Our Own Way in This Part of the World : Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation /

Kofi Donkor (1913-1995) was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of shared values for his Ghanaian community. In Our Own Way in This Part of the World Kwasi Konadu centers Donkor's life story and experiences...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konadu, Kwasi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Donkor, Kofi, > Nana, > 1913-1995.
Traditional medicine.
Manners and customs.
Healers.
Decolonization.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Decolonisation > Ghāna.
Guerisseurs > Ghāna > Biographies.
Decolonization > Ghana.
Traditional medicine > Ghana.
Healers > Ghana > Biography.
Ghana.
Ghāna > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1957.
Ghana > Social life and customs.
Ghana > History > To 1957.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Libation : "matters connected with our culture"
  • Homelands : "in search of past events"
  • Tools of the trade : "I was a blacksmith...before I became [a healer]"
  • Medicine, marriage, and politics : "assist this state to have progress"
  • Independences : "never mingled himself in local politics"
  • Anthropologies of medicine and Africa : "when the Whiteman first came"
  • Uncertain moments and memory : "our ancestral spirits, come and have drink".

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