History

The History of West Africa at a Glance
by Mia Sogoba (7 September 2018)

http://www.culturesofwestafrica.com/history-of-west-africa/

The Kingdom of Asante (BBC Four, 2012)

https://youtu.be/4lXyh7Bg8Oo

Slavery

H. Nii-Adziri Wellington

Stones Tell Stories at Osu, Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Amerley Treb Books, 2nd edition, 2017)
ISBN 9781894718141

https://booknook.store/product/stones-tell-stories-at-osu/

Thorkild Hansen

He wrote the Slave trilogy, for which he received the Nordic Council Prize, originally published in Danish between 1967 and 1970 and translated into English by Kari Dako of the University of Ghana, Legon

  • Coast of Slaves, 2006 (Slavernes kyst, 1967)

  • Ships of Slaves, 2002 (Slavernes skibe, 1968)

  • Islands of Slaves, 2005 (Slavernes øer, 1970)

http://www.africanbookscollective.com/authors-editors/thorkild-hansen

Tradition and Rites

Child naming ceremony

Ghanaian name

Wikipedia article

Puberty Rites

Dipo or Otofo-dipo for the Krobo
Bragoro for the Ashanti

Article in GhanaWeb

Funeral Rite

Fantasy coffins

Celebrating death in style: Ghana's fantasy coffins
by Munachim Amah and Ized Uanikhehi, CNN (19 January 19 2018)

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/29/africa/ghana-fantasy-coffin/

Concealed Art The Figurative Palanquins and Coffins of Ghana by Regula Tschumi (Till Schaap Edition, 2014)
ISBN 9783038280996

https://regulatschumi.ch

Queen mothers

Wikipedia article

Folktales

Anansi

Wikipedia article

Fetishism

Trokosi

My stolen childhood: understanding the trokosi system - BBC Africa Eye documentary
by BBC News Africa (14 May 2018)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44209991

Sakawa

The Sakawa Boys: Internet Scamming in Ghana
by Vice (5 April 2011)

https://youtu.be/o26Eks801oc

 

Time Out Accra

Ghana by Philip Briggs (Bradt, 2016)

ISBN: 9781784770341

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Ghana’s Heritage of Culture by Kofi Antubam (First edition 1963)

Republished 2018, ISBN 978 9988 2 8829 7