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Cristiano Lanzano, « Coyle Rosen Lauren. — Fires of Gold. Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana », Cahiers d’études africaines, ID : 10.4000/etudesafricaines.36759
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At the heart of the Ashanti region in southern Ghana, the town of Obuasi hosts one of the largest industrial gold operations in the country and the whole African continent, now owned by the AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) mining conglomerate. As a consequence, the town is at the center of intense migration flows, financial investments and political projects, linked not only to the formal economy of AGA’s extractive operations but also to the mining activities performed by galamseys (informal or artis...