Kate Skinner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 636610 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kate Skinner |
| PRENOMES | Kate |
| SOBRENOME | Skinner |
| ASSINATURA | SKINNER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3559-4916 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The most extensive reform ever made in the private law of Ghana
Ghana's 1985 Intestate Succession Law (PNDC Law 111) is a notable example of attempts by postcolonial African states to introduce new forms of protection for widows and children in cases of death ‘intestate' (that is, when the deceased person had not made a valid will). Whilst some legal scholars depicted Law 111 as a radical departure from customary laws pertaining to marriage and property, feminist scholars have been more sceptical, pointing to…
Rethinking Transnational Activism through Regional Perspectives
This collectively authored article argues for a regional turn in the historical study of transnational activism. By considering not only pan-regional movements but also examples of borderland contexts, transregional connections and diasporic understandings of ‘region’, our discussion identifies fresh possibilities for investigating the evolution and functioning of transnational activism. Based on a Royal Historical Society-funded workshop held at…
Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’
During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa. Drawing from interviews with women journalists and examples from the women's pages of the national state‐…
Women Journalists in South Africa
Women Journalists in South Africa
Gendering Citizenship and Decolonizing Justice in 1960s Ghana
This article revisits the debates over family law reform in the years surrounding the independence of Ghana from British colonial rule. It builds upon social historical studies of marriage and child-rearing, and puts these into dialogue with the scholarship on legal pluralism, in order to examine the postcolonial implications of gendered legal struggles over social reproduction that arose during the colonial era. Drawing on key court cases, the r…
West Africa's First Coup
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Media Freedom in South Africa Today
This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of financial sustainability of the media sector which have recently been compounded by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; widespread job losses in journalism; and harassment and physical violence against journalists from political representatives, security services, the judiciary, citizens and from within the media sector itself. …
West Africa's First Coup
This article is an historical analysis of West Africa's first coup. Starting from contemporary accounts of the 1963 assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio of the Republic of Togo, and the overthrow of his government, the article identifies three competing explanations of events. It follows these three explanations through Togo's "shadow archives," asking how and why each of them was taken up or disregarded by particular people at particular …
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism
There is no shortage of books on Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana. In writing Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana, Jeffrey S. Ahlman challenged himself to say something new about the nature of Nkrumah’s anticolonial nationalism, his leadership of the Gold Coast to independence from Britain, and his ambitious projects of nation building and Pan-African liberation. This task was complicated by the fact that Nkrumah’s mass moveme…
The South African Broadcasting Corporation
Women, Gender, and “Specifically Historical” Research on Ghana
This essay identifies some divergences in understandings and applications of the terms “women” and “gender” since the 1980s. It suggests how these divergences might help us to analyze the Ghana-focused scholarship in relation to broader trends in African studies, women’s history, and gender history. Gender has permeated Ghana Studies in articles and special issues on contemporary migration, work, households, health, sexualities, and politics; but…
Trump and the Party of Lincoln
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election may represent the beginning of a sea change in American politics. This change is all the more remarkable because by ignoring the plight of millions of Americans, elites—including pundits, political operatives, politicians, journalists, social scientists, other scholars, and some leading Democrats—badly miscalculated Donald J. Trump's chances of capturing the White House. They also failed to understand…
Harcourt Fuller. Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
As the first sub-Saharan country to attain its independence from colonial rule in 1957, Ghana continues to act as a focal point in wider historical debates about the nature of anticolonial mobilizations, competing visions of political freedom, and the challenges of new nationhood. Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, has attained iconic status as an anticolonial and Pan-African leader. Harcourt Fuller’s Building the Ghanaian…
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French-administered territories. By the 1950s a political movement led by the Ewe ethnic group called for the unification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite the efforts of the Ewe, the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was ultimately merged with the Gold Coast to become Ghana, the first independ…
Bridging gaps and jumping through hoops
The wider context of arts and humanities education in the UK has demanded that university teachers and administrators focus on ‘end points’. Increased emphasis on the generic and transferable skills attained through arts and humanities programmes, along with intense concern to raise students’ reported levels of satisfaction, do not necessarily help university teachers to make the best use of the expanding body of research on how students actually…
