Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa: Natives and Strangers

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321 Index Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society, 115 Abramson, Allen, 128–29 access to land, 6, 9, 10, 11, 67, 82–83, 122, 128, 135–36, 159, 166, 167, 182, 198, 203, 211, 213; and exclusion, 247; and lotissement, 223–25; and rights of usufruct (droit de culture), 102, 148, 149, 160–62, 164, 226, 293–94n21, 293n29. See also labor theory of property; late-comers; property rights Accra, 63, 238, 268n95–96 agricultural expansion, 27–29, 31–32, 267–68n94, 275n66; and colonial pacification, 23, 66–67, 111, 116; commercial agriculture, 12, 115, 247, 248; and history in the making in the Black Volta region, 5–6, 23–25; and intraclan cooperation, 42–43, 48– 51; and mobility, 34, 47, 67, 78; and the translation of hunting boundaries into agricultural mental maps, 16, 127–28, 278n9. See also bush; farming and farm land; frontiersmen; hunters and hunting ; land tenure; migration; mobility; property rights allodial ownership, title, rights: alienability of, 17, 19, 111–12, 115–22, 126, 147, 215–16, 218; as central to the definition of belonging, 5–6, 17, 212–14, 246–49; and debates over first possession, 18–19, 36, 109–11, 178, 246, 248–49; and indirect rule, 118, 120; and national citizenship, 14, 17, 27, 211; and the office of chief, 121–22, 277n102. See also land titles; land transactions; lotissement; property rights Amanor, Kojo S., 13, 232, 249 ancestors: ancestor shrine(s) kpiin daar, 25, 38, 50, 51, 72, 84, 88, 262n37; ancestral land, 125, 128–29, 164, 199, 211; and first-comer status claims, 2–4, 91–92, 101, 103–4, 108–9, 112; founding ancestor as a lonely-hunter motif, 34–36, 114, 219; and the recitation of clan history, 38, 43–50, 59, 73, 74; sacrificing to, 71, 72, 83; slave descent, 263n43. See also earth-shrine stone(s); earth shrines; firstcomer narratives; first-comers; history; Kontol (founder of Lawra); late-comers; lineage(s); narratives of migration and settlement; Zenuo (founder of Nandom) Appadurai, Arjun, 5–6 arbili (sister’s sons), 47, 51, 97, 98, 106, 271–2n14; madebr–arbili relations, 62–63, 64–65. See also madebr (uncles) Armitage, C.H. (Chief Commissioner), 177 Armstrong, John A. (Lawra District Commissioner ), 285n21 Asante, 125, 198 Ashanti Protectorate, 21, 116, 182–83 autochthony, 14–15, 19, 83, 180; colonial models of, 23, 27, 167, 176–77, 182–84, 188, 210; earth shrines as symbols of, 26, 82–84; and ethnicity, 26, 197, 199, 205, 226–28; and political power, 18–20, 167, 180–82, 194–96, 197, 202–11, 248–49. See also ethnicity ; first-comers; natives Baadaateng, 22m1, 101–3, 105m2.2, 107–11, 112, 113, 114, 142m3.1 Babile, 43, 44, 45m1.1, 47–48, 50, 51, 178, 263n39, 264n52, 265n58 bagrritualsandsacrifices,38,43–44,50,59,73,74,264n51 Bagyele, 142m3.1 Bakalourou, 155m3.2 Bakoteng, 35, 60m1.4, 66, 98, 102, 103, 105m2.2, 107, 110, 113, 215m5.1, 269nn100, 103, 274nn37–28 Baloro, K.Y. (Lambussie paramount chief), 119, 201–3, 205, 233–34, 238, 277n102, 290n104 Bangwon, 140, 200–203, 200m4.2, 269n100, 272n17 Bapula, 272n32 Batane (patriclan), 75t1.2 Batié, 45m1.1, 46, 263n39, 264n52, 265n59 Bayagra (lands), 22m1, 151, 154–56, 155m3.2, 157, 158– 59, 273n30, 282n62, 282n66 Bayagra River, 92; as a boundary, 91m2.1, 130–31, 156 Be’en, 92 Bekuone (patriclan), 58, 59, 62, 62–63, 64–65, 66, 69, 73, 74, 75–76t1.2, 228, 267n90, 269n103 Bell, Duran, 10 belonging: and first-comer narratives, 2–5, 32, 213, 214, 232–33; and land ownership, 13, 14, 133–34, 166–67, 179–80, 246; and local community membership , 1–2, 5, 27, 72–78, 81, 168–72, 246; politics of, 14, 27, 63; property rights as central to, 5–6, 212–14, 246–49 Maps and tables are indicated by page numbers in italics followed by m or t. 322 | Index Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, 213 Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, 164, 220–21, 282n79 Benpo, 46 Bernstein, Henry, 13, 247 Berry, Sara, 7, 12, 125, 151, 210, 220, 249 Berwuole (patriclan), 75t1.2, 102–7 Bevuugang, 91, 91m2.1, 95–97, 100, 113, 136–37, 142m3.1, 143, 155m3.2, 273nn28–30, 278n7, 279n17 Bidomo (Bedama), 61–62, 92–94, 98, 267n87 Billaw, 161, 175 Bimbiile (patriclan), 61–62, 91, 93, 267n86, 267n90. See also Tambiile Birifor, 23, 184, 261n25, 267–68n94, 271n10 Black Volta (region), 22m1, 123m2.3; as a marginalized hinterland, 6–7, 20; agricultural expansion...