Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana

by Ivor Wilks

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521894344
• ISBN13: 9780521894340
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"