Teaching the Research in Akan Gender History
A comment on Stefano Boni, 'Transformations in Notions of Gender, Parenthood, and Marriage in Southern Ghana: a critique of the hypothesis of 'retrograde steps' for Akan women
The Communion of Women
Modernity and Danger
At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his predicament as an orphaned boy from an unnamed fishing village in the Gold Coast.[2][1] We learn that
Who Knew the Minds of the People? Specialist Knowledge and Developmentalist Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Ghana
By the mid-1960s, local-level development workers in Ghana were expected to act as the eyes and ears of the state, reporting on 'the minds of the people' and explaining their reactions to President Kwame Nkrumah's project of socialist reconstruction. This articles argues that through mass education, social welfare and community development plans, both the late colonial and early independent state sought to make its presence manifest in the everyd…
Ending British Rule in Africa
There is now a very substantial literature on Pan-Africanism in the mid-twentieth century. A mere sample would necessarily include accounts ‘from within’ (Ras Makonnen, St Clair Drake), biographical and prosopographical studies (such as that by James Hooker on Padmore, and Bill Schwarz's edited collection on West Indians in Britain), and examinations of the radicalising effects of time spent in the UK and the USA on future African nationalist lea…
From Pentecostalism to politics
This article takes as its starting point a strike among African trainee literacy workers in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. While the existing literature tends to concentrate on the tensions and contradictions in British colonial education policy, this article uses the strike to investigate how these agendas were experienced by, and engendered opposition from, literacy workers on the ground. It argues that, in thei…
Local Historians and Strangers with Big Eyes
In 2001 I attended a meeting at the London headquarters of the Movement for a Resurgent Togoland (MORETO). Seven people-mainly middle-aged and elderly men from the inland Ewe-speaking areas of Ghana-had gathered together to share their findings about the modern political history of the area where they were born. They vocalised their dissatisfaction with the incorporation of this area within the borders of Ghana at independence in 1957, and they d…
Modernity and Danger
GHANA STUDIES / Volumes 12–13 ISSN 1536-5514 / E-ISSN 2333-7168© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System 121 MODERNITY AND DANGER The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit1 PETER J. BLOOM KATE SKINNER Introduction At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his …
It Brought Some Kind of Neatness to Mankind
This article is concerned with mass education in late colonial Ghana. The first part examines how people in the Ashanti Region interpreted and responded to a policy that was conceived in the period of power sharing between an African nationalist legislative assembly and a civil service that was still dominated by British expatriates. Literacy campaigns and related community development activities were shaped by the expectations and ideals of the …
West Africa's First Coup
This article is an historical analysis of West Africa's first coup. Starting from contemporary accounts of the 1963 assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio of the Republic of Togo, and the overthrow of his government, the article identifies three competing explanations of events. It follows these three explanations through Togo's "shadow archives," asking how and why each of them was taken up or disregarded by particular people at particular …
It Brought Some Kind of Neatness to Mankind
This article is concerned with mass education in late colonial Ghana. The first part examines how people in the Ashanti Region interpreted and responded to a policy that was conceived in the period of power sharing between an African nationalist legislative assembly and a civil service that was still dominated by British expatriates. Literacy campaigns and related community development activities were shaped by the expectations and ideals of the …
Reading, Writing and Rallies
Examples of chant, song and written propaganda from the mid-1950s are examined here in order to probe the debates and relationships which influenced the political future of the Ewe-speaking areas of southern British Togoland. While microstudies have been important in explaining sources of division between communities in these areas, propaganda provides a means of understanding the arguments, idioms and ideas about the state which brought many dif…
Who Knew the Minds of the People? Specialist Knowledge and Developmentalist Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Ghana
By the mid-1960s, local-level development workers in Ghana were expected to act as the eyes and ears of the state, reporting on 'the minds of the people' and explaining their reactions to President Kwame Nkrumah's project of socialist reconstruction. This articles argues that through mass education, social welfare and community development plans, both the late colonial and early independent state sought to make its presence manifest in the everyd…
Modernity and Danger
GHANA STUDIES / Volumes 12–13 ISSN 1536-5514 / E-ISSN 2333-7168© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System 121 MODERNITY AND DANGER The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit1 PETER J. BLOOM KATE SKINNER Introduction At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his …
Agency and Analogy in African History
As the pioneering generation of postwar British academics retired, some produced autobiographical texts which revealed the personal circumstances and intellectual influences that brought them to the study of Africa. Edited volumes have also provided broader reflections on the academic disciplines, methodologies, and institutions through which these scholars engaged with the continent. In one such text, Christopher Clapham and Richard Hodder-Willi…
