Interviews
Date: 2006
"My Mum never gave up."
Date: 2006
"My uncle saw that I was not interested in marriage, so one day he just called me and said 'I want you to be married to your brother [cousin],' and it worked."
Date: 2006
"As I understood the teachings of Islam, I pledged to let my fellow Muslims also know more about Islam and the Koran. That is why I prefer teaching."
Date: 2006
"It is only me, a woman selling these double axles here. My family are proud of me as a woman selling this, because it is not easy for some women to learn this trade."
Date: 2006
"Next time that I greet you, with the grace of God you will also be a Muslim."
Date: August 13, 2009
"Bicycles have helped me."
Date: August 13, 2009
"I know what is bad and what is good for me."
Date: August 13, 2009
"All that we need is unity."
Date: August 13, 2009
"First, be honest; second, be patient."
Date: August 13, 2009
"The religion of Islam is totally about peace"
Date: August 15, 2009
"You must be seen to be a good Muslim."
Date: August 15, 2009
"Islam teaches us to love one another."
Date: August 15, 2009
"People like coming here."
Date: August 15, 2009
"We don't advise that."
Date: August 15, 2009
"I have to respect these people."
Date: August 21, 2009
"I will drive peacefully; I will come home peacefully."
Date: August 21, 2009
"I'm a real Zongo man."
Date: August 21, 2009
"I don't think I can marry again."
Date: August 21, 2009
"Islam has taught me a lot."
Date: August 21, 2009
"They are not doing it for Islam."
Images
Date: 1979
Lifting basket on man's head.
Date: 1979
Blackboard with people waiting for cars.
Date: 1979
Silhouette of old lady at tomato yard.
Date: 1979
Northern men with tomato boxes selling in Bolgatanga market.
Date: 1979
Demolished small market mosque.
Date: 1979
Street scene in Adum.
Date: 1979
Customers standing, tomatoes on sack.
Date: 1979
People in rows of chairs in yam office in Kumasi Central Market.
Date: 1982
Side passage with men's shirts and tailors.
Date: 2006
The Allabar Women's Islamic School main classroom in front of house.
Date: 2006
Interviews on the floor of mosque -- women's side.
Date: 2006
Small girl standing behind praying women in the mosque.
Date: 2006
Women in chairs, men at table with books at the mosque.
Date: 2006
Hajia Habiba in her stall with double axles in Suame Magazine.
Date: 2009
Two women and one man from Togo sit in cloth stall in Kumasi Central Market.
Date: 2009
Street salon in front of a row of containers.
Date: 2009
Interviewing on the front porch of a compound house.
Date: 2009
Herbalist stall in Kumasi Central Market.
Date: 2009
Overview of Kumasi Central Market from above wholesale yards.
Date: 2009
Friday prayers at the Central Mosque in Kumasi.
Date: 2009
Young men in front of store in Dichemso, Kumasi.
Date: 2009
Commercial building in Old Zongo.
A photo album of six images showing the mosque in Kumasi and activities happening at the mosque.
Documents
Date: January 3, 1939
This wronged husband is appealing to the Asantehene because he feels the chief of his ethnic community in Kumasi has been unfair.
Date: October 13, 1946
Muslim traders settled freely in Kumasi after British conquest in 1898, but they had to negotiate a place for themselves politically and economically as a minority. Each immigrant ethnic group acknowledged a Kumasi headman, who maintained constructive relations with the Asante chiefly hierarchy and the British colonial authorities to protect their trading activities and legal traditions. Although most of the translations for this case will be from oral interviews, the paramount chief's archives contain valuable English language documents from earlier decades, such as petitions and court cases. The following sample document shows high-ranking palace officials mediating a conflict between male traders from Gao (Mali) and Asante women traders. Their rivalry over access to truckloads of yams arriving in Kumasi Central Market sparked several violent clashes between 1938 and 1952.