Benjamin Talton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 652310 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin Talton |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin |
| SOBRENOME | Talton |
| ASSINATURA | TALTON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1504-4677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
An African Trade Revolution Takes Shape
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement, launched on January 1, 2021, will be Africa’s most ambitious united endeavor to assert financial oversight over the extractive resources sector—if it is fully implemented. The United States can act as a supportive partner, but what matters most is change from within Africa itself to finally realize pan-African visions of economic sovereignty
Democracy in Ghana
AHR Conversation
This annual AHR Conversation focuses on the issues and historiographic debates raised by the term "Black Internationalism." Participants Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Benjamin Talton, and Kira Thurman bring a wide array of interests and areas of expertise to bear on the origins, evolution, and meaning of the concept of Black Internationalism; its application within Africa, the U.S., and the Af…
Kill Rats and Stop Plague”
The outbreak of bubonic plague in Kumasi from March 1924 until March 1925 killed 145 people and contributed to significant social and political changes in the city. In this article, I reconstruct the events that surrounded the epidemic, particularly British officials’ responses and efforts to end it, to argue that the epidemic grew out of Kumasi’s integration into the British Empire and capitalist system and therefore must be examined within the …
“That All Konkomba Should Henceforth Unite”
G hana
This entry describes the nature of ethnicity and nationalism in Ghana from the colonial period to the present.
The Northern Factor in Ghana History
A friend told me of meeting a lorry driver in a restaurant in Bolgatanga, capital of Ghana’s Upper East Region. He had arrived from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and was heading south. When she asked of his final destination, he responded, “Ghana!” The unwitting irony and humor in the man’s
Special Issue Editors’ Note
The Ghana Studies Association held it first triennial conference from March 23 to 26, on the campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. It was an exciting three days that bubbled over with scholarly panels, day-trips to historic sites in and around Kumasi, cultural
S Africa in Historical Perspective
Scholars and other commentators have largely characterized the histories of African nations in terms of failed states, economic underdevelopment, political corruption, and civil war. This introduction and the articles that follow demonstrate the utility of breaking out of the mold of measuring African “successes” and “failures” in terms of national politics and economics, without due consideration of local political histories, popular culture, an…
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas
Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local p
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas
“That all Konkomba Should Henceforth Unite”—Ethnic Politics and the Use of Violence in Northern Ghana, 1977–1994
D uring the period of colonial rule in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, land and ethnicity were politicized in very similar ways. Both had far-reaching implications for popular interpretations and reinterpretations of belonging. The British structured local politics in a way that forced tradition to be intertwined with constructions of ethnicity, rendering it static and clearly demarcated. Yet the people included under the rubric of pa…
“A Festering Sore On an Otherwise Healthy Administrative Body”—Konkomba Political Agency and British Authority, 1929–1951
I n September 1940 a group of Konkomba men raided the predom-inantly Dagomba village of Jagbel and killed the Zegbeli Na—the Dagomba chief of Jagbel—along with Bukari Kanjara, a constable, and members of the Zegbeli Na’s household. 1 During the 1930s indirect rule brought increased powers to Dagomba nas and greater means for them to reap material benefits from their authority over Konkomba villages. Part of their official responsibility was to re…
“Their Power Will Be Uniformly Supported”—Power and Memory
I n one of many interviews that A.W. Cardinall conducted among Dagomba during his tenure as Yendi district commissioner, a Dagomba na told him a story to convey the extent of precolonial Dagomba political influence over neighboring Konkomba clans. The story depicted Konkomba from the village of Kpalba running toward the Oti River to escape from Dagomba slave raiders. When the Konkomba reached the river, as the na describes, “there was no means of…
Conclusion
Between 1955 and 1994 Konkomba leaders in Tamale, Saboba, and Accra promoted the idea of a Konkomba community of belonging that would allow them to assert Konkomba as one of Ghana’s politically legitimate tribes. Political legitimacy meant economic and political autonomy and direct representation by a recognized paramount chief at the Regional and National Houses of Chiefs—the quasi-government bodies with authority over the nation’s “customary” a…
“Down with Black Imperialism in the North!”—Education, Local Politics, and Self-Help Initiatives, 1945–1972
T here are intellectual traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa that resemble racism but are not built on ideas of biological distinctions. One does not naturally think of racism to describe relations among African societies in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Indeed, the inequality that was characteristic of the ethnic-based political hierarchy of local society during the colonial period falls short of a race-based system of social exclusion. …
Politics of Social Change in Ghana
With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interes
The Past and Present in Ghana's Ethnic Conflicts
This article focuses on the events surrounding the 1940 Konkomba attack on the predominantly Dagomba village of Jagbel, in what is today Ghana's Northern Region. This event demonstrates that the antagonism that became characteristic of the relationship between these two groups in the postcolonial period was a product of the political structure that the British colonial administration imposed. A central feature of this structure was indirect rule,…
The Past and Present in Ghana's Ethnic Conflicts
This article focuses on the events surrounding the 1940 Konkomba attack on the predominantly Dagomba village of Jagbel, in what is today Ghana's Northern Region. This event demonstrates that the antagonism that became characteristic of the relationship between these two groups in the postcolonial period was a product of the political structure that the British colonial administration imposed. A central feature of this structure was indirect rule,…
