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Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana

Author : Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 14,25 MB

Release : 2005-09-22

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0595814395

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PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK: "Highly educative! Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana brings early post-colonial Ghanaian politics full circle, the way it ought to be. Indeed, it is most appropriate that the Doyen of the Ghanaian independence movement should get this treatment at a time when the Danquah-Busia tradition is on the ascendancy in Ghana." -Roger Gocking, historian, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York, author of The History of Ghana and Facing Two Ways: Ghana's Coastal Communities Under Colonial Rule.



Ghana’s Ashanti Pioneer Newspaper

Author : Jarvis L. Hargrove

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 14,80 MB

Release : 2022-11-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3031111044

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This book is a history of a prominent Ghanaian newspaper, the Ashanti Pioneer, as well as well-known figurers in the country itself. It utilizes the stories published in the newspaper to recount the history of the press, including its key individuals and groups, and to provide a unique perspective on the most important events in the Gold Coast during the mid-twentieth century, just prior to and after independence. This work will show that the Ashanti Pioneer influenced public opinion on several subjects. From its opening in 1939, the newspaper contributed greatly to the spread of newsworthy information throughout Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast, from Kumasi to the coastline and to its Northern borders. Readers interested in African History, independence movements and newspaper history will find this work insightful.



The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

Author : Abiola Irele

Publisher :

Page : 1025 pages

File Size : 33,20 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

ISBN : 0195334736

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From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe. The term "African thought" has been interpreted in the broadest sense to embrace all those forms of discourse - philosophy, political thought, religion, literature, important social movements - that contribute to the formulation of a distinctive vision of the world determined by or derived from the African experience. The Encyclopedia is a large-scale work of 350 entries covering major topics involved in the development of African Thought including historical figures and important social movements, producing a collection that is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent research, and a solid guide for further study.



Democracy in Ghana

Author : Jeffrey W. Paller

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 45,55 MB

Release : 2019-03-07

Category : History

ISBN : 1316513300

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A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.



Africans

Author : John Iliffe

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 421 pages

File Size : 19,81 MB

Release : 2017-07-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1107198321

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An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.





Governing Extractive Industries

Author : Anthony Bebbington

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 20,90 MB

Release : 2018-06-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0192552880

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. Governing Extractive Industries synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. The authors focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact, exploring the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production.



The New Scapegoats: Colored-On-Black Racism

Author : Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 37,47 MB

Release : 2005-03-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0595797164

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The New Scapegoats: Colored-On-Black Racism debunks the widespread and seemingly indelible myth of Africa's blind and facile complicity in the massive uprootment and enslavement of its own in the Americas between the Fifteenth and Nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates the Transatlantic Slave Trade to have been the primary product of Western Europe's industrial revolution. Praise for Okoampa-Ahoofe's Work: "Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's analyses always expand the frontiers of our knowledge. He challenges what is taken for granted and in the process pushes us to reflect critically on important issues of the day. In his latest work The New Scapegoats: Colored-On-Black Racism, Okoampa-Ahoofe re-visits old assumptions about the Africana world and takes to task how these tired assumptions are being re-cycled as the new paradigm for understanding Africa." -Karl Botchway, political scientist, New York City College of Technology of The City University of New York, author of Understanding 'Development' Intervention in Northern Ghana.



The History of Ghana

Author : Roger S. Gocking

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 381 pages

File Size : 15,70 MB

Release : 2005-06-30

Category : History

ISBN : 0313061300

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Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability to maintain political stability. Within the space of 24 years there were four military coups and the collapse of three republics. Ghana's Fourth Republic, established in 1993, has dealt with the legacy of instability inherited from the past as it moves towards a more stable future. A timeline, photographs, maps, and an appendix of biographies of notable figures in the history of Ghana are included. Students and adults alike will find this book to be highly effective in describing the often turbulent and tumultuous history of this country.



Monument Wars

Author : Kirk Savage

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 15,24 MB

Release : 2011-07-11

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0520271335

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Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.