Abstract
Since 1981 the region around the Oti river, on the border of Ghana and Togo, has been the scene of five ethnic conflicts — the bloodiest clashes in Ghana since its founding. These conflicts (one of them on Togolese territory) can be seen as a series. Although up to 1994 they each occurred in a different place with different opponents, they all involved members of one ethnic group in particular, the Konkomba.2
An earlier version of this chapter appeared in German (Bogner, 1996). For reasons of space limitations this revised version does not include all references and footnotes of the earlier one. I thank the publishers of A frika spectrum for permission to use the same material again. The translation is by Valerie Heffernan. I especially thanks the following persons: Kirsten Andersen, Nana Kwame Arhin, Moses Muligna Bakar, Salifu Bawa Dy-Yakah (†), Gideon Alabani Kayil, Mary Kenney, John and Denice Klein Douwel, Dirk Kohnert, Helmut Kuzmics, Carola Lentz, Anthony Mananyi, Amir Moghaddass Esfehani, Steve Tonah, Cas Wouters and Kenneth Wujangi.
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Bogner, A. (2000). The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana: the genesis and escalation of a ‘tribal’ conflict. In: Lentz, C., Nugent, P. (eds) Ethnicity in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62337-2_9
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