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The Dilemma of the British Government and the Anxiety of the Colonized Africans in Local Government Reforms in the Gyaman Traditional State of West Africa 1936-1957.
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British Gyaman, Local Government, Reforms, Anxiety, Dilemma
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ABSTRACT “The Existing Suma and Jaman Divisions formed part of the ancient Gyaman Kingdom whose traditional head, the Jamanhene lives over the border in Bondoukou, a circumstance which complicates both constitutional and administrative problems throughout the area and demand extra care in the formulation of proposal for reforming local government”- G.P. Hardy, British Colonial Officer. Gyaman was a medieval Akan Kingdom of West Africa which flourished in the last decade of the seventeenth century. The founders of the kingdom traced their origin from Akwamu, an Empire that flourished in the contemporary Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana. The Akwamu fugitives abandoned their original home on account of succession dispute. Having stopped for a while in such places as Asumegya, Kumawu and Suntreso (now located in the Ashanti Region), the migrants went further to carve out the Gyaman Kingdom to the northwest direction of the contemporary Bono administrative region of Ghana. When they successfully subdued the indigenous Kulango, Nafana, and the Gbin the Akwamu fugitives established a centralized government and imposed political and cultural hegemony on the autochthonous people. In 1893, the British and the French signed a treaty in Paris and partitioned Gyaman between each other. The partition was followed by the delimitation of the international boundary which located the Gyamanhene, the King of the Gyaman and a section of his kingdom in the French colonial territory of Cote d’Ivoire, while another portion was located in the British territory of the Gold Coast (Ghana). As the Gyamanhene was estranged from his subjects in the Ghanaian section, they lost a unifying link to hold them together. Provincial chiefdoms of the Gyamanhene that were located in Ghana saw one another as co-equals. Each did not countenance renouncing its sovereignty to become a subordinated chiefdom. Intrigues, jealousy, petty squabbles, scornful look reared their ugly heads in the relationships of the provincial chiefs. This situation complicated constitutional and administrative problem when the British formulated a program proposal for local government reforms in their sphere of influence.
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Dr. Joseph Kwadwo Agyemang (April-2026). The Dilemma of the British Government and the Anxiety of the Colonized Africans in Local Government Reforms in the Gyaman Traditional State of West Africa 1936-1957.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 11(4), a142-a168. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2604014.pdf
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Country: Sunyani West Municipal, Bono Region, Ghana
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