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Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850Present (The International African Library, Series Number 49),Used
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Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the AnloEwe peoples from the 1850s. In particular, it focuses on a corpus of rituals collectively known as Fofie, which derived their legitimacy from engaging with the memory of the slaveholding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about their agency in slavery in the early twentieth century which they articulated through practices such as ancestor veneration, spirit possession, and by forging links with descendants of peoples they formerly enslaved. Conversion to Christianity, engagement with modernity, transAtlantic conversations with diasporan Africans, and citizenship of the postcolonial state coupled with structural changes within the religious system which resulted in the decline in Fofie's popularity gradually altered the moral emphases on legacies of slavery in the Anlo historical imagination as the twentieth century progressed.
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