Title:	The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa
Authors:	Margaret DRJ.R . GOODY
Keywords:	Industrial Man in Africa
Issue Date:	1972
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	Ghana is administratively divided into eight regions and the Accra Capital District (CD.) (see map 1, p. x). On the basis of geography, culture and level of development, these regions can be conveniently grouped to divide the country into five areas: the north includes Northern and Upper Regions, which were known as the Northern Territories in colonial days; the centre combines Brong/Ahafo Region with Ashanti, from which it was split after independence; the southwest also recombines two recently separated regions, Central and Western; the Accra CD. is in many ways part of Eastern Region though they are administratively separate; and lastly, the Volta Region, which became British Mandated Territory after the First World War and whose people voted to join Ghana at independence. Parts of the coast have been in contact with Europe since the Portuguese landed at Elmina in the fifteenth century; there were over 200 forts along the coast during the centuries of slave trading which followed. British 'protection' had been extended to the present northern border by 1898. Differences between the north and the rest of the country are greater than differences between central and southern areas; a north-south dichotomy will be used frequently in subsequent discussion.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10103
ISBN:	978-0-521-10022-9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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