A New African Elite : : Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation / / Deborah Pellow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Pellow, Deborah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; Map of Ghana --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Dagbon in Context --; Chapter 2. Childhood Home --; Chapter 3. Getting Educated --; Chapter 4. Paths to Careers --; Chapter 5. Living in Between: Patronage and Hybrid Modernity --; Chapter 6. Conflict at Home, Enflamed from Afar --; Conclusion --; Epilogue --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800733794; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800733794
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Deborah Pellow.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university and post-graduate education, they relocate to Accra, the capital, hundreds of miles south. They crossed social and physical space and have become cosmopolitan while holding on to tradition and attachment to their home town. This bridge generation are patrons to those living up north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that they use the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.