African Market Women Seven Life Stories from Ghana

African Market Women Seven Life Stories from Ghana /

In these lively life stories, women market traders from Ghana comment on changing social and economic times and on reasons for their prosperity or decline in fortunes. Gracia Clark shows that market women are intimately connected with economic policy on a global scale. Many work at the intersection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Gracia
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Market towns > Ghana > Kumasi.
Women merchants > Ghana > Kumasi.
Women, Akan > Ghana > Kumasi > Economic conditions.
Women, Akan > Ghana > Kumasi > Social conditions.
Women, Ashanti > Ghana > Kumasi > Economic conditions.
Women, Ashanti > Ghana > Kumasi > Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Economic history
Market towns
Politics and government
Social conditions
Women merchants
Kumasi (Ghana) > Politics and government.
Kumasi (Ghana) > Economic conditions.
Kumasi (Ghana) > Social conditions.
Ghana > Kumasi
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; AFRICAN MARKET WOMEN; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Trading Lives; 1. ABENAA ADIIYA; Portrait: An Adventurer on the Road; Story: Patience and Pleading; 2. MAAME KESEWAA; Portrait: A Quiet Saver; Story: Someone Has Set Herself a Goal; 3. MADAME ATAA; Portrait: A Good Citizen; Story: A Man Would Marry You Properly; 4. AMMA POKUAA; Portrait: A Market Daughter; Story: All of Them Depend upon Me; 5. AUNTIE AFRIYIE; Portrait: A Shrewd Dealer; Story: If You Have Wisdom, You Can Do Many Jobs; 6. SISTER BURONYA; Portrait: An International Observer.
  • Story: If I Had Money, I Would Go7. MAAME NKRUMAH; Portrait: A Grateful Sister; Story: She Has Cared for Me and My Children; Conclusion: Little by Little; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; References; Index.

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