Ghana: Information on whether the chief of Antoa, Nana Daasebre Yaw Kwarteng, died on 10 April 1994, on his successor, and on whether he has taken a wife; on the marriage customs of Akan chiefs, on whether a woman can refuse to become the stool wife, on the consequences of refusal and on whether state protection is available to women who refuse to become stool wives; and on the relationship of the chief of Antoa with the government
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1996 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GHA24282.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ghana: Information on whether the chief of Antoa, Nana Daasebre Yaw Kwarteng, died on 10 April 1994, on his successor, and on whether he has taken a wife; on the marriage customs of Akan chiefs, on whether a woman can refuse to become the stool wife, on the consequences of refusal and on whether state protection is available to women who refuse to become stool wives; and on the relationship of the chief of Antoa with the government, 1 June 1996, GHA24282.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acb840.html [accessed 3 November 2019] |
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Specific information on the chief of Antoa and on the Akan of Antoa could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
For general information on chiefs among the Ashanti (Asante), please consult the attached document. For additional information on the Akan, and on chieftaincy in Ghana, please consult the following Responses to Information Requests, which are available at Regional Documentation Centres: GHA19764.E of 21 February 1995; GHA17315.E of 6 May 1994; GHA17145.E of 9 May 1994; GHA14086 of 12 May 1993 and GHA10105 of 30 Janaury 1992. Please note that any markings in the attachments are on the originals.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Attachment
Busia, K.A. 1968. The Position of the Chief in the Political System of Ashanti. N.p.: Frank Cass, pp. 1-22.
Additional Sources Consulted
DIRB Ghana Country File. April-May 1994.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports. April-May 1994.
Ghana: A Country Study. 1972.
Indexed Media Review (IMR). April-May 1994.
Indigenous African Institutions. 1991.
Keesing's Record of World Events. April-May 1994.
New African. April-May 1994.
West Africa. April-May 1994.
On-line search of media articles (NEXIS)
One oral source did not provide information on the requested subject.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact oral sources.
Note on oral sources:
Oral sources are usually contacted when documentary sources have been exhausted. However, oral sources must agree to be quoted in a publicly available Response to Information Request. If they refuse, the Response will read "no information could be found among the sources consulted." Contacting oral sources is also subject to time constraints; for example, there are periods of the year when academics are unavailable. Long distance calls to Africa are often constrained by limited telecommunications capacity.
