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Article: El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900.(Review)
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El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. (Athens and Oxford: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 396. $19.95.)
In recent economic history, Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), including the rehabilitation and expansion of gold mining activities in Asante and especially of the Ashanti Goldfields Company (AGC) at Obuasi, has been pointed to as one of the significant successes of economic restructuring in Africa. In this book, however, the author argues that long before African entrepreneurs of the Ashanti Exploration Company extended activities to Obuasi in 1891, a ...
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