... very distinguished scholarship, the writing is not only clear but stylishly crafted, and the story it tells is about a major aspect of modern Ghanaian political history... - , Professor of Modern History of Africa in the University of London

• Colonial rule and the chiefs; the politics of modernizing local government; the erosion of chiefly juridiction; the fusion of local and national politics; the politics of polarization; independence and the chiefs; crushing the chiefs; controlling the chiefs; making and unmaking the chiefs; "Loyal co-operation with the government".

... very distinguished scholarship, the writing is not only clear but stylishly crafted, and the story it tells is about a major aspect of modern Ghanaian political history... - , Professor of Modern History of Africa in the University of London

• Colonial rule and the chiefs; the politics of modernizing local government; the erosion of chiefly juridiction; the fusion of local and national politics; the politics of polarization; independence and the chiefs; crushing the chiefs; controlling the chiefs; making and unmaking the chiefs; "Loyal co-operation with the government".