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Independence Movement
The Silent Architects of Freedom: Ghanaian Market Women and the Economic Engine of Independence (1930-1957)
- Market Women
- Ghana Independence Movement
- Economic Nationalism
- Women's Empowerment
- Colonialism
- Convention People's Party (CPP)
- Accra Riots 1948
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Gold Coast
- Makola Market
- Grassroots Mobilization
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Chapter 1
The Enduring Power of the Market: Women's Economic Hegemony in Colonial Gold Coast
Explores the historical foundations of market women's economic dominance, their extensive trading networks, and their control over local commerce, which predated and persisted through colonial rule, establishing them as significant economic actors.
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- Hill, Polly. (1963). The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana. Cambridge University Press.
- Robertson, Claire. (1984). Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana. Indiana University Press.
- Tsikata, Dzodzi. (2009). Gender, Land and Labour Relations and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Third World Quarterly.
- Austin, Dennis. (1964). Politics in Ghana 1946-1960. Oxford University Press.
- Manuh, Takyiwaa. (1993). Women, the State and Society in Ghana. Woeli Publishing.
- Watson Commission Report. (1948). Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Disturbances in the Gold Coast. Colonial Office, London.
