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Proceedings of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (Volume XXVIII, 1989 – The Future of Our Cities)
Proceedings, 1989.
Contents
The Academy at 30: Future Agenda — E. Evans-Anfom
What Role May One Expect of the Regional Capitals of Ghana in the Country’s Development? — K.B. Dickson
The Role of Architecture and Planning — P.A. Tetteh
Transport — E.K.A. Tamakloe
Satellite Communications — S.A. Okang
The Challenges of Modernism — S.T. Addo
The Sociology of Urban Life — Max Assimeng
Crime and Delinquency — D.N.A. Nortey
Health Aspect of Water and Waste Management — S.N. Otoo
Waste Management — N.A. Armah
The Development of School Education in the Gold Coast (Ghana) since 1471: Some Observations and Reflections — Madjaben Dowuona
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Ghana’s Juvenile Justice System on Probation…Making Progress with Painful Steps and Slow
Inaugural lecture by Professor Henrietta J.A.N. Mensa-Bonsu, University of Ghana. Delivered in 2006.
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Libraries and National Development: Implications for Ghana
Inaugural lecture by Professor Anaba A. Alemna, University of Ghana. Delivered in 2006.
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An 11th Region of Ghana? Ghanaians Abroad
Inaugural lecture by Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, University of Ghana. Delivered in 2006.
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Channels of Prayer, Prophecy and Power: Contemporary Religion, New Media and Transformation of the Public Sphere in Africa
Inaugural lecture by Professor J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theology Seminary, Ghana. Delivered on March 31, 2016.
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Proceedings of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (Volume XXXVI, 1997 – Land as a Resource for Development)
Proceedings, 1997.
Contents
Intellectual Agenda for Coping with Social Reality — J.H. Kwabena Nketia
Security of Title to Land in Ghana — Enoch D. Kom
Land Utilization for Development: Constraints and Suggested Solutions — B.J. da Rocha
The Institutional Capacity for Land Utilization for Development: Constraints and Suggested Solutions — Seth Opuni Mensah
Land Resource Management for Agricultural Development — Kasim Kasanga
Land Resource Management for Human Settlement and Industrial Development — Paul W.K. Yankson
Land as Capital — P.A. Koranchie and M. Owusu-Ansah
Religion and National Identity: Assessing the Discussion from Cicero to Danquah — Kwame Bediako
Efficient Utilization of the Vertic Soils of the Accra-Plains: Prospects, Constraints and Way Forward — Yaw Ahenkora
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Where There is No Silence: Articulations of Resistance to Enslavement
Inaugural lecture by Professor Naana Jane S. Opoku-Agyemang, University of Cape Coast. Delivered in 2006.
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Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts
“Zukiswa has mastered the art of writing a travel memoir. Through engaging prose she takes you on a journey — which she seamlessly intertwines with her innocent childhood memories — through Africa, Europe and then back to Africa. Even better she is doing part of the trip with her family which is unchartered territory: an African family exploring their own continent by public transport for adventure’s sake. What a way to bond.” — Sihle Khumalo, author of Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu, Heart of Africa and the best-selling Dark Continent, My Black Arse
Ten years after her first book was published, Zukiswa Wanner leaves her Nairobi home on an adventure-filled road trip with her partner and son. Travelling by road to the southern most country in Africa, she gets stranded in a border town in Malawi; finds herself in the midst of a protest against bond notes in Zimbabwe that shows her that Mugabe isn’t the force that he once was. And while dealing with immigration officials from Uganda to Ukraine, she learns what it means to carry an African passport. Wanner deals with the politics of the nations she considers home as well as the politics of literary festivals and writing with the same touch of humour that has been her signature since her first book — The Madams.
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London Capetown Joburg
1994. The world is about to change. The first truly democratic election in South Africa’s history is about to unite Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation at the ballot box. And, across the world, those in exile, those who could not return home, those who would not return home, wait. Watch and wait . . .
London. Martin O’Malley isn’t one of those watching and waiting. He is too busy trying to figure out if Germaine Spencer really is the girl for him and why his best friend is intent on ruining every relationship he gets involved in. And then . . . And then Germaine is pregnant and suddenly the world really has changed for Martin O’Malley.
South Africa. A land of opportunity. A place where a young black man with an MSc from the London School of Economics could have it all, would have it all. But what does Martin O’Malley, London born and bred with an Irish surname, really know about his mother’s country? His motherland. A land he has never seen.
