Author: Rathbone, Richard
Title: Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1993). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiii,209 pp. Textual map & photos. Minor rubbing, & slight binding soil, VG. ¶ An account of the 1944 Kibi "Ritual Murder Case". Contents: The Land & its Peoples; The King; Transforming the Inherited State; The Murder; The Trial & the Sentence; Appeals & Confusions; Travesties & Tragedies; Meanings, Motives & Probabilities; The Aftermath.

Keywords: Legal Anthropology, Kibi Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa, Akan Ethnography, Colonial Law, Criminology, Murder Trials, British Colonies