Mondes Akan/Akan Worlds1. Identité et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale / Akan Worlds. Identity and Power in West Africa

The volume includes articles dealing with different aspects and areas of the Akan cluster of peoples, in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The contributors to the volume are representative of both the anglophone and francophone traditions of historical and anthropological studies on this part of Africa. Ancestral migrations, State formation, historic political organisation, kinship, ritual, colonial conquest, post-independence, chieftaincy are among the topica analysed in the volume,