Education in the Gold Coast

The July journal contained articles on African higher educationby a number of distinguished authorities, all European. Thewriter of the following (slightly abridged) lecture is an African,Principal of the Mfantsipim College, and William Paton Lecturerat Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham. He gave it the subsidiarytitle of Growing Pains and Growing Points when he deliveredit at the Royal Empire Society on the 29th June, Lord Haileybeing in the chair.     

Gold Coast Information

Mr. Wilson is Government Information Officer—a title nowchanged to Public Relations Officer—in the Gold Coast,where he has had fifteen years of experience in education. Thearticle is abridged from an interview which he broadcast tothe West Indies in April with the Jamaican writer Una Marson,now on the staff of the B.B.C.     

试析吧国华人公堂的盟神审判

盟神审判是中国民间一种处理民间冲突和争议的风俗.随着中国移民移居东南亚,这种风俗也随之传人印尼巴达维亚华人社会,成为18、19世纪当地华人社会处理纠纷的一种法律手段.<吧国公堂(吧城华人公馆)档案丛书>的<公案簿>第一辑,收录了多种有关盟神审判的案例.本文从当时吧城华人的思想信仰、荷兰殖民统治的政策以及中国的影响等方面来探讨其存在的背景,并根据<公案簿>的案例分析吧城盟神审判的特点及其历史作用.     

Insult as an Offence in African Customary Law

The writer, who is Simon Research Fellow in Manchester University,is author of Nigerian Land Law and Custom, and has recentlypaid a visit to Uganda.     

The Gold Coast--An Historical Approach

This article represents the basis of a lecture at the RoyalEmpire Society on the 26 February, with Sir Cosmo Parkinsonin the chair. Mr. Carltand is a member of the Gold Coast Administrationseconded to the Colonial Office. He prefaced his remarks onthe main factors in the life of the Gold Coast with an accountof earlier history, from the Portuguese in the 15th centuryto the present day. In the immediate past he detected four majorphases: the Government of Captain Maclean, representing theLondon Committee of Merchants, between 1828-42; the period ofthe 1890's, when cocoa was introduced, and gold mining begun;the period after the 1914 war and the governorship of Sir GordonGuggisberg, when Takoradi Harbour, Achimota College, and thehospital at Korle Bu were all built; and the present period,which may be the greatest of all.     

Resource Rumours in the Bolivian Andes: The Potential of Gold in Community Land

This article discusses the rumour of gold in an indigenous, Andean community. As the rumour circulated, it triggered speculation regarding potential claims to the gold, as well as concerns about how extraction should be managed in order to maintain a good relationship with the animate landscape. Specifically, the rumour tested the previous flexibility of community rules concerning land access, as well as assigning more responsibility to the rotated local leadership position. Rumours offer insights into the social and emotional contexts within which resource extraction takes place, while at the same time playing an important part in shaping these very same contexts.     

The Discovery of Gold in the Orange Free State and its Economic Effects

This represents the bulk of a joint lecture at the Royal EmpireSociety on the 25/A June under the chairmanship of the HighCommissioner jor the Union of South Africa. Besides his controlof De Beers, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer is the founder of the Anglo-AmericanCorporation, one of the leading Houses on the Rand.     

African Customary Law and Common Law in South Africa: Reconciling Contending Legal Systems

ABSTRACT

The multicultural fabric of contemporary South African society is the result of the interaction between various and differing historical narratives, each with their own knowledge system, which led to the emergence of legal pluralism. The common law and African customary law are the major legal systems. A historical- political construction of the common law indicates that it has been influenced by the dominant political power. From an historical perspective, the contraction and expansion of the common law is due to its continuous deconstruction, whereby new knowledge is introduced into the existing system. Section 173 of the Constitution of 1996 provides that the judiciary is now responsible for developing the common law. However, under the new constitutional dispensation, the reconstruction of African customary law that is now on an equal footing with the common law indicates that it is being remodelled to fit the mould of Western legal values. In order to achieve jurisprudential parity between the two systems, the humanistic values of ubuntu should be adopted to infuse African equity into the common law. The realisation of this objective is possible if an interpretative paradigm is recognised as a means of ameliorating the legalistic consequences of the prevalent positivist paradigm. Within an African Renaissance model, adherence to an interpretative paradigm would advance restorative justice, and curriculum transformation along with research and development that resonate African/South African values. This would instil new vigour into the law and the Constitution that is seemingly becoming stulted due to its adherence to Western values.     

Re‐articulating Identity: The Shifting Landscape of Indigenous Politics and Power on the Ecuadorian Coast

The Levantamiento Indígena of 1990 was a defining moment in the advancement of indigenous politics in Ecuador. Following the uprising of 1990, scholars have paid close attention to the politics of identity and indigenous representation in Ecuador with the main focus being placed on the highland and Amazonian regions of the country. Based on fieldwork conducted in Ecuador's Manabí province, this article provides preliminary insight into the growth of an indigenous discourse on the Ecuadorian coast. I focus on the process of re‐indigenisation in the coastal community of Macaboa. This research is significant because while a great deal of scholarly attention has been paid to indigenous movements in Ecuador's highland and Amazonian regions, indigenous politics on the coast have gone largely unnoticed. The case outlined in this article is emblematic of the shifting nature of identity and the way in which ethnic discourses are increasingly being adopted by marginalised groups in their attempts to negotiate with the state.     

The Global Gold Mining Industry,Junior Firms,and Civil Society Resistance in Guatemala

Over the past two decades, the gold mining industry has increased its activity in Latin America. Growing contestation and conflict around gold mining projects have accompanied this shift. This article draws from the case of Guatemala, where metal exploration has grown by 1,000 per cent since 1998, to illustrate how the proliferation of small ‘junior’ firms – together with neoliberal investment policies and suitability of mineralisation – set the stage for fly‐by‐night gold mining and, therefore, intense resistance from host communities to mineral development.