Author:
Konadu, Kwasi, author.
ImprintDurham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Descriptionviii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note:Libation : "matters connected with our culture" -- Homelands : "in search of past events" -- Tools of the trade : "I was a blacksmith...before I became [a healer]" -- Medicine, marriage, and politics : "assist this state to have progress" -- Independences : "never mingled himself in local politics" -- Anthropologies of medicine and Africa : "when the Whiteman first came" -- Uncertain moments and memory : "our ancestral spirits, come and have drink".
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index.
Note:"Kwasi Konadu centers the life of Ghanaian healer, spiritual leader, and farmer Kofi Donko (1913-1995) to tell the biography of his community and how they navigated the changes from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth."
