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Pre-Colonial Era
Guardians of Sovereignty: The Fante Confederacy, the 1871 Mankessim Constitution, and the Dawn of Indigenous Self-Governance on the Gold Coast
- Fante Confederacy
- Mankessim Constitution
- Gold Coast
- Indigenous Governance
- Pre-Colonial Africa
- British Colonialism
- Ashanti Empire
- Self-determination
- African Legal History
- Central Region
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Chapter 1
The Fante People and Their Early Political Structures
Explores the origins, migrations, and traditional socio-political organization of the Fante people, detailing their early states, trade networks, and the foundational principles of their governance before the formal Confederacy.
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- Shumway, Rebecca. (2011). The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. University of Rochester Press.
- Casely Hayford, J.E. (1911). Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation. C.M. Phillips.
- Daaku, Kwame Yeboa. (1970). Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720. Oxford University Press.
- Agbodeka, Francis. (1971). African Politics and British Policy in the Gold Coast, 1868-1900. Northwestern University Press.
- Kea, R.A. (2000). Settlements, Trade, and Polities in the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- McCarthy, Mary. (1983). Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast. University Press of America.
