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“We Sympathise with the Mines for Pilfery That Goes on but …”

African Interests in Gold Coast Mines, Protecting Gold, and the Politics of Legislation, 1907–1948

E. SASU KWAME SEWORDOR
African Economic History, December 2020, 48 (2) 138-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.48.2.138
E. SASU KWAME SEWORDOR
E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor () earned his first two degrees in History at the University of Ghana, Legon and currently is a doctoral student at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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vol. 48 no. 2 138-168
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https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.48.2.138
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African Economic History
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0145-2258
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  • Published online December 9, 2020.
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  1. E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor (esk.sewordor{at}gmail.com) earned his first two degrees in History at the University of Ghana, Legon and currently is a doctoral student at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
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    • Introduction
    • J. Mensah Sarbah et al: The G.M.P.P. Ordinance, and Making a Gold Industry, 1907–1909
    • Nana Ofori Atta and Co.: Towards a Further Amendment of the G.M.P.P. Ordinance, 1938
    • For Empire/Colony?: Surveilling Crime, Labor (Union) Anxiety, and Petitions, 1939–1948
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