Competing Systems of Inheritance before the British Courts of the Gold Coast Colony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3911478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Gocking (0000-0002-4259-4383, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 601 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219500 |
| OpenAlex | W2271452883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Among the Western-educated community of the Gold Coast during the inter-war years, there seemed to be considerable public agreement that the and monstrous custom of matrilineal inheritance would gradually be swept away by the advancing tide of civilization. As one reporter in the Accra newspaper, The Gold Coast Indepenident, expressed it in 1932: the matrilineal family was primitive idea which every people at one stage of their evolution must pass through.l Yet who should inherit, son or nephew, was still clearly an issue of some contention, and as an indication of this, at the debate that The Young Peoples Literary Club sponsored at the Rodger Club in 1932 on this question, everyone who was anyone in Accra was there.2 It was a matter that clearly concerned both Akans and Gas as was reflected in the ethnic diversity of the three judges: Dr. J. B. Danquah, an Akyem; Father E. D. Martinson, a Ga; and Nii Kojo Ababio IV, the James Town Mantse, and also a Ga.3 Nevertheless, indicative of the majority sentiment among
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |