The Kusasi-Mamprusi Conflict in Bawku: A Legacy of British Colonial Policy in Northern Ghana
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: of land, succession to chieftaincy titles, and resource allocation, among others. The West African sub-region has had its fair share of these upheavals, notably in Liberia, Sierra-Leone and Cote d’Ivoire. Ghana is among the few countries in West Africa perceived to be oasis of peace in a sub-region otherwise characterized by civil wars, rebel activities and general instability. This image of Ghana, however, only masks a festering wound of communal violence, inter-ethnic conflicts and armed confrontations in the Northern part of Ghana. The root causes of these conflicts, which have almost become persistent, are largely traceable to the introduction of secular political authority/chieftaincy in areas which, before colonialism, were described as stateless or acephalous. The security of the entire country has often been compromised by the scope of unrest, wanton loss of lives and property, waste of the nation’s scarce resources and the dislocation of people. Generally, scholars are divided in their discussion of the root causes of inter-ethnic conflicts that occur in Northern Ghana as a result of disputes over succession to a chieftaincy title or office. One school of thought traced the genesis of these conflicts to P
Source: Ghana Studies
Author: Felix Y. T. Longi
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2142552172