Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana

by Richard Rathbone

In 1943, ritual murder was committed in a large African kingdom in the south of Ghana, then a colony of Great Britain. Palace officials and close kin of a recently deceased king had reputedly killed one of his chiefs in order to smooth the king's passage into the afterlife. This riveting study tells the story of the murder, the trials and appeals of those accused of the crime, and the effect of the case on politics in Ghana and Great Britain. In recounting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300055048
• ISBN13: 9780300055047
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"