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Nima-Maamobi in Ghana's Postcolonial Development

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956552216
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Nima-Maamobi in Ghana's Postcolonial Development written by Charles Prempeh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a deep insight into the socio-economic reality and complexity of two of Ghana's largest slums - Nima and Maamobi - located in the capital city, Accra. It identifies and analyses the socio-religious, cultural and political contexts of the two communities. These are ethnically and religiously diverse populations with a common history of migration and integration. The book shows that the causes of economic stagnation and underdevelopment in the two slums are deeply contextualised, complex and nuanced. Through a biographical examination of the political activism of Agnes Amoah, a foremost local leader, the book brings to bear how Mrs. Amoah also brought socio-economic transformation to the communities by breaking cultural, religious and gender barriers in the interest of conviviality. In context, the book sheds important insight on the urban, political and the local and translocal histories that have shaped the social transformations of Nima and Maamobi.

Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553735
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Decolonization in Postcolonial Ghana written by Charles Prempeh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the millennium, in Ghana and in other African countries, there has been a vociferous debate over the history and present condition of the family. The debate has largely fragmented the Ghanaian constituency into two nearly intransigent camps: those who think the indigenous family system should experience cultural osmosis to accommodate the seismic Western cultural revolutions and the overwhelming religious constituency who advocate the retention of conservative family system. This book is a contribution to the debate. Written by an African Studies academic, it seeks to use the resources of both the social sciences and religion to assess the merits of the various parties to the debate. The author believes in the legitimacy of the traditional family system as conditio sine qua non for preserving human civilization. Nevertheless, the goal of this book is not to further polarize the Ghanaian front, but build bridges, by inviting the various parties to the debate to walk the complex pathways of exercising compassion without compromising the values that support human flourishing. Charles Prempeh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana.

Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana

Author : Nancy Henaku
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000936562
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana by : Nancy Henaku

Download or read book Communicative Perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana written by Nancy Henaku and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises. The volume critically reflects on the significance of communicative dimensions, understood here as the effects of communication on bidirectional flows between senders and receivers, on many different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Grounded in transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives and drawing on data from the Ghanian experience, the book showcases how important it is for local factors to be taken into account by governments, medical professionals, social commentators, and everyday people in communicating during a pandemic, when local cultures, histories, and infrastructures all play a role in shaping communication and the dissemination of knowledge. Chapter examines such topics as the role of metaphor, the use of social media in disinformation, and the range of strategies and channels employed by stakeholders. This volume centers the pandemic experience in a Global South context, demonstrating the importance of a greater focus on local contexts in understanding communication in a time of pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, crisis communication, health communication, discourse analysis, and African studies.

The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana

Author : Charles Prempeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553905
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana written by Charles Prempeh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2017, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufu announced his intention to build a national cathedral to the people of Ghana. The announcement elicited watertight counter arguments that morphed into two a priori re-litigated assumptions: First, Ghana is a secular country and second, religion and state formation are incompatible. Informed by a frustrating paradox of an overwhelming religious presence and concurrent pervasive corruption in the country, public conversation reached a cul-de-sac of “conviction without compromising.” In The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana, Charles Prempeh deploys the national cathedral as an entry point to provide both interdisciplinary and autoethnographic understanding of religion and politics. The book shows the capacity of religion, when properly cultivated and curated as a worldview to answer the why questions of life, will foster personal, moral, collective and ontological responsibility. All this is needed to stem the tide against corruption, commodity fetishism, environmental degradation (illegal mining—galamsey), heritage destruction and religious exploitation. Prempeh recuperates a historical fact about the mutual inclusivity between religion and politics—politics helping to manage differences, while religion provides a transcendental reason for unity to be forged for human flourishing. Separating the two is, therefore, ahistorical and an obvious threat to the intangible virtues that answers, “why and how” questions for public governance.

Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa

Author : Duncan Omanga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003801560
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa written by Duncan Omanga and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how digital technologies are revolutionizing electoral campaigns and democratization struggles in Africa. Digital technologies are giving voice and civic agency to a cross section of African voters, providing important spaces for political engagement and debate. Drawing on cases from Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe amongst others, this book traces the shifts and tensions in this changing electoral communications landscape. In doing so, the book explores themes such as hate speech and disinformation, decolonisation, surveillance, internet shutdowns, influencers, bots, algorithms, and election observation, and looks beyond Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube to the increasingly important role of visual platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Particularly highlighting the contribution of African scholars, this book is an important guide for researchers across the fields of African politics, media studies, and electoral studies, as well as to professionals and policymakers in political communication.

Ghana in Search of Development

Author : Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351793136
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Ghana in Search of Development written by Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish colonialism, there was a general optimism that irreversible socio-economic development was about to unfold. But by the end of the 1970s Ghana paradoxically became the first country in Twentieth Century Africa to have experienced socio-economic decline. What failed Ghana? This book seeks to answer this question. By combining sociological, economic, political and institutional perspectives, this book focuses on the interplay between state politics and socio-economic development. It provides a model, which suggests that Ghana’s postcolonial development has suffered mainly as a result of the failure or inability of governing elites to develop consensual politics and a clearly specified long-term development objective that could be widely understood, accepted and have relevance for policy making. This book presents a much-needed self-assessment of the post-colonial development experience which contends that governance, economic management and institution building are basic challenges without which the search for development is likely to falter.

Ghana in Search of Development

Author : Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315205144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ghana in Search of Development written by Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish colonialism, there was a general optimism that irreversible socio-economic development was about to unfold. But by the end of the 1970s Ghana paradoxically became the first country in Twentieth Century Africa to have experienced socio-economic decline. What failed Ghana? This book seeks to answer this question. By combining sociological, economic, political and institutional perspectives, this book focuses on the interplay between state politics and socio-economic development. It provides a model, which suggests that Ghana's postcolonial development has suffered mainly as a result of the failure or inability of governing elites to develop consensual politics and a clearly specified long-term development objective that could be widely understood, accepted and have relevance for policy making. This book presents a much-needed self-assessment of the post-colonial development experience which contends that governance, economic management and institution building are basic challenges without which the search for development is likely to falter."--Provided by publisher.

The Postcolonial State and Nation in the Articulation of Development and Communication Policy in Ghana

Author : Amin Mohammed Alhassan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial State and Nation in the Articulation of Development and Communication Policy in Ghana written by Amin Mohammed Alhassan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation focuses on the articulation of communication policy and development within the postcolonial nation-state. Taking Ghana as a case, I interrogate policy practices on telecommunications and broadcasting around the axis of commodification as the requirements of globalization as against the extension of citizens' access to communication conduit as a requirement of nation-building. Historically, the postcolonial state appropriated for itself the mandate of development planning to put in place a new regime of production as part of the project to turn subjects into citizens. Such a task of community building underscores the central significance of the communicative infrastructure as the framework for the nation that is in the process of coming into being. The discussion is based on interviews and observations during research in Ghana from March to July 2002 and policy documents from the World Bank, the IMF and the Ghanaian state. Using commodification as a conceptual device and articulation as a method, I discuss the contemporary predilection of the Ghanaian state towards market led development. This enables me to tease out the implication of the new language of policy that privileges the exchange value over the use value of communication services. I also trace the gradual re-articulation of communication as information as part of the logic of digital capitalism. A bifurcated nation, so to speak, is in the making. The urban landscape, especially, the capital city of Accra is characterized by a burgeoning community of digital consumption with internet cafés, telecenters and mobile telephony, springing up to augment the already media rich environment of multiple channels of electronic media and press. The rest of the country remains largely unserved by the market, bringing back to the table, the question of nation building and commodification of communication as incongruent admixture for development and democratization of access. The promised national community of citizens based on a principle of inclusion is gradually turning out to be an exclusive economy of digital consumers in the urban centers and a disconnected constituent of non-city dwellers all in an increasingly unimaginable polity.

The Predicament of Blackness

Author : Jemima Pierre
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923029
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Predicament of Blackness written by Jemima Pierre and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This title tackles the question of race in West Africa through its post-colonial manifestations. Pierre examines key facets of contemporary Ghanaian society, from the pervasive significance of 'whiteness' to the practice of chemical skin-bleaching to the government's active promotion of Pan-African 'heritage tourism'.

