Custom and Coups: a Juridical Interpretation of Civil Order and Disorder in Ghana
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 24 (1) , 69-99
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00006753
Abstract
The rich empirical and historical evidence available on the various popular movements that arose in the Gold Coast, especially since the turn of the nineteenth century, mainly in order to demand political and economic reforms,1 as well as the implications of the post-colonial cycle of military coups d'état and counter-coups in Africa, is critically re-analysed and reinterpreted to advance the following related theses:Keywords
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