Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c.1850-Present

Based on a decade of fieldwork in southeastern Ghana and analysis of secondary sources, this book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe 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 slave-holding past. The Anlo developed a sense of discomfort about the...