MacLean, Lauren M. 2004. Empire of the Young: The Legacies of State Agricultural Policy on Local Capitalism and Social Support Networks in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. Comparative Studies in Society and History 46 (3):469-496.MACLEAN, L.M. (2004), `Empire of the young: The legacies of ...
The centre of the empire of Ghana lay about 500 miles (800 km) to the northwest of the nearest part of the modern state, and it is reasonably certain that no part of the latter lay within its borders. The claim that an appreciable proportion of modern Ghana’s people derived from ...