Document #1141903
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
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.
Sources Consulted
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
Mamma