No reports on the Atadeka clan, its relationship to the Ewe tribe including current chief in Nogokpo village in the Volta Region; procedure for choosing a new chief, who inherits the position; consequences for refusing to take up the position of chief, and availability of state protection for the individual, could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Ghana. 1971. Area Handbook. Edited by Irvin Kaplan. 1971. Washington, DC: Secretary of the Army.

IRB Data Bases

LEXIS/NEXIS

Oral sources

Resource Centre. Country File.

Shillington, K. 1992. Ghana and the Rawlings Factor. New York: St. Martins Press.

Yeebo, Z. 1991. Ghana: The Struggle for Popular Power: Rawlings: Saviour or Demagogue. London: New Beacon Books.

Internet sites including:

Council of Ewe Associations of North America

Ewe Multicultural Association of Ontario

Search engines including:

Google

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