Dictionary

enskin en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + skin.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Ghana, transitive) To install as a leader of a group.
   • Although the Kpembewura does not elect or enskin the Kafabawura, as claimed by the Jitipe gate, he oversees both the nomination and enskinment or conferment of the title. 2010, A. K. Awedoba, Edward Salifu Mahama, Sylvanus M. A. Kuuire, Felix Longi, An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace : Key Aspects of Past, Present, and Impending Conflicts in Northern Ghana and the Mechanisms for Their Address, African Books Collective, →ISBN, page 169:
   • On being enskinned, the successful candidate was ceremonially informed that he was henceforth answerable to all the Wala and not only the Nabihi. 2002, Ivor Wilks, Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171:

Forms

Deriveds

enskinment

Relateds

enstool · enthrone