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Men of the South
In Johannesburg three men’s lives revolve around one woman. Mfundo is a struggling jazz musician. All hope of ever becoming famous end when he gets into a macho fight with an international R&B artist. No one is keen to employ him any longer, and Mfundo takes the role of house-husband. But his girlfriend Sli is not willing to be the ‘man’ of the house. Mzilikazi is a gay man in a heterosexual marriage. One of the few people in his life who do not question the decision he makes is his best friend, Sli. Tinaye is a Zimbabwean struggling to gain citizenship in South Africa hence his current situation – underpaid and overqualified. The only way to gain citizenship is to marry Grace. But then he meets Sli…
₵135.00Men of the South
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The Trial of J.J. Rawlings: Echoes of the 31st December Revolution (2nd Edition)
The Trial of JJ Rawlings narrates the extraordinary circumstances under which a young military officer Flt Lt JJ Rawlings, later to become the longest serving Head of State of Ghana, shot into the limelight to change the course of Ghana’s history and political development.The first edition of the book, originally published in 1986, completely sold out within a year, making this second edition very welcome in response to public request.
This volume is a valuable contribution to our understanding of those ineluctable forces that have changed the contours of our society. Surely, the story of JJ, well told in this volume, cannot fail to grip and hold the reader’s most concentrated attention. – Prof F.A. Botchwey, PhD
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The Mind of Africa
The Mind of Africa, written while the author was A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, was a fruit of that enlarged perspective. After several years, he visited Ghana in 1962. There Kwame Nkrumah, then President of Ghana, successfully persuaded him to return to teach at the University of Ghana, Legon and he subsequently resigned from All Souls. In 1968, he went to the United States as a visiting professor. This was followed by invitations to teach at various academic institutions there, including Berkeley and Stanford. He subsequently settled in California, where he continued to teach and research philosophy in the University of California at Santa Cruz until his retirement.
The Mind of Africa appeared at a time when a number of African countries were obtaining, or fighting for, their political freedom from their colonial rulers; and becoming independent nations expecting to build new societies in accordance with their own visions and conceptions, though not necessarily jettisoning all the features of their colonial heritage. Building new societies requires appropriate ideologies and philosophies fashioned within the crucible of their cultural and historical experiences. Thus, the relation between ideology and society is taken up at the very outset of the book… The Mind of Africa is important for Africa’s future and identity.
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Where’s Jamela?
Age Range: 4 – 7 years
Mama has wonderful news – she has found a new job, and a new house nearby. But Jamela is not impressed. She likes her old house so much that is where she wants to stay. On the day of the move after everything and everyone were ready, Jamela was no where to be found. Where is Jamela?
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Achieving The Phenomenal In Africa
“Princewill Omorogiuwa is a timely messenger to a new generation of Africans. His Argument in this work is profound in its simplicity, and refreshing in its clarity.” — Bernard Avle, Radio/TV Host, Citi Media, Ghana
In this erudite and immensely thought-provoking work, Achieving The Phenomenal In Africa, the Author, Princewill Osaro Omorogiuwa, assembles an invaluable distillation of substance that coheres into a revolutionary classic that would change the way you think, feel and act about the unpredictable, harsh terrains of Africa.
Through real-life experiences and engaging writing, the author posits that Africa, a harshly competitive environment, is brimming with untapped potential, ripe with critical problems and opportunities, best solved and seized by people who think elevated, can handle complexity, adapt quickly and possess unique perspectives.
This eloquent work gets to the heart of the deepest aspirations of the human heart, to be financially free and successful; showing you how to guarantee your own success in any endeavour.
This book brims with brilliant practices for making the success game not only achievable but phenomenally achievable in Africa.
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Money Galore (African Writers Series, AWS161)
This witty, extravagant but seriously intended satire marks the arrival of Ghana’s answer to T.M. Aluko. Abraham Kofi Kafu finds teaching a hard grind and lacking in rewards. He stands for the Liberation Party, the party of businessmen, landlords, smallholders and taxi drivers. As Minister of Internal Welfare, Kafu pursues his political career with a lively devotion to women, drink, gambling and skulduggery of various kinds and an almost total aversion to work unless it is devoted to some personal end. He is supported by a large cast: a crooked but amiable contractor, Anson Berko; a less amiable and even more crooked contractor, Nee Otu Lartey; the Permanent Secretary, Mr Vuga, an ineffably dreary civil servant who strives to manipulate Kafu as he has manipulated previous Ministers but also turns out to be as crooked and so is subject to blackmail; the slimy Reverend Dan Opia Sese, who takes over as headmaster from Benjy Baisi and seduces Kafu’s maid. But even Kafu cannot get away with it for ever.
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