Making Men in Ghana

Index

311 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. ababawa/mmabawa (young woman before giving birth), 120, 155 Abene, town of, 8, 31 aberanteε (young man), xvii, 35, 154, 155; advised by elders, xviii, 17; apprenticeship and, 54; mock marriages and, 120 aberewa (old woman), 155, 156, 265n11 Aberewa cult, 7, 85 Abetifi, town of, xv, xvi, xix, 18, 28; ahenfie (chief ’s palace), 178; chiefs in, xvii; dancing in, 122; elders in, xix–xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii–xxv, xxiv, xxvi, 5; football in, 73; founding of, 8; ivory market, 21, 22; Kwawu ridge location of, 5; Manem (old section), 31, 45, 50, 62, 75, 141, 161; native tribunal, 127, 134, 144; Presbyterian education in, 60–61; Tena matriclan, 20; wards, 35; wealthy traders in, 167. See also Christian Quarters (Abetifi) Abetifi Boarding School, 65–66, 74, 75, 87, 88, 137 Abetifi Divine Word Language Center, xv Abetifi Training College, 7 Aboakye, E. A., 81 abosom (lesser gods), xxvi, xxxii, 8, 24, 62, 123; communication with, 180, 221n11; libations to, 205 abosomfoɔ (priests), 132–33, 174, 177 abusua (matrilineage), xvi–xvii, 20, 23, 32, 49; Akan customary marriage and, 38, 115, 116, 118, 125, 131, 133, 134; akrakyefoɔ and, 84, 114; big men and, 167, 169; children and, 17, 18, 28–33, 32, 173; Christian marriage and, 11, 138, 139; debts and, 42, 43; elderhood and, xx, xxvi, 51, 153, 162, 196; European schools and, 56, 57; funerals and, 148, 184, 185, 188, 189, 190; lesser gods of, 24; literacy and, 113; matriclans and, 8; paramount chiefs and, 156– 58; personal names and, 69; politics and, 104; Presbyterian masculinity and, 13, 49, 70; schools and, 71, 234n33; senior masculinity and, 82, 97 abusuapanyin (lineage head), 117, 179, 189 Accelerated Development Plan in Education (1951), 150 Accra, xv, xx, 1, 3; ahyiko dance in, 43, 44; apprenticeships in, 49; army life in, 94; consumer goods from, 128; High Court, 100; police, 95; political violence in (1948), 102–104; railways and, 55; traders in, 26, 186, 187, 224n37 Acheampong, Kwawu C manhene Akuamoa, 69, 90 Acheampong, Paulina Ago, 43, 138 Achimota, Prince of Wales College, 72, 111, 240n118, 245n25 Ackermann, Elisabeth, 70 Adae celebrations, xvii Addae, Kwasi, 177 Addo, E. K., xvi, 5, 47, 110, 112, 140, 168; album of, 141; apprenticeship of, 50, 51, 54–55; as benefactor of Rev. Asante, 165, 201; big-man status of, 169, 172–73; childhood memories, 25– 26; children of, 136–37; community service and, 180; death of, 190–91; on funerals, 187, 188, 189–90; introduction to, xx, xxii, xxiii; as krakye (clerk, scholar), 83, 86, 88–91, 113; legacy of, 193–94; marriages of, 134, 135–38; on mission teachers, 66; political career, 170–72; on political events, 100, 104 Addo, E. V. Osei (neighbor of J. A. Wahyee), 37, 120–21, 124 Addo, Kwabena Ofori Atta (son of E. K. Addo), 190, 191, 193, 194 Addo, P. K. Anim, 167–69, 169–70, 172, 197 Addo, Paulina, 62–63 Addow, Eugene R., 100, 117–18, 119, 121, 125 312 Index adehyeε (royals of stool/office), 8, 228n79 Adofo, Kwabena (uncle of Rev. Asante), 29, 30–31, 60, 141 Adofo, Kwadwo (uncle of Kofi Ankoma), 32, 95, 97, 162 adolescence, 155 Adoma, Florence, 161 Adonso village, 27 Adu, Rev. C. M., 60, 68 Adu, E. S., 81 Adu, Kwaku (father of E. F. Opusuo), 27, 61, 69 Aduamoa, town of, 8, 58, 132 aduanan (forty-day cycle), 33 adult masculinity, 11, 12, 15, 45, 126, 140; fatherhood and, 146, 151, 155; marriage and, 152, 257n48; resilience of Akan culture and, 199. See also masculinity; senior masculinity adultery, 12, 18, 214n19; dances and, 123; fees paid for, 115, 145; native tribunal and, 134; power and, 257n42 aduro owura (medicine person), 51 aduru (medicine), 7, 174, 176 adwuma (work), 20, 32, 65, 221n13; herbal knowledge, 24; hunting profession, 21. See also work afahye festival, 31, 172, 180, 183, 225n44 afoofi (leisure), 34, 37, 41, 45, 47; boarding schools and, 65; time and, 33 Afram Plains, xvii, 5, 20, 21, 52; cocoa plantations in, 176–77, 197; Kwawu Water Project and, 167–68 Afram River, 19 Africa, colonial, 2, 47, 48, 68, 72, 202; historiography of, 201; marriage in, 141; “middle figures” in, 84–85; scouting in, 75–76 Africa, postcolonial, 2, 202 Africa, precolonial, 14, 19, 220n4 African Americans, 72, 238n92 African Universal Church, 105 Africanists, 13 Africanization, 86, 103, 109–11, 166 Aggrey, J.E.K., 88, 242n131, 245n25 Agogo, town of...