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The population of Ashantiarticle 1948 • Steel, R. W.
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This is an analysis of demographic trends in Ashanti during the first half of the twentieth century. Population distribution and density, settlement patterns, and land use are discussed, and maps and charts illustrating the textual data are provided....Ashanti Survey, 1945-46article 1947 • Fortes, Meyer et al.
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
This survey of geographical, anthropological and economic aspects of life in Ashanti during the 1940s was undertaken as an experiment in method by Mr. Fortes, an anthropologist, Mr. Steel, a geographer, and Miss Ady, an economist, in 1945-46. The bul...