KWAME AKON NINSIN, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Ghana; holds a BA (Combined Honours) degree in Political Science and History from the University of Ghana (1969), and Ph.D. (Political Science) from Boston University (1977). He has authored several works on Ghanaian and African politics; was editor or editorial advisory board member for several journals, including the Journal of Modern African Studies and Ghana Social Science Journal; visiting scholar at several universities in the US and UK, and held several executive positions including: Executive Secretary, African Association of Political Science, 1995-2001; Master, Mensah Sarbah Hall, University of Ghana 19911993; Member, Ghana’s Constitution Assembly 1991-1992; and Head/Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Ghana (for 3 terms from the 1980s to 1995).
Has received several academic awards including Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for “Reflections on Development”, 1987; Alphonso Castagno Memorial Award for Doctoral Research in Africa, 1975; African Studies Centre (BU) Grant for Research in Africa, 1974-1975; Fulbright-Hays Scholar, 1971-76 to study for the Ph.D. in the USA; Award for “Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Humanitarian Concern” by Boston University International Students Office, 1976; and the honour of the Kwame Akon Ninsin Library, Department of Political Science, University of Ghana. He has been honoured by the Department of Political Science, Legon by naming its library after him, the Kwame Akon Ninsin Library, for his immense contribution to the academic life of the Department.
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The Mumfordians: Memories of a Sea Boy
In one beautiful swoop, this book takes you to the nostalgic past and the aspirational future of an African nation still in the throes of defining self-determination. With the brilliance of powerful recalls, it dissects the socio-cultural as well as the political. It is one man’s journey from an idyllic African fishing village, through his self-improvement to become the executive secretary of a Pan-African body travelling several capitals of the world in the service of his employer.
It is also a book about people − their history, their dreams and the ills they seem unable to decidedly confront. But what makes The Mumfordians a keepsake is its richness in national promise and communal nostalgia.
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Kwame Nkrumah: A Leninist Czar or Radical Pan Africanist and Visionary?
There have been several misconceptions and distortions concerning the Man Kwame Nkrumah. This book attempts to correct these. It sheds light on the life and accomplishments of Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and Africa’s Man of the Millennium. It does an objective appraisal of him through critical issues that engaged his energies during his time; including his world outlook, the nature and direction of the African revolution; African unity and the role of the state; the DR Congo and imperialism; democracy, the nation and social justice; etc.
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The Corrupt Elites: Anatomy of Power and Wealth in Ghana
The Corrupt Elites is a simple and straight-forward narrative which explains the incidence of corruption in Ghana within successive historical epochs. The book argues that the Ghanaian state is sustained by a network of exclusive institutions built by the elites to facilitate the plunder of the nation’s wealth. This is because the elites are economically and politically weak to create wealth for themselves. The creation of exclusive institutions to facilitate corruption intensified from one historical epoch to another; it became a national scourge especially from the 1990s with devastating social consequences.
The book supports this narrative about corruption with concrete and credible illustrations.
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