Gandah-yir: the house of the brave ; the biography of a northern Ghanaian chief (ca. 1872 - 1950)
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| adam_text | TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
EDITOR S
INTRODUCTION
iii
PREFACE
1
CHAPTERONE
6
Gandah s
ancestors
migration
to
Birifu
·
Birifu
settlement history ° feuds
·
birth of
Gandah-yir
(ca. 1872) °
explanation
ornarne °
Gandah s
adolescence
CHAPTER TWO
14
Arrival of the white man in Birifu (ca.
1890) ·
Birifu elders resistance
-indigenous beliefs as religion ° Gandah s training as a farmer, warrior,
hunter,xylophonist and
bagre
initiate
»
Gandah s first marriages ° British
appointment of the first Birifu Naa Derkota
CHAPTERTHREE
22
Death of Gandah s wife Manduor
(1912)
° divination of causes of Manduor s
death
·
Gandah s revenge against the purported witch
·
Gandah s arrest, con¬
viction and imprisonment
(1912) ·
life in the Tamale prison ° Gandah s release
and return to Birifu
(1915-16)
CHAPTER FOUR
29
Birifu Naa Derkota s abdication and Gandah s enskiranent as chief
(1917) ·
the
new chiefs rules for the village
»
local concepts of adultery
-
labour on the
chief s farm ° Gandah s generosity ° boundaries of the Birifu chiefdom
«
the
Lawra District s chiefs conferences (1910S-1920S)
·
Gandah as father and
husband ° Gandah s shrines and protective medicines
CHAPTER FIVE
38
Illness of Gandah s wife Poonaa ° Gandah s medical knowledge and spiritual
power
·
the Lompo fetish
·
Gandah s relation with Lawra District Commis¬
sioner Duncan-Johnstone
(1917-21) »
the villagers greeting rituals for
colonial visitors ° Gandah s role in border policing and control of meningitis
(1918)
CHAPTERSIX
46
The visit of Princess Marie-Louise to Birifu
(1925) ·
the White Fathers
misguided attempts to convert the Birifu villagers
(1929-30) ·
Gandah s
Kukpenibie shrine and its Ashanti visitors and followers (1930S-1950S)
CHAPTER SEVEN
55
Many deaths in Gandah s house and the search for their causes
·
Lawra Naa
Lobi
Binni s death
(1934) ·
chiefly succession in Lawra ° Poonaa s death
·
divination and
witch-hunt
·
imprisonment of suspects by the District Commissioner
CHAPTEREIGHT
62
The first primary school in Lawra
(1919) ·
the establishment of the Lawra
Confederacy Primary School
(1935) ·
the incorporation of Birifu into Lawra Division
(1934) -
enrolment of the first students ° the author s attempt to follow his school-
going brothers
·
Gandah s involvement in the Lawra Naa s succession
CHAPTERNINE
71
The tsetse fly eradication campaigns ° Gandah s role in clearing the banks of Birifu s
rivers and the sacred grove (late
1930s) »
Gandah s children
»
the division of labour
in Gandah s house
·
farm work and tending the cattle« conflicts among the school-
going brothers ° the author s escape to Wa, return and punishment
CHAPTERTEN
80
The murder of an Ashanti Kukpenibie visitor
(1940) ·
police enquiries ° Gandah as
suspect
«
the court case and Gandah s acquittal
(1941) ·
trial farms and the
establishment of the Babile agricultural station
(1941-42) ·
Gandah s role in the
recruitment of soldiers for World War
Π
·
sacrifices for the soldiers safe return and
the returned soldiers gratitude
CHAPTERELEVEN
90
The great famine (early
1940s) ·
Gandah s role in providing the villagers with food
stuffs
»
the establishment of the Birifu Day School
(1946) »
road maintenance labour
«
Gandah s appointment as road overseer
(1945)
° the collection of head tax and other
taxes
CHAPTERTWELVE
97
Gandah s deterioriating health (late
1940s) ·
the search for medical treatment in
Kumasi
·
the punishment of an Ashanti adherent of Kukpenibie for failing to keep
his promises ° the author s work in Obuasi and Kumasi
CHAPTERTHIRTEEN
103
The Gandah brothers transport and retail business
(1948-50)
the death of
Birifu Naa Gandah
(1950) ·
mourning and funeral rites
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
ш
The transfer of Gandah s three-inch chiefs medallion to the Lambussie chief
-tensions over the succession to the Birifu skin
·
conflicts among the Gandah
brothers over business ° the final funeral rites for Gandah
(1951)
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