Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana - Ivor Wilks - Google Books

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In the late seventeenth century Wala emerged as a small state in what is now northwestern Ghana. Ivor Wilks traces the history of Wala from its beginnings to the present, paying particular attention to the complex relations between the Muslim and…