The Noise Silence Makes
Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars
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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.
Keywords
secularism;PentecostalCharismatic Christianity;religious sound;traditional religions;Africa;culturalization;H?m?w?;Drum Wars;Accra;Ga community;African urbanity;Gold Coast;nuisance ordinances;British Gold Coast;ocularcentrism;noise pollution;Ghana;Daily Graphic;Sankofa;sonic theology;loud worship;ritual silence;right to religion;religio-culturalization;sonic tensions;Ga Traditional Council;Accra Metropolitan Assembly;Nuisance Control Task Force;Environmental Protection Agency;Homofest Ghana;Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture Ghana;noise regulation;Pentecostal Charismatic ChristianityDOI
10.1215/9781478060406ISBN
9781478094296, 9781478028192, 9781478031413, 9781478060406Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2025Grantor
Series
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People,Classification
Religion and beliefs
Ethnic studies
Africa
Ghana
Social and cultural anthropology