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common language, similar customs, and lineage classifications. See Patrick Nkrumah, The
Interaction Between Christianity and Ashanti Religion 12-13 (1992) (unpublished Ph.D
dissertation, Drew University).
[FN49]. Ghana: A Country Study, supra note 47, at 85. The Ewe comprise 11.9% of the
population. E.A. Boateng, Ghana: Physical and Social Geography, in Africa South of the Sahara
2000, at 517, 530 (1999) (citing 1991 census data). The Ewe in Ghana live in three areas: Anlo,
Tungu, and the Volta Region. The Ewe of the Volta Region generally live in either the Kpando
district or the Ho district. A.K.P. Kludze, Ewe Law of Property 5 (1973) [hereinafter Ewe Law].
[FN50]. Dankwa, supra note 41, at 7.
[FN51]. Id. This does not include the Lobis, the Tampolese, Vagales, and Lobi-Dagarti in
northern Ghana, which are matrilineal. Kludze, supra note 41, at 247.
[FN52]. Dankwa, supra note 41, at 7. The Ga-Adangbe are 7.8% of Ghana's total population.
Boateng, supra note 49, at 530.
[FN53]. Dankwa, supra note 41, at 7. Guan communities and their ethnic subgroups are found in
both northern and southern Ghana. Ghana: A Country Study, supra note 47, at 86. Guans
comprise 11.9% of the population. Boateng, supra note 49, at 530.
[FN54]. Christine Oppong, Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian
Senior Civil Servants 29 (1974).
[FN55]. Id.
[FN56]. Gwendolyn Mikell, Cocoa and Chaos in Ghana 247 (1989); see also Baden et al., supra
note 4, at i (claiming that while matrilineal systems have potential to grant greater access to
resources for women, they do not guarantee such access).
[FN57]. Oppong, supra note 54, at 29.
[FN58]. Id. at 29, 33. His own children, of course, are not regarded as part of his family but
rather of their mother's family.
[FN59]. Kludze, supra note 41, at 245.
[FN60]. A.K.P. Kludze, Chieftaincy in Ghana 4 (2000) [hereinafter Chieftaincy].
[FN61]. Manuh, supra note 41, at 81.
[FN62]. Chieftaincy, supra note 60, at 35.
[FN63]. Oppong, supra note 54, at 28; Ghana: A Country Study, supra note 47, at 83.