The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast

Record summary

A. B. Ellis’s study of Tshi-speaking peoples contains discussions of Akan religious beings, sky and rain powers, thunder and lightning, ritual, and oral tradition. It can help researchers compare West African luminous motifs with later Asante ethnography and examine how early writers connected atmospheric phenomena to divine agency. The lead is bibliographically identifiable but chronologically complicated: the field material and original book are nineteenth-century, while a 1920 edition falls within the requested window. Ellis’s terminology and translations require substantial critical checking.