Democracy in Ghana
The Northern Factor in Ghana History
A friend told me of meeting a lorry driver in a restaurant in Bolgatanga, capital of Ghana’s Upper East Region. He had arrived from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and was heading south. When she asked of his final destination, he responded, “Ghana!” The unwitting irony and humor in the man’s
The Past and Present in Ghana's Ethnic Conflicts
This article focuses on the events surrounding the 1940 Konkomba attack on the predominantly Dagomba village of Jagbel, in what is today Ghana's Northern Region. This event demonstrates that the antagonism that became characteristic of the relationship between these two groups in the postcolonial period was a product of the political structure that the British colonial administration imposed. A central feature of this structure was indirect rule,…
“That all Konkomba Should Henceforth Unite”—Ethnic Politics and the Use of Violence in Northern Ghana, 1977–1994
D uring the period of colonial rule in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, land and ethnicity were politicized in very similar ways. Both had far-reaching implications for popular interpretations and reinterpretations of belonging. The British structured local politics in a way that forced tradition to be intertwined with constructions of ethnicity, rendering it static and clearly demarcated. Yet the people included under the rubric of pa…
“A Festering Sore On an Otherwise Healthy Administrative Body”—Konkomba Political Agency and British Authority, 1929–1951
I n September 1940 a group of Konkomba men raided the predom-inantly Dagomba village of Jagbel and killed the Zegbeli Na—the Dagomba chief of Jagbel—along with Bukari Kanjara, a constable, and members of the Zegbeli Na’s household. 1 During the 1930s indirect rule brought increased powers to Dagomba nas and greater means for them to reap material benefits from their authority over Konkomba villages. Part of their official responsibility was to re…
“Their Power Will Be Uniformly Supported”—Power and Memory
I n one of many interviews that A.W. Cardinall conducted among Dagomba during his tenure as Yendi district commissioner, a Dagomba na told him a story to convey the extent of precolonial Dagomba political influence over neighboring Konkomba clans. The story depicted Konkomba from the village of Kpalba running toward the Oti River to escape from Dagomba slave raiders. When the Konkomba reached the river, as the na describes, “there was no means of…
Conclusion
Between 1955 and 1994 Konkomba leaders in Tamale, Saboba, and Accra promoted the idea of a Konkomba community of belonging that would allow them to assert Konkomba as one of Ghana’s politically legitimate tribes. Political legitimacy meant economic and political autonomy and direct representation by a recognized paramount chief at the Regional and National Houses of Chiefs—the quasi-government bodies with authority over the nation’s “customary” a…
“Down with Black Imperialism in the North!”—Education, Local Politics, and Self-Help Initiatives, 1945–1972
T here are intellectual traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa that resemble racism but are not built on ideas of biological distinctions. One does not naturally think of racism to describe relations among African societies in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Indeed, the inequality that was characteristic of the ethnic-based political hierarchy of local society during the colonial period falls short of a race-based system of social exclusion. …
Politics of Social Change in Ghana
With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interes
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas
Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local p
Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas
S Africa in Historical Perspective
Scholars and other commentators have largely characterized the histories of African nations in terms of failed states, economic underdevelopment, political corruption, and civil war. This introduction and the articles that follow demonstrate the utility of breaking out of the mold of measuring African “successes” and “failures” in terms of national politics and economics, without due consideration of local political histories, popular culture, an…
Special Issue Editors’ Note
The Ghana Studies Association held it first triennial conference from March 23 to 26, on the campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. It was an exciting three days that bubbled over with scholarly panels, day-trips to historic sites in and around Kumasi, cultural
G hana
This entry describes the nature of ethnicity and nationalism in Ghana from the colonial period to the present.
The Northern Factor in Ghana History
A friend told me of meeting a lorry driver in a restaurant in Bolgatanga, capital of Ghana’s Upper East Region. He had arrived from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and was heading south. When she asked of his final destination, he responded, “Ghana!” The unwitting irony and humor in the man’s
“That All Konkomba Should Henceforth Unite”
Kill Rats and Stop Plague”
The outbreak of bubonic plague in Kumasi from March 1924 until March 1925 killed 145 people and contributed to significant social and political changes in the city. In this article, I reconstruct the events that surrounded the epidemic, particularly British officials’ responses and efforts to end it, to argue that the epidemic grew out of Kumasi’s integration into the British Empire and capitalist system and therefore must be examined within the …
Democracy in Ghana
AHR Conversation
This annual AHR Conversation focuses on the issues and historiographic debates raised by the term "Black Internationalism." Participants Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Benjamin Talton, and Kira Thurman bring a wide array of interests and areas of expertise to bear on the origins, evolution, and meaning of the concept of Black Internationalism; its application within Africa, the U.S., and the Af…
An African Trade Revolution Takes Shape
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement, launched on January 1, 2021, will be Africa’s most ambitious united endeavor to assert financial oversight over the extractive resources sector—if it is fully implemented. The United States can act as a supportive partner, but what matters most is change from within Africa itself to finally realize pan-African visions of economic sovereignty
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