English

Verb

enskin ‎(third-person singular simple present enskins, present participle enskinning, simple past and past participle enskinned)

1. (Ghana) To install as a leader of a group.
   • 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 9789988647384), page 169

     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.

   • 2002, Ivor Wilks, Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521894340), page 171

     On being enskinned, the successful candidate was ceremonially informed that he was henceforth answerable to all the Wala and not only the Nabihi.

Derived terms

• enskinment