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Gyamfi’s Golden Soap
Commodity Marketing, Reform Legitimation, and the Performance of Cultural Authenticity in Ghana’s Popular Theatre
David Afriyie Donkor
Ghana Studies January 2011, 12-13 189-216; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/gs.12-13.1.189
David Afriyie Donkor
Texas A&M University
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Gyamfi’s Golden Soap
David Afriyie Donkor
Ghana Studies Jan 2011, 12-13 (1) 189-216; DOI: 10.3368/gs.12-13.1.189
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- Unilever and the Concert Party: Brief Histories
- Modernizing Legend: From Anokye’s Golden Stool to Gyamfi’s Golden Soap
- Marketing the “Golden” Soap: Invented Tradition and the Unilever Campaign
- Product Placement and the State-Centrist Critique of Commercialized Culture
- Intersecting Histories: The National Theatre and Ghana’s Runaway Public Sector
- Reframing the Debate: An “Age-Old Prejudice” and The Politics of Legitimation
- Conclusion: Tradition—A Discourse at Large
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