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Proceedings of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (Volume III, 1965)
Proceedings, 1965. This issue contains the first series of the J.B. Danquah Memorial Lectures delivered by Justice W.B. van Lare in February 1968.
Contents
Address by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at the Academy of Arts and Sciences Dinner on Saturday, 30th November 1963
Science in the Service of Agriculture – Sir William Slater
New Frontiers in Geography – Professor E.A. Boateng
Science and Social Progress – Professor A.N. May
The Importance of Environmental Sanitation in the Development of Low-Cost Housing Schemes – Mr. E. Lartey
Inermicapsifer Guineensis Graham (1968), A Review and Redescription – Dr. Leticia E. Obeng
Aspects of the Biosynthesis of Phenolic and Related Compounds – Professor F.G. Torto
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Proceedings of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences & The J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture, Series 1 (Volume VI, 1968)
Proceedings, 1968. This issue contains the first series of the J.B. Danquah Memorial Lectures delivered by Justice W.B. van Lare in February 1968.
Contents
Presidential Address – Justice N.A. Ollenu
Medical Educatioin – Dr. John R. Ellis
Space Research and Its Relevance to Developing Countries – Rev. Professor John R. Koster
The Relationship between Overweening Pride and Retribution – Professor L.H. Ofosu-Appiah
Sudden, Unexpected and Unexplained Deaths in Accra, Ghana – Dr. William Neizer Laing
The Law, Human Rights and the Judiciary (The 1st J.B. Danquah Memorial Lectures) – Justice William Bedford van Lare (The J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture, Series 1)
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Notion of the State in Contemporary Africa (Proceedings, 1998)
Proceedings, 1998.
Papers included are as follows:
Beyond State Collapse in Africa: Lessons for the Future – Nana Dr. S.K.B. Asante
Globalisation and the Future of the African State: Challenges and Opportunities – Mr. Alex Ashiabor
Overcoming the Development Problem of the Nation State in Africa through Regionalism – Professor S.K.B. Asante
Evolution of the Nation State in Africa: The Period Since Independence – Professor E. Gyimah-Boadi
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Medicine
Inaugural Lectures
Lectures included in this collection are:
Health, Medicine and Society – Professor S.K. Owusu (25 March 1994)
The Future of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Ghana – Professor K. Frimpong-Boateng (7 October 2003)
Voyage from Birth to Death: Health Hazards for Ghanaians – Professor J.O.M. Pobee (2004)
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Improving Human Livelihood
Inaugural lecture by Professor Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, University of Ghana. Delivered in March 2006.
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The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences: A Historical Perspective
Published in 2009, during the Golden Jubilee year of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, this book presents a comprehensive account of the Academy’s activities in its first fifty years.
The author was elected Vice President of the Science Section of the Academy in 1996 and, in 2006, she became the first female President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Religion, Culture and Language: An Appreciation of the Intellectual Legacy of Dr. J.B. Danquah (The J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture, Series 37; 2004)
Lectures delivered by Professor Kwame Bediako, former Rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission, and Culture. Delivered in February, 2004.
Lecture 1: Danquah’s Insight Regarding the Centrality of Transcendence in Human Thought
Lecture 2: Danquah’s Conception of Culture and Its Place in the Renewal and Enhancement of Society
Lecture 3: Danquah’s Use of Mother Tongue in Intellectual Discourse and Its Relevance in Our Time
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Chemistry: The Neglected Element in the Industrialization Equation
Inaugural lecture by Professor Victor Patrick Yao Gadzekpo, former President, Central University College (now Central University). Delivered on June 29, 2005.
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Traditional And Religious Plants in West Africa
The book is a comprehensive coverage of the Traditional and Religious Plants of West Africa. Readers will be fascinated by the information captured in this masterpiece, authored by an academic gem who is well-known in the botany field.
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Conflict of Laws in Ghana
Generