The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars

Author/Contributor(s):	Goshadze, Mariam
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	05/30/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming illuminates the innerworkings of Ghanaian secularity and the importance of "traditional religions" to African urbanity.