Книга: Clement Sefa-Nyarko «Life in Dagbon after the King s Murder and Crisis»

Life in Dagbon after the King s Murder and Crisis

Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing"

Mistrust and prolonged uncoordinated reconciliation processes after conflicts in most African traditional societies have severe consequences. These can potentially tear further apart, the social fibre which hold the societies together. Such unhealthy dynamics in post-conflict societies are more disastrous than the conflict itself, as social conflict theorists and ethnomethodologists posit. The Dagbon crisis of March 2002 which led to the murder of the King, Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II, exemplifies this. It took more than four years for the king to be buried, and to date, no funeral rite, which is a traditional prerequisite for possible enskinment of a successor, has been performed. In traditional terms, the Dagbon society is still mourning, and the pain of the crisis lingers on. The question this book seeks to answer, with quantitative (chi-square tests) and qualitative analysis is: How has the stalemate affected the social and religious relationships among the Dagomba people? Students... ISBN:9783659311444

Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2012)

ISBN: 9783659311444

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  • Dagomba people — Dagomba Total population 8,655,700 (2000) Regions with significant populations Ghana Languages Dagbani, Hausa, English Religion predominantly Sunni Islam, sometimes mix …   Wikipedia

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