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

Politics & the Struggle for Democracy in Ghana is a pioneering attempt to describe the Ghanaian political system, define its parameters, its structures and anal

Ghana attained independence in 1957. From 1992, when a new constitution came into force and established a new – democratic – framework for governing the cou

Mapping Ghana's struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the poli

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often