African Business Enterprise A Study of a Group of Traders in Kumasi Part II
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Date
1959-03
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Economic Research Division University College of Ghana Legon.
Abstract
The Akan peoples, to which the Ashanti belong, are closely allied
linguistically, share many common traditions, and are contained largely
within the boundaries of Ghana, in the central and southern areas of the
country. The matrilineal system embraces the Akans and sane other
geographically proximate groups. Most of the business men covered in this
survey were Akans and some of the problems of business development can be
related to -their matrilineal system of inheritance. These are not problems
which are shared by patrilineal tribes, so that in Gham they are largely
peculiar to the Akans, who constituted over 40% of t re total population in
the 1948 Census of Population. But since cocoa i s to a considerable extent
in t he hands of matrilineal peoples, they are among the wealthiest sections
of the nation, and a large proportion of Ghanaian business enterprise
certainly springs from them.
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Heritage Collection
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African Business, Traders, Akan