Clarification

In "'Come and Try': Towards a History of Fante Military Shrines" (vol. 40, no. 3 PP. 12-35), the sidebar on p. 12 stated that "the images in this article constitute, as far as I am aware, a complete corpus of posuban." This should have read "a complete corpus of monumental posuban," the topic of the article. I did not include the large array of more modest cane-fenced or cement-walled trees, also called posuban. I also did not include unfinished examples at Komenda, Elmina, Egyaa, Abandze, Saltpond, and elsewhere, some of which have been abandoned in mid-construction due to land disputes, religious interventions, or financial considerations. Since writing, Courtnay Zimmerman at the University of Florida has brought to my attention an obscure and privately circulated monograph on the shrines in the state of Anomabu by Nyanfueku Akwa titled Anomabu: Asafo Companies and Their Shrines Alive (Ghana/Netherlands: Luna Marketing, 2005).

Akwa illustrates a relatively early shrine at Oboadze, which he dates to 1933 (p. 21) and another example at Nyanfeku-Ekroful, which he dates to 1970 (p. 23). I would like to thank the many colleagues who responded to this article with accounts of their own encounters with and reflections on asafo posuban.

Doran H. Ross

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