Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana

Brandi Simpson Miller is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and the Assistant Director for the Wesleyan College Center for Social and Racial Equity, Georgia, USA.

• 1. In Search of Ghanaian Food.- 2. Ghana’s Eco-Culinary Zones.- 3. The Proper Meal.- 4. The Asante and Diplomatic Use of Food - A Symphony of Signals.- 5. Gold Coast Foodways in the Nineteenth Century.- 6. Savanna Foodways.- 7. Colonialism and Local Foodways.- 8. Globalisation and Local Foodways in Ghana.

“Brandi Simpson Miller's book was much needed to liberate the Western dominated-discourse of food (in) security in Ghana and other (West) African countries. She provides an excellent understanding of the historical developments of Ghana's food ways that should stand as the starting point for similar research.” (Chiara Scheven, anthrobookforum.americananthro.org, February 27, 2024)