Ivor Wilks

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Ivor G. Wilks (born 1928^[1]) is a noted British Africanist and historian, with a specialism in Ghana.

Wilks is an authority on the Ashanti Empire in Ghana. He has also written on Chartism in Wales, and the working-class movement in the nineteenth century. His work examines the nature of power and leadership, and the forms of collaboration and resistance.

Awards

ASA Distinguished Africanist Award 1998

Selected bibliography

1961 The Northern Factor in Ashanti History. Legon: Institute of African Studies.
1975. Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1984. South Wales and the Rising of 1839: Class Struggle as Armed Struggle. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
1986 (with N. Levtzion & B. Haight). Chronicles from Gonja: A West African Tradition of Muslim Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1989. Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1993. Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
2001. Akwamu 1640-1750: a Study of the Rise and Fall of a West African Empire. Department of History. Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

References

↑ Library of Congress Name Authority File

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Name	Wilks, Ivor
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Date of birth	1928
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