Ghana: Earth And Shadow - Substance, Medicine And Mobility In The History Of Ghana's Tongnaab ...

Ghana: Earth And Shadow - Substance, Medicine And Mobility In The History Of Ghana's Tongnaab Shrines John Parkera, 2011   Shrines associated with the deity Tongnaab in the Talensi region of northern Ghana formed the centre of a precolonial regional cult that encompassed a variety of peoples in the savannas of the Volta basin. Despite attempts by the British colonial state to destroy the shrines and to suppress ritual activity in the Tong Hills, by the 1920s the cult was spreading beyond...

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