Author: Philip Brigg
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guide
Keywords: guide, travel, bradt, ghana
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1841622052
ISBN-13: 9781841622057
Bradts Ghana has remained the bestselling guide to the country since it was first published in 1998, being used by almost every English-speaking visitor there. Visitors will discover a country steeped in a rich cultural tradition and little-visited attractions.Ghana is an uncrowded place to go for game-viewing with Mole National Park and Baobeng Monkey Sanctuary among the highlights.
Author: Lucile Davis
Publisher: Capstone Press(MN)
Keywords: capstone, world, countries, ghana
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2006-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 073688372X
ISBN-13: 9780736883726
No camera or fanny pack needed for this trip! We’re traveling to faraway lands with the turn of a page! Children will discover similarities and differences of each country’s culture, landscape, geography, economics, and more!
Author: George Kweifio-Okai
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: democracy, ghana, inside
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-03-18
List price: $17.98
ISBN-10: 1434310973
ISBN-13: 9781434310972
2001 to 2004 was arguably the most turbulent period of competitive democratic politics in Ghana’s history. It was the period the author Dr Nii Armah Josiah-Aryeh was General Secretary of the largest Opposition Party, the National Democratic Congress. McCarthyist intrigue was directed toward NDC and its predecessor PNDC which had ruled Ghana for 19 of the 44 years of independence, with Flt Lt Rawlings as leader. Rawlings now constitutionally ineligible to stand, the NDC was defeated at the 2000 elections. Remarkably, Western powers so desperate to remove Rawlings, sat back to witness even
Author: Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: ghana, reform, politics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0520077539
ISBN-13: 9780520077539
Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst describes the causes of Ghana’s dramatic economic decline and reviews the politics of reform that began in 1983.Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. As Africa confronts the possibility of total eco
Author: Kwame Insaidoo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: nation, renew, heal, time, ghana
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-08
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 143431068X
ISBN-13: 9781434310682
In this thought provoking book the author takes a critical retrospective glance at the political development of Ghana from its colonial past to the attainment of her sovereignty, and highlights the insidious fundamental flaws in the governance of the new nation.He unequivocally asserts that the creation of a dysfunctional totalitarian governmental system, where a cadre of unseasoned politicians systematically arrogated all power to themselves, and zealously prosecuted their political adversaries into oblivion, constituted the most fatal fundamental flaw in the governance of the nation. He poin
Author: Catherine M. Cole
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: theatre, party, concert, ghana
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 025333845X
ISBN-13: 9780253338457
". . . succeeds in conveying the exciting and fascinating character of the concert party genre, as well as showing clearly how this material can be used to rethink a number of contemporary theoretical themes and issues." -- Karin Barber Drawing on her participation as an actress in concert party performances, oral histories of performers, and archival research, Catherine M. Cole traces the history and development of Ghana’s concert party tradition. Cole shows how concert parties combined an eclectic array of cultural influences, adapting characters and songs from American movies, popular
Author: Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: ghana, reform, politics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0520077520
ISBN-13: 9780520077522
Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst describes the causes of Ghana’s dramatic economic decline and reviews the politics of reform that began in 1983.Ghana was one of the first African countries to adopt a comprehensive reform program and the one that has sustained adjustment longest. As Africa confronts the possibility of total eco
