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Place of 'oaths' in the constitutional set-up of Asantearticle 1989 • Mensa-Bonsu, Henrietta J.
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
In this article, Mensa-Bonsu discusses the important role of oath swearing in Asante society. There are two kinds of oaths, religious (NSE) and secular (NTAM). In the religious oath supernatural sanction is invoked by calling a god to bear witness to...