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Home-Town: A Study of an Urban Centre in Southern Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

John Middleton
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Southern Ghana has for centuries been a region marked by continuous movement of population, both of groups and individuals; by ever-changing forms of social stratification; by urban centres of various kinds and sizes; and by trade with the outside world. Yet tradition and ‘custom’ are of great importance for the people. And despite marked economic and political development, kingship, matrilineal descent, and urbanism have remained central in most of the area in both national and local social systems.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 49 , Issue 3: Small Towns in African Development , July 1979 , pp. 246 - 257
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Copyright © International African Institute 1979

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