Volume 18, Numéro 1, Pages 596-621
Authors : Mostefaoui Aziz .
In the Gold Coast, the traditional rulers had long been the medium through which the colonists ruled over the country. However, the relationships between the two sides (traditional rulers and the colonial government) were not always harmonious as contention between some chiefs and British officials was not infrequent during the second half of the nineteenth century. Likewise, the relationships between the Gold Coast educated Africans and the traditional rulers oscillated between cooperation, alliance, and dissension.
Gold Coast ; traditional rulers ; educated elite ; British colonial authorities