Wa and the Wala : Islam and polity in northwestern Ghana
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Wa and the Wala : Islam and polity in northwestern Ghana
（African studies series, 63）
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. 234-239
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Its creation involved on the one hand warrior groups of Mande, Dagomba and Mamprusi origins, and on the other hand scholars from the centres of Muslim learning on the Middle Niger. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginnings to the present, paying particular attention to relations between the Muslim and non-Muslim elements in its population. He also examines the impact of Zabarima, Samorian, British and French intrusions into Wala affairs. By the use of orally transmitted traditions and recensions of these in Arabic and Hausa, he is able to show how the Wala themselves view their past. Wala is periodically convulsed by crises often resulting in communal violence. He suggests that the policy maker involved in the region's political problems needs a sound knowledge of Wala history and an understanding of the deeper structures of Wala society, especially in the context of official support for decentralization.
目次
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Preamble
- 1. Wa and the Wala
- 2. Wala origins: Lasiri and Kubaru
- 3. Wala origins: the 'alim as local historian'
- 4. Wa chronology: an exercise in date-guessing
- 5. Tajdid and jihad: the Muslim community in change
- 6. Colonial intrusions: Wala in disarray
- 7. 'Direct rule': Wala in the early twentieth century
- 8. Wala under 'indirect rule': power to the Na and schism in the umma
- 9. Review: the peculiarities of Wala
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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