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Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Between the Sea and the Lagoon: an Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to Recent Times.(Book Review)
Africa, March, 2003 by Lawrence, Benjamin
EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG, Between the Sea and the Lagoon: an Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to Recent Times. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2002, 256 pp., US$44.95, 0 8214 1408 9 hard covers, US$22.95, 0 82141409 7 paperback.
In Between the Sea and the Lagoon the author presents an overview of recent ecological and social change in a remote and neglected region of West Africa. This is an exceedingly original sweep of socio-economic history, with an environmental focus, rich in empirical data. It is packaged as seven ...
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