Shaping Tradition (African Social Studies Series, 14)

Review 'Grischow studies the work of the West African Lands Committee, the important governorship of Sir F. G. Guggisberg, and the subsequent implementation of indirect rule between 1932 and 1936. Ultimately, working through "chiefs" was found to promote neither economic growth nor social welfare, and after WWII, "local government" as the "preferred administrative framework for development" gradually replaced indirect rule.' Summing Up: Highly recommended. CHOICE (August 2007) Product Description This historical study of development in Northern Ghana provides a fascinating new analysis of the colonial attempt to preserve African peasant communities in the face of economic transformation between 1899 and 1957. About the Author Jeff D. Grischow, Ph.D. (1999) in History, Queen's University, Canada, is Asistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published on the history of development and disease in colonial Ghana.