I was born at the beginning of democracy, but grew up at a time where Ghana was ruled over by a military government in the early 1990’s, until finally a civilian was president for the first time in over twenty years. Prior to this period in our political history, the country was…
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This qualitative study examined Ghanaian immigrants' specific social interaction and economic challenges in adjusting to life in the United States. Agnew's General Strain Theory was instrumental to the theoretical framework of this study, which provided a strong basis for unders…
Ghana is considered an oasis of peace despite having the same mix of ethno-political competitions for state power and resources; north-south horizontal inequalities; ethno-regional concentrations of Christians and Muslims; highly ethnicised elections; a natural resource dependen…
This dissertation is a comparative study on policy formulation processes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) approach of three cases in Africa. At the centre of this inquiry are the issues of the replication of the TRC-approach across borders, and the policy formula…
Family disruption, health hazards, degradation, and physical and psychological abuse are common among migrant female headload porters in Southern Ghana. Microfinance is well-documented as a socioeconomic remedial tool for poor women in some developing economies. Little is known,…
This thesis consists of two studies analyzing the first phase of the Cocoa Livelihood Program (CLP-I), a current World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) development project, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and aimed at improving the livelihood of small scale cocoa produc…
This study examines the phenomenon of brain drain from the African countries to the U.S., with focus on Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. The study has a specific two-fold objective: (i) to determine the extent of economic burden entailed by brain drain from these sub-Saharan countries…
This dissertation is an attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), first prime minister and first president of the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. The goals of this study are threefold: first, it is to make a scholarly contribution to the ongo…
This study explores the ways in which selected fictional narratives by Ayi Kwei Armah, Nuruddin Farah, Bessie Head and Wole Soyinka figure the African world in its postcolonial condition. By "figuration" I mean, after Hayden White, the manner in which a determinate narrative--hi…
Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, India and Argentina all struggled to apply democracy in the 1950s. United States officials closely watched these efforts, leaving detailed records about political events. Many in the United States thought these countries would adopt, as a natural st…
The Law of International Maritime Boundaries is characterized by an evolution that can be noticed at many levels. These levels include the application of equitable principles, the criteria for delimitation, the basis of title, the techniques, the methods and the applicable law. …
Le présent mémoire a pour but d'illustrer à partir de données bibliographiques couvrant la période 1940–1996 la place faite aux femmes dans la littérature sur le secteur halieutique en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il vise à démontrer, sur une base comparative, comment la variable ethniqu…
This thesis is on the need for a fresh look at humanitarian intervention. I am interested in this topic because of recent events that have taken place in Africa, especially Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia and particularly, in Ghana. In March 1994, war broke out in Northern Ghana betwee…
Through an analysis of works by Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan female writers (Mariama Bâ, Ken Bugul, Ntyugwetondo Angèle Rawiri and Ama Ata Aidoo), I examine the various narrative strategies elaborated by African women authors to resist binary oppositions, and to advoca…
This study concerns the search for a stable polity in Africa. Specifically, it investigates the theoretical assumptions concerning the relationship between ethnic differences and military disengagement. The theoretical postulation here seeks to explain that the politicization of…
Négritude is a condensed form of Western ideologies; yet it is still the basis for any claim of Black/African specificity. However, that specificity is not unique to Black/Africans, but is, rather, part of a wider universal system. At the same time, because racism is one of the …
This is a study of state culture and ethnicity in West Africa, particularly Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria. These countries represent the diverse cultures and major economies of the West African region. State culture is a polarizing political culture originally created to achieve n…
This study documents the Ghanaian experience in the economic development of kola nuts as a major cash crop from the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It examines the production, marketing, and organisation of the kola nut trade in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asant…
This study examined factors and processes contributing to militarization in The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone from the colonial period to 1985. It drew from open systems organizational change theory and the literature on the military to study the development of a natio…