A Short History of Ghana Armed Forces
Author : S. Kojo Addae
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Ghana
ISBN :
Author : S. Kojo Addae
Publisher :
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Ghana
ISBN :
Author : Emmanuel Wekem Kotia
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739196502
Africa Nations have contributed to peace operations in conflict zones across the world since the deployment of the United Nations Operations in the Congo in 1960. This has placed Africa as a major stakeholder in the maintenance of peace and security. For over fifty years Ghana has earned the international reputation as one of the largest and consistent Troop Contributing Country in United Nations mandated peace operations. While Ghana has long been an active contributor to peace operations, there are few or no comparative studies that systematically analyze the actual roles played by troops in many of the different conflict context where they have served. This book therefore, focuses on a comparison of two peace operations undertaken by the forces of an African Nation in two different missions in Lebanon and Liberia.
Author : Wuyi Omitoogun
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199262663
In this comprehensive study, 15 African experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of parliamentary oversight and control in nine countries of Africa, spanning across all the continent's sub-regions. Each case study addresses a wide range of questions, such as the roles of the ministries of finance, budget offices, audit departments and external actors in the military budgetary processes, the extent of compliance with standard public expenditure management procedures, and how well official military expenditure figures reflect the true economic resources devoted to military activities in these countries.
Author : Timothy Stapleton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1648250254
"West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia placing it within a broader social context and emphasizing, as far as possible, the experience of the ordinary soldier. The aim is not to describe the many battles and campaigns fought by this force but to look at the development of the West African colonial army as an institution over the course of about a century. In pursuing this goal, it is sometimes useful to employ the lens of military culture defined differently by scholars but essentially meaning a set of shared ideas and behaviors that inform daily life in the military. While other locally recruited colonial militaries in Africa have attracted considerable attention from historians as they served as an essential pillar supporting European rule, this book represents the first comprehensive scholarly study of Britain's West African army which was the largest such British-led force south of the Sahara. The study is based on extensive archival research conducted in nine archives located in five countries"--
Author : Festus Boahen Aboagye
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108499376
An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
Author : Christopher R. Kilford
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"... Christopher Kilford sets out to carefully examine how Canada became involved with the provision of military equipment, advice and training to armed forces throughout the developing world after 1945 ... impact that military assistance had in several 19th century countries and why later, in the 1960s, militaries were often viewed as the best means to encourage wider societal modernization while also preventing the spread of communism. This latter issue was a key reason why Ottawa found itself authorizing military assistance missions in the post-war period, until such efforts, at the urging of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, effectively dried up in the early 1970s."--from back cover.
Author : Steven Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674728807
Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
Author : Kofi Awoonor
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, Ghanaian
ISBN :
Author : John Dramani Mahama
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1408832690
An important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a fable-like memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa. 'A much welcome work of immense relevance' Chinua Achebe My First Coup D'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence 'lost decades' of Africa. He was seven years old when rumours of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. My First Coup D'Etat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa's success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama's is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his stories work on many levels - as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation. Though non-fiction, these are stories that rise above their specific settings and transport the reader - much like the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Nadine Gordimer - into a world all their own, one which straddles a time lost and explores the universal human emotions of love, fear, faith, despair, loss, longing, and hope despite all else.