From Pentecostalism to politics
This article takes as its starting point a strike among African trainee literacy workers in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. While the existing literature tends to concentrate on the tensions and contradictions in British colonial education policy, this article uses the strike to investigate how these agendas were experienced by, and engendered opposition from, literacy workers on the ground. It argues that, in thei…
Local Historians and Strangers with Big Eyes
In 2001 I attended a meeting at the London headquarters of the Movement for a Resurgent Togoland (MORETO). Seven people-mainly middle-aged and elderly men from the inland Ewe-speaking areas of Ghana-had gathered together to share their findings about the modern political history of the area where they were born. They vocalised their dissatisfaction with the incorporation of this area within the borders of Ghana at independence in 1957, and they d…
Gendering Citizenship and Decolonizing Justice in 1960s Ghana
This article revisits the debates over family law reform in the years surrounding the independence of Ghana from British colonial rule. It builds upon social historical studies of marriage and child-rearing, and puts these into dialogue with the scholarship on legal pluralism, in order to examine the postcolonial implications of gendered legal struggles over social reproduction that arose during the colonial era. Drawing on key court cases, the r…
Bridging gaps and jumping through hoops
The wider context of arts and humanities education in the UK has demanded that university teachers and administrators focus on ‘end points’. Increased emphasis on the generic and transferable skills attained through arts and humanities programmes, along with intense concern to raise students’ reported levels of satisfaction, do not necessarily help university teachers to make the best use of the expanding body of research on how students actually…
Black Experience and the Empire
Journal Article Black Experience and the Empire Get access Black Experience and the Empire. Edited by Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2004; pp. xv + 416. £39; pb. £15.99). KA Skinner KA Skinner University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 497, June 2007, Pages 773–775, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem116 Published: 01 Jun…
Celebrating Difference or Naturalising Stereotypes
Living and Loving
Black Experience and the Empire
Journal Article Black Experience and the Empire Get access Black Experience and the Empire. Edited by Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2004; pp. xv + 416. £39; pb. £15.99). KA Skinner KA Skinner University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 497, June 2007, Pages 773–775, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem116 Published: 01 Jun…
Agency and Analogy in African History
As the pioneering generation of postwar British academics retired, some produced autobiographical texts which revealed the personal circumstances and intellectual influences that brought them to the study of Africa. Edited volumes have also provided broader reflections on the academic disciplines, methodologies, and institutions through which these scholars engaged with the continent. In one such text, Christopher Clapham and Richard Hodder-Willi…
Reading, Writing and Rallies
Examples of chant, song and written propaganda from the mid-1950s are examined here in order to probe the debates and relationships which influenced the political future of the Ewe-speaking areas of southern British Togoland. While microstudies have been important in explaining sources of division between communities in these areas, propaganda provides a means of understanding the arguments, idioms and ideas about the state which brought many dif…
Modernity and Danger
GHANA STUDIES / Volumes 12–13 ISSN 1536-5514 / E-ISSN 2333-7168© 2011 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System 121 MODERNITY AND DANGER The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit1 PETER J. BLOOM KATE SKINNER Introduction At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his …
It Brought Some Kind of Neatness to Mankind
This article is concerned with mass education in late colonial Ghana. The first part examines how people in the Ashanti Region interpreted and responded to a policy that was conceived in the period of power sharing between an African nationalist legislative assembly and a civil service that was still dominated by British expatriates. Literacy campaigns and related community development activities were shaped by the expectations and ideals of the …
From Pentecostalism to politics
This article takes as its starting point a strike among African trainee literacy workers in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1952. While the existing literature tends to concentrate on the tensions and contradictions in British colonial education policy, this article uses the strike to investigate how these agendas were experienced by, and engendered opposition from, literacy workers on the ground. It argues that, in thei…
Local Historians and Strangers with Big Eyes
In 2001 I attended a meeting at the London headquarters of the Movement for a Resurgent Togoland (MORETO). Seven people-mainly middle-aged and elderly men from the inland Ewe-speaking areas of Ghana-had gathered together to share their findings about the modern political history of the area where they were born. They vocalised their dissatisfaction with the incorporation of this area within the borders of Ghana at independence in 1957, and they d…
Modernity and Danger
At the beginning of The Boy Kumasenu (dir. Sean Graham, 1952) the teenage protagonist, Kumasenu (Nortey Engmann), is introduced and aurally shadowed by a voice-over narration that explains his predicament as an orphaned boy from an unnamed fishing village in the Gold Coast.[2][1] We learn that
