Sexuality and prostitution among the Akan of the Gold Coast, c. 1650-1950

(70) Interview with Laurence Cudjoe, et al., Sekondi, 27 May 1992.

(71) Interview with Opanin Kofi Twi, Opanin Kweku Makuronka, Opanin Kwabena Nketsia and Egya Ekow Baidoo, Sekondi, 20 May 1992. (72) Nwosu, `Prospect of Curbing the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases'.

(73) See the papers and maps from the `Symposium on the City of Kumasi', Research Rev. Suppl., v (1993); interview and tour of `historic' Kumasi with Albert Mawere Poku, 20 Aug. 1994.

(74) Acquah, Accra Survey, 74.

(75) M. J. Field, Search for Security: An Ethno-Psychiatric Study of Rural Ghana (Evanston, 1960), 123. (76) `Petition from Ataa Baasi, Headwoman of the Baasi-women or Community in Kumasi, for herself and about 30 other women company', Kumasi, 1943: NAG (Kumasi), item 2,339.

(77) Phyllis M. Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (Cambridge, 1995), 139-40.

(78) The following argument owes much to an insightful discussion with Jean Allman.

(79) District Commissioner A. F. L. Wilkinson to A. C. Duncan-Johnstone Commissioner of Western Province, 30 July 1935: Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS Afr. S.713 (Wilkinson Papers).

(80) Memorandum, District Commissioner's clerk, 30 July 1935: ibid.

(81) Jean M. Allman, `Adultery and the State: Gender, Class and Power in Asante, 1800-1950' (paper presented at Harvard University, Mar. 1996).

(82) See T. C. McCaskie, `Accumulation, Wealth and Belief in Asante History: I, To the Close of the Nineteenth Century', Africa, liii (1983); T. C. McCaskie, `Accumulation, Wealth and Belief in Assute History: II, The Twentieth Century', Africa, lvi (1986).

(83) See Ashanti Pioneer, 27 Apr. 1955. Unfortunately, Atsa Baasi had passed away by the time I began fieldwork in Ghana in 1992. The information on her in the nationalist press is very sketchy.

(84) See Jean Allman, `Making Mothers: Missionaries, Medical Officers and Women's Work in Colonial Asante, 1924-1945', History Workshop II, no. 38 (Autumn 1994); Grier, `Pawns, Porters, and Petty Traders'.

(85) Roger Gocking, `Competing Systems of Inheritance before the British Courts of the Gold Coast', Internat. Jl African Hist. Studies, xxiii (1990); also his `British Justice and the Native Tribunals of the Southern Gold Coast Colony', Jl African Hist., xxxiv (1993).

(86) See, for example, Emmanuel Akyeampong, `What's in a Drink? Class Struggle, Popular Culture and the Politics of Akpeteshie (Locad Gin) in Ghana, 1930-1967', Jl African Hist., xxxvii (1996); Gareth Austin, `Capitalists and Chiefs m the Cocoa HoldUps in South Asante, 1927-1938', Internat. Jl African Hist. Studies, xxi (1988); Jarle Simensen, `Nationalism from Below: The Akyem Abnakwa Example', Communications from the Basel Africa Bibliography, xii (1975).

(87) Gareth Austin, `Human Pawning in Asante, 1800-1950: Markets and Coercion, Gender and Cocoa', in Toyin Falola and Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.), Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective (Boulder, 1994); Grier, `Pawns, Porters, and Petty Traders'.

(88) See esp. Jean Allman, `Of "Spinsters", "Concubines" and "Wicked Women": Reflections on Gender and Social Change in Colonial Asante', Gender and History, xxx (1991); see also her `Fathering, Mothering and Making Sense of Ntamoba: Reflections on the Economy of Child-Rearing in Colonial Asante' (paper presented at the African Studies Association Meeting, Orlando, 1995); also her `Rounding Up Spinsters'.