Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Wassa Fiase, Gold Coast (Ghana)
The Activism of Two Women, 1874–1893
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20086361 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kwabena O Akurang-Parry (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 40-57 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Mining Women (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-73399-6_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2484608713 |
| ISBN | 9781349733996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This study deals with the history of two remarkable women whose respective activism impacted colonial rule and gold mining in Wassa Fiase in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. The two women were Amba N'kroma who was married to Enimil Kwao, the king of the gold-bearing state of Wassa Fiase, and the other was Adwoa Arduah, the queen1 of Wassa Fiase. Apart from a brief review of women's activism and a historiographical rethinking of the looming presence of colonialism over the mining setting of Wassa Fiase, this chapter is divided into two major parts. The first portion examines the social activism of Amba N'kroma whose quest for divorce from King Enimil Kwao served as a catalyst for the maximization of colonial rule and the inception of corporate gold mining in Wassa Fiase. In 1876, Amba N'kroma traveled from Wassa Fiase, a backwater in the Western Province, to Cape Coast, the colonial capital in the Central Province, to seek divorce at the colonial courts. Among other things, she informed the colonial authorities that her husband, King Enimil Kwao, had engaged in slave dealing, a precolonial practice that had been abolished by the British in 1874–1875.2 Consequently, Enimil Kwao was summoned to Cape Coast, tried, imprisoned, and exiled to Lagos, all spanning the period 1876–1889. His incarceration and subsequent exile created a political vacuum that enabled the colonial state to serve as an agency of corporate capitalist intervention in the local gold mining economy.KeywordsBeachDinateBoulderDispatchNialThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Ancient history · Archaeology · Cape · Capital (architecture) · Colonialism · Economic history · Geography · Gold coast · Historiography · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · African history and culture studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture
The African Clergy and Historical Reconstruction
To Wassa Fiase for Gold
Female and Male in West Africa
Joseph Chamberlain, imperial finance and railway policy in British West Africa in the late nineteenth century 1
Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Legitimate Trade and the Impact of Abolition in the Gold Coast, 1874–1901
A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti1
El Dorado in West Africa
West African Trade and Coast Society
Long-distance exchange and the formation of the State
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |