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en- +‎ skin

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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, 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, 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.

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