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Book SynopsisThe porcupine is the national symbol of the Asante. This is a case study in the social history of African politics. Placed in the context of so much theoretical and historical literature on class, ethnicity and nationalism, its significance is aimed beyond the borders of Asante, and Ghana.
Trade Review“Allman’s work far transcends other published efforts to comprehend the NLM. Not only does she provide a broader, more compelling historical perspective on the origins and nature of the movement, her richly detailed narrative simply has no equal in any of the existing scholarly accounts of Ghana’s march to independence, especially in the way it moves the focus beyond the political elite and onto popular mobilization and consciousness.”—Larry Yarak, Texas A&M University
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“As a microcosm of a larger state of affairs (that is, the political process almost anywhere) this study will be of interest not only to Ghanaianists or even to Africanists, but to others interested in Third World politics (and even, without too much imagination, those interested in First World politics).”—David Henige, University of Wisconsin–Madison
