Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa : Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire

Omtale

This book investigates the history of political and economic change in similar Akan villages on either side of the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border. Drawing on extensive village-based fieldwork and archival research, Lauren M. MacLean examines the historical construction of the state role in mediating risk at the local level.