Who Knew the Minds of the People? Specialist Knowledge and Developmentalist Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Ghana
By the mid-1960s, local-level development workers in Ghana were expected to act as the eyes and ears of the state, reporting on 'the minds of the people' and explaining their reactions to President Kwame Nkrumah's project of socialist reconstruction. This articles argues that through mass education, social welfare and community development plans, both the late colonial and early independent state sought to make its presence manifest in the everyd…
Ending British Rule in Africa
There is now a very substantial literature on Pan-Africanism in the mid-twentieth century. A mere sample would necessarily include accounts ‘from within’ (Ras Makonnen, St Clair Drake), biographical and prosopographical studies (such as that by James Hooker on Padmore, and Bill Schwarz's edited collection on West Indians in Britain), and examinations of the radicalising effects of time spent in the UK and the USA on future African nationalist lea…
Teaching the Research in Akan Gender History
A comment on Stefano Boni, 'Transformations in Notions of Gender, Parenthood, and Marriage in Southern Ghana: a critique of the hypothesis of 'retrograde steps' for Akan women
The Communion of Women
Bridging gaps and jumping through hoops
The wider context of arts and humanities education in the UK has demanded that university teachers and administrators focus on ‘end points’. Increased emphasis on the generic and transferable skills attained through arts and humanities programmes, along with intense concern to raise students’ reported levels of satisfaction, do not necessarily help university teachers to make the best use of the expanding body of research on how students actually…
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland
The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French-administered territories. By the 1950s a political movement led by the Ewe ethnic group called for the unification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite the efforts of the Ewe, the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was ultimately merged with the Gold Coast to become Ghana, the first independ…
Trump and the Party of Lincoln
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election may represent the beginning of a sea change in American politics. This change is all the more remarkable because by ignoring the plight of millions of Americans, elites—including pundits, political operatives, politicians, journalists, social scientists, other scholars, and some leading Democrats—badly miscalculated Donald J. Trump's chances of capturing the White House. They also failed to understand…
Harcourt Fuller. Building the Ghanaian Nation-State
As the first sub-Saharan country to attain its independence from colonial rule in 1957, Ghana continues to act as a focal point in wider historical debates about the nature of anticolonial mobilizations, competing visions of political freedom, and the challenges of new nationhood. Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, has attained iconic status as an anticolonial and Pan-African leader. Harcourt Fuller’s Building the Ghanaian…
The South African Broadcasting Corporation
Women, Gender, and “Specifically Historical” Research on Ghana
This essay identifies some divergences in understandings and applications of the terms “women” and “gender” since the 1980s. It suggests how these divergences might help us to analyze the Ghana-focused scholarship in relation to broader trends in African studies, women’s history, and gender history. Gender has permeated Ghana Studies in articles and special issues on contemporary migration, work, households, health, sexualities, and politics; but…
Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Living with Nkrumahism
There is no shortage of books on Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana. In writing Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana, Jeffrey S. Ahlman challenged himself to say something new about the nature of Nkrumah’s anticolonial nationalism, his leadership of the Gold Coast to independence from Britain, and his ambitious projects of nation building and Pan-African liberation. This task was complicated by the fact that Nkrumah’s mass moveme…
Media Freedom in South Africa Today
This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of financial sustainability of the media sector which have recently been compounded by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; widespread job losses in journalism; and harassment and physical violence against journalists from political representatives, security services, the judiciary, citizens and from within the media sector itself. …
West Africa's First Coup
This article is an historical analysis of West Africa's first coup. Starting from contemporary accounts of the 1963 assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio of the Republic of Togo, and the overthrow of his government, the article identifies three competing explanations of events. It follows these three explanations through Togo's "shadow archives," asking how and why each of them was taken up or disregarded by particular people at particular …
Gendering Citizenship and Decolonizing Justice in 1960s Ghana
This article revisits the debates over family law reform in the years surrounding the independence of Ghana from British colonial rule. It builds upon social historical studies of marriage and child-rearing, and puts these into dialogue with the scholarship on legal pluralism, in order to examine the postcolonial implications of gendered legal struggles over social reproduction that arose during the colonial era. Drawing on key court cases, the r…
West Africa's First Coup
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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