundation for solutions to future demands. Chiefs achieved these goals through numerous Asante Con…
Urban History in Kumase, Ghana
This note seeks to bring awareness to the wide variety of archival documents available for research in urban history in Kumase, Ghana’s second city and capital of the historic Asante Kingdom. We draw mainly on our experiences researching the history of Jackson Park, one of colonial Kumase’s earliest public parks
The Deployment of Medicine in the 1874 Sagrenti War
Literature on the 1874 Sagrenti War tend to emphasize superior British weaponry and unravelling sociopolitical conditions in Asante as the factors which determined British victory. This essay takes a different view. It contends that Asante-British wars before 1874 followed similar patterns where both sides recruited ad hoc with few medical and welfare considerations. This approach resulted in many deaths from diseases. Drawing on primary sources …
“Any Progressive Nation Requires a Financial Backbone”
In the 1940s Asantehene Prempeh II decided to establish a national fund to develop Asante. Even though his proposal targeted sectors such as education, healthcare, agriculture, and administration, naturally it also raised skepticism. Would this national fund be used for his personal causes? Was the fund a ploy to accumulate wealth for the Golden Stool? Would Asante’s powerful chiefs render open accounts? Why did chiefs need to initiate developmen…
Armed Robberies in Colonial Asante
Armed robberies that occurred in colonial Asante between 1935 and 1945 made life unbearable. This caused the colonial state and the restored Asante monarchy to try to find solutions to the growing insecurity. This article considers the various reactions to the armed robberies as a lens on the colonial state’s relationship with Asante society at the height of colonial power (1935–45). We argue that the colonial state was undercut by tensions, cont…
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