Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, C.1850 to Recent Times

by Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku

• ISBN13: 9780852557778
• ISBN10: 0852557779
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: James Currey

Summary

The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes called the quintessential sea fishermen of West Africa, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. Since the mid-17th century they have attempted to domesticate the lagoons and the seas through the exploitation of salt and fish, the use of waterways as trade routes, and in the struggle to obtain security from lagoon flooding and sea erosion. This study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana. North America: Ohio U Press

Table of Contents

A Note on Sources	p. vi
List of Maps, Figures and Photogaphs	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Glossary	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Migration, Topography and Early Settlements in the Keta Lagoon Basin	p. 23
Abolition, British Influence and Smuggling in the Anlo Lowlands up to c. 1890	p. 49
Commercial Prosperity, Urbanization and Social Life in Early Colonial Keta	p. 75
Unstable Ecology Belief, Knowledge and the Enigma of Sea Erosion in Colonial Keta, 1907-32	p. 104
The Search for Space land Reclamation, Migrant Fishing, Shallot Cultivation and Illicit Liquor Distillation in Anlo, c. 1930-57	p. 127
Harbours and Dams Economic Development and Environmental Change in the Lower Volta Basin, 1957 to the Present	p. 159
Coastal Erosion, Political Ecology and the Discourse of Environmental Citizenship in Twentieth-century Anlo	p. 186
Living with the Sea Society and Culture in Contemporary Anlo	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 239
Maps, Figures and Photographs
A physical map of Anlo	p. 5
Slave Coast of West Africa	p. 31
Ghana showing administrative regions and Volta Lake	p. 171
High-water mark at Keta Town, 1907-29	p. 105
High-water mark at Keta Town, 1907-87	p. 206
Vodza beach, 23 July 1994	p. 22
Fort Prindsensten, c. 1893	p. 56
Alley in front of Fort Prindsensten, c. 1893	p. 56
Keta market-day, c. 1893	p. 77
Wuta-Missionhaus in Keta, c. 1893	p. 83
Chief James Ocloo's House, Keta, c. 1893	p. 83
Liquor shop in Keta, c. 1893	p. 84
St Michael's Cathedral, Keta, 18 October 1996	p. 124
Horse-mackerel catch, Adzido beach, 18 September 1996	p. 136
Shallots at Anloga market, 1996	p. 147
Flooded houses in Keta, September 1996	p. 173
Collapsed front of Fort Prindsensten, Keta, 4 September 1996	p. 205
NDC women supporters at the hogbetsotso festival, 2 November 1996	p. 212
Sea defence project exhibit, Anloga, 2 November 1996	p. 212
Displaced persons at Kedzikope, 23 August 1996	p. 220
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