As was the case with many from the region, Chief Gandaa I, the father of S.W.D.K. (Kum) Gandah owed his chiefship to the colonial administration. When the political system changed in the 1950s, the people who had received formal schooling from the colonials were able to profit, and most of the early members of parliament from northern Ghana were the sons of chiefs. Kum Gandah exemplifies this experience. His autobiography, The Silent Rebel, provides...