Kwasi Konadu Religion Books sku-127339343 Hardcover

Kwasi Konadu's hardcover Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation is listed under Religion & Religious Studies Books, SKU sku-127339343. It tells the story of Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ, a blacksmith, farmer, healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes and custodian of shared values in his Ghanaian community.

Konadu uses Dᴐnkᴐ's life and experiences to tell the story of his community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth. That history includes colonial Ghana's cocoa boom, decolonization, and political and religious parochialism.

Dᴐnkᴐ touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, though neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. His memory persists through his intellectual and healing legacy.

The book presents his community's organization around spiritual forces as a non-national, decolonized example and urges scholars to attend to the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.