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Slavery, Memory and Religion in southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-present

Slavery, Memory and Religion in southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-present

Venkatachalam, Meera

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Series: International African Library, Book 49

African HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 1107519160
ISBN13: 9781107519169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 21 2017
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as Fofie, which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with modernity, trans-Atlantic conversations with diasporan Africans, and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural changes within the religious system - which resulted in the decline in Fofie's popularity - gradually altered the moral emphases on legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed.

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