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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. 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.
“…provides a rich, illuminating account of how a historically rural, economically disenfranchised, and illiterate population in northern Ghana overcame the odds and became part of the Ghanaian urban, cosmopolitan elite in the space of a half generation.” • Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University
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
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