Understanding "development" Interventions in Northern Ghana

Author : Karl Quaye Botchway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding "development" Interventions in Northern Ghana written by Karl Quaye Botchway and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfied with the persistence in understanding development as that which is self-evident and needed by all poor societies no matter their peculiar needs, circumstances, and history, Botchway (African American studies, City U. of New York-College of Technology) examines the latest attempt at engineering development in Ghana's Northern Region Rural Integrated Program. He investigates what such so-called development does in practice, by probing the constitution of its objects and subjects, their relationships, and their intended and unintended effects in explaining social change. The study is revised from his doctoral dissertation in political and social science at the New School for Social Research, New York; some of the chapters have been published as separate articles. The text is doubled spaced. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Reinventing Development

Author : Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317068408
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Development written by Lord Mawuko-Yevugah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid-receiving countries back in control of their own development agenda. Drawing on the case of Ghana, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah argues that this shift and the emphasis on partnerships between donors and poor countries, local participation, and country ownership simultaneously represents a substantive departure from earlier versions of neo-liberalism and an attempt by global development actors and local governing and social elites to justify, and legitimize the neo-liberal policy paradigm. This book shows how the new architecture of aid has important implications in three distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of Western aid and development policy interventions; and the reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author provides detailed and original research on the new development paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid whilst offering a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid relations.

Education in Post-colonial Ghana

Author : G. M. Osei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in Post-colonial Ghana written by G. M. Osei and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospect of redistributing power from central government offices to local actors and organisations has repeatedly tantalised academics, politicians and policy makers promulgating decentralisation measures in hopes that such action would cure the social and economic ills faced by their policies. Education planners in Accra regarded decentralisation as an important strategy for raising the quality and status of Ghanian education. The Ministry of Education (MOE) was depending on the local content curriculum (LCC) to achieve many things. As MOE officials observed, however, the success or failure of the reform essentially depended on the actions of classroom teachers. Even if plans for the reform were carefully designed and communicated by experts in Accra, goals for the reform would not be met unless teachers implemented the reform as envisioned by its authors. When the Ghanian government enacted the LCC reform it was depending on classroom teachers to take a leading role in the process of educational decentralisation. The one goal that all members of the system appeared to have most thoroughly absorbed was the notion that as a result of the changes outlined in LCC policy documents, the curriculum in Ghanian schools should more closely mesh with local conditions. St. Aquinas junior high school, a private Catholic institution was the only school I visited where teachers were willing to question and modify policies created in Accra. Rather than obediently follow instructions from Accra, St. Aquinas employees reshaped MOE policies to meet their own educational philosophies and objectives. My research indicates that the MOE has not yet commenced to rebuild the culture of education to fit the new vision of teaching and learning it is promoting. Instead, it is attempting to append the LCC reform to an existing core, with only minor modifications.

Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062742
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana written by Stephanie Newell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the literary habits - production, reception, selection - in a colonial Ghana, this study provides empirical and statistical data of how colonial literature is absorbed - and coins the new term paracolonial to better describe the ebb and flow of influence and creativity. It shows how colonial West Africa (the Gold Coast) adapted to an imposed education system and developed its own indigenous cultural representation, far beyond the previously conceived limited vocabularly of simple mimicry.

Education System and National Development in Ghana

Author : Kwaku Osei-Hwedie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Education System and National Development in Ghana written by Kwaku Osei-Hwedie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics of Social Change in Ghana

Author : B. Talton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349999514
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Social Change in Ghana written by B. Talton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interests and compete politically and economically with neighbouring ethnic groups.

The Maghreb Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Maghreb Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The State, Development and Politics in Ghana

Author : Emmanuel Hansen
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9781870784054
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The State, Development and Politics in Ghana written by Emmanuel Hansen and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten essays focuses and analyses Ghana's political, economic, agrarian and social development. The authors are all Ghanaian scholars, and they reflect on their country's experience from different perspectives, providing an indigenous voice to the debate about the country's development. The subjects covered are the state, capital and labour relations 1961-1987; from GTP to Assene: aspects of industrial working class struggles 1982-1986; women's political organizations 1951-1987; changing relations between the IMF and the Government of Ghana 1960-1987; financial intermediation and economic development; trends in foreign policy after Nkrumah; the land question since the 1950s; the state and food agriculture; policies and politics of export agriculture; and the problems of the health care delivery system.