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Nana's Durbar: Golden Jubilee at Larteh, Ghana |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: David Brokensha and Alfredo Varela |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 3,094 Words, 19,004 Characters |
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In December 1988, the chief of a small town in southern Ghana celebrated his Golden Jubilee, fifty years as chief of Larteh-Kubease. It was a remarkable event and illustrated many of the strengths of tradition in a contemporary West African state.
Larteh is a picturesque hill town in the state of Akwapim, forty miles north of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. It has a well-researched and colorful history, with a present population of 6,500 (125 women to every 100 men). The town's long main street is lined by stately mansions built from the profits of cocoa farms active around the turn of the century: "monuments to cocoa lands to the west" as Polly Hill described them (1963). The influences of German and Swiss missionaries of the Basel Mission in the late nineteenth century are still evide...
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...erely a reminder that, despite the Christmas festivities, Larteh--and Ghana--still face disturbing economic problems, including high unemployment. However, we are both convinced that the town and community of Larteh, with its curious blend of old and new, will survive, through its talent for accommodation, and the network of the Larterian diaspora linked by the common bond of their home town.
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