Going Back to our Roots. Traditional Installation Mechanisms as a Lasting Solution to the Dagbon Chieftancy Dispute

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject World History - General and Comparison, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Faculty of Social Sciences), language: English, abstract: The Dagbon chieftaincy dispute is an old phenomenon in the historical epoch of chieftaincy and dispute in Ghana. This social and political crisis in the Dagbon kingdom can be traced from the colonial period around the 1948s and events preceding the enskinment of Naa Mahama III. Various research and efforts has been put in place to unite the two feuding Royal Gates but in vain. However, the attention of scholars on the theme never focused much attention on the Dagbon Traditional Installation Mechanism as an alternative dispute resolution. It is based on this outlook that the researcher employed all the necessary tools of social research such as qualitative approach with data from selected key interviews mostly from leaders in the kingdom and previous literature for the exploration of the Dagbon traditional installation mechanisms as an alternative conflict resolution approach. To a very large extent, the protracted nature of the dispute is attributable to the laxity of stakeholders to realize the potency of the Dagbon traditional installation mechanism. Given the dynamics of the Dagbon chieftaincy conflict, the study takes a closer look at the Dagbon traditional installation mechanisms as an alternative means to providing a lasting solution to the chieftaincy dispute in the Dagbon kingdom.