A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

Deborah Pellow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-409-5 (ISBN)

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Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university and post-graduate education, they relocate to Accra, the capital, hundreds of miles south. They crossed social and physical space and have become cosmopolitan while holding on to tradition and attachment to their home town. This bridge generation are patrons to those living up north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that they use the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Deborah Pellow is Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, where she was Director at the Maxwell African Scholars Union. Publications include Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community (Chicago, 2008).

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1. Dagbon in Context

Chapter 2. Childhood Home

Chapter 3. Getting Educated

Chapter 4. Paths to Careers

Chapter 5. Living in Between: Patronage and Hybrid Modernity

Chapter 6. Conflict at Home, Enflamed from Afar

Conclusion

Epilogue

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 22 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-409-3 / 1836954093
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-409-5 / 9781836954095
Zustand	Neuware