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- W2550427621 abstract "Akan customary law prohibits mention of slave ancestry and it is publicly claimed that indigenous slavery has been forgotten. In practice, customary law enables inheritance to be contested on grounds of slave ancestry and the descendants of slaves are stigmatized. In response, strategies of silence conceal knowledge. The example given is Ntam Kese , a reminiscent oath that sanctions communication between Fante family members by providing the metacommunicative instruction not to tell nonmembers. This locates the memory of indigenous slavery in Bellman’s “paradox of secrecy.” The thesis of this article is that strategies such as oath taking are being disrupted by nonmembers and that Ghanaian literature offers a solution to engagement with the taboo subject. It is argued that works by Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Ebow Daniel are didactic because they develop an understanding of West African slave ancestry by representing the history of indigenous slavery as a secret. resume: La loi coutumiere Akan interdit de mentionner toute appartenance a une lignee d’esclaves et il est publiquement proclame que l’esclavage indigene est tombe dans l’oubli. Dans la pratique, la loi coutumiere permet de contester un heritage a cause de l’existence d’ancetres esclaves, ce qui a pour effet de stigmatiser les descendants des esclaves. En reaction, les strategies de silence servent a dissimuler la connaissance. L’exemple donne fait reference a Ntam Kese , un serment d’evocation qui, chez les Fantis, sanctionne la communication entre les membres de la famille en intimant l’ordre de ne pas parler aux non-membres. Cette instruction replace la memoire de l’esclavage indigene dans le “paradoxe du secret” de Bellman. Cet article soutient que des strategies comme celle du serment sont perturbees par les non-membres et que la litterature ghaneenne offre une solution pour aborder le sujet tabou. Il fait valoir que les œuvres de Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Ama Ata Aidoo et Ebow Daniel sont didactiques parce qu’elles developpent une comprehension de l’esclavage ouest-africain en representant l’histoire de l’esclavage indigene comme un secret." @default.
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- W2550427621 title "Secrets of West African Slave Ancestry: Fante Strategies of Silence and the Didactic Narrative in Ghanaian Literature" @default.
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