enskinment

English

Etymology

enskin +‎ -ment

Noun

enskinment (plural enskinments)

1. the act of enskinning a new leader
   • 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:

     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.

See also

• enstoolment
• enthronement