Africa

The story of Ghana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is, in
microcosm, the story of all colonial and post-colonial Africa. The indigenous
aspects of the pre-colonial economy–subsistence farming, rural-based living,
and the slave and natural minerals trade–were destroyed by the forced integration
of the country into the world economic order, giving way to what became
Ghana’s main (and virtually only) crop, cocoa.

“Pachocinski’s collection is a truly fascinating
read either for the dilettante or for the specialist. Additionally, this
opus is most important in that it organizes, codifies and preserves the
culture of the oral tradition.