Covering 500 years of Ghana’s history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the
Asante Kingdom and the Gold Coast’s importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana’s brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy—the
volume’s eighty selections emphasize Ghana’s enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging
its ethnic and cultural diversity and listening to its population’s varied voices. Readers will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers, traders, and the clergy to
intellectuals, politicians, musicians, and foreign travelers. With sources including historical documents, poems, treaties, articles, and fiction,The Ghana Reader conveys the multiple
and intersecting histories of Ghana’s development as a nation, its key contribution to the formation of the African diaspora, and its increasingly important role in twenty-first-century
global economy and politics.
