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Fanti customary lawsBook 1904 • Sarbah, John Mensah
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This study of Fanti customary law is the result of careful research through the judicial archives of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast Colony. Descriptions of native customs relating to family, marriage, divorce, property, land tenure, suretyship, ...Fanti national constitutionBook 1968 • Sarbah, John Mensah
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
Sarbah (b. 1864) was a Fante nationalist, lawyer, and scholar who wrote this major work on Fante history as a critique of British misrule in the Gold Coast. The local British administration was influenced by mercantile interests and acted in ignoranc...