The primary objective of this article is to present nugormesese as an indigenous mechanism of social capital in Buem-Kator, a farming community on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border area. The concept of social capital will be minimally defined to refer to the capability of social norms and customs to hold members of a group together by effectively setting and facilitating the terms of their relationships. Unlike physical capital (machineries...
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Nugormesese: an indigenous basis of social capital in a West African community : Le Nugormesese : une base traditionnelle de capital social dans une communaute ouest-africaine (French). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes ; no 86 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/151051468007774805