Contribution à une étude de l'armée asante

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ID3620282
AutoresEmmanuel Terray (autor correspondente)
Ano1976
Volume16
Fascículo61
Páginas297-356
Data de publicação1976-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
EditoraPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1976.2905
OpenAlexW2022556388
IdiomaFR
Citações recebidas9

E. Terray-A Contribution to the Study of the Asante Army. Ail the available sources agree on the outstanding military efficiency of the Asante army. Even when hopelessly outclassed by superior weaponry, Asante soldiers and officers still showed a sense of tactics and discipline on a par with their physical courage. It took machine-guns, repeaters and superior logistics to finally overcome them. Asante military superiority vis-a-vis the hinterland tribes is explainable in terms of a near monopoly of firearms, but this does not apply vis-a-vis the coastal people who were better supplied with guns and powder. The ultimate explanation seems to reside in Asante ideology which put a premium on values such as courage and discipline to the detriment, among other things, of economie entrepreneurship : the Asante economy was mainly geared to the maintenance and expansion of military power-and hence of Asante supremacy. This lead eventually to the use of a kind of intellectual conservatism which proved nearly self-defeating.in the long run

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