In general terms you may want to consult our "Votes, Money and Violence. Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa" (eds Basedau/Erdmann/Mehler), Uppsala, NAI 2007 with notably one contribution by E. Gyimah-Boadi focussing on Ghana and a further one by P. Nugent (Banknotes and Symbolical Capital)...

Thank you Mehler and Kohnert for you wonderful contributions

Best regards.

Some references on ethnicity and politics in North East Ghana:

BOGNER, A. (2000), “The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana: the genesis and escalation of a ‘tribal’ conflict. Ethnicity in Ghana”, in LENTZ, C. and NUGENT, P, The Limits of Invention, London, Macmillan Press.

BRUKUM, N. J. K. (2001), The Guinea Fowl, Mango and Pito Wars: Episodes in the History of Northern Ghana, 1980-1999, Accra, Ghana Universities Press.

DAWSON, A.C. (2000) Becoming Konkomba: Recent Transformations in a Gur Society of Northern Ghana, (unpublished thesis), Alberta, Department of Anthropology University of Calgary.

JÖNSSON, J. (2007) The Overwhelming Minority: Traditional Leadership and Ethnic Conflict in Ghana’s Northern Region. Crise working paper No. 30. Department of International Development, University of Oxford

LENTZ, C. (2000) “Colonial Constructions and African Initiatives: The History of Ethnicity in Northwestern Ghana”, Ethnos, 65 (1), p. 107-136.

LADOUCEUR, P. A. (1979), Chiefs and politicians: the politics of regionalism in Northern Ghana, London, Longman.

MAASOLE, C. (2006) The Konkomba and their neighbours. From the Pre-European period to 1914. Ghana University Press, Accra.

MANOUKIAN, M. (1951) Tribes of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.

International African Institute, London.

PUL, H. S. (2003), “Exclusion, association and violence: trends and triggers in Northern Ghana’s Komkomba Dagomba wars”, The African anthropologist 10.

RATTRAY, R.S. (1931), “The Tribes of the Ashanti Hinterland: (Some Results of a Two- Years Anthropological Survey of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast)”, Journal of the Royal African Society, 30 (118), p. 40-57.

STANILAND, M. (1975), The Lions of Dagbon: Political Change in Northern Ghana, London, Cambridge University Press.

TONAH, S. (2005a), “Chieftaincy succession disputes and the challenge to traditional authority in Mamprugu - northern Ghana”, Institute of African Studies: Research Review 21 (1), p. 45-57.

TONAH, S. (2005b), Fulani in Ghana: migration history, integration, and resistance. Accra, Research and Publication Unit, Dept. of Sociology, University of Ghana.

WEISS, H. (2005), “Contested historical and geographical narratives: Succession disputes, contested land ownership and religious conflicts in northern Ghana. Working Papers on Ghana”, Historical and Contemporary Studies 6.

Thank you David you have rally helped me.