Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order

Ivor Wilks's study is a major historical account of the Asante state's political structure and administration in the nineteenth century, built from the documented historical record of Asante governance rather than from religious ethnography, and this atlas states its actual scope honestly: it covers religious institutions only where they bear directly on political structure, not as a dedicated study of Akan religion in its own right. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with Wilks's specific claims. Use it for established historical facts about Asante political organization; a dedicated study of Akan religious practice needs its own separate source.