USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West Africa

Hi all,

I'm working on my second book, which fictionalizes a bit of family lore.  My great-grandfather was discovered with a cache of guns and banished by the British in 1897 – no one from the family ever heard from him again and no one knows where he died, was buried, etc.

I'm obviously not a historian, so I wonder if you have any suggestions for texts that I should read that examine the use of banishment to suppress suspected anti-colonial dissent.  I know, for example, that the Asantehene was banished to the Seychelles and eventually returned to Ghana but don't know how more minor figures who were banished during the colonial period were treated.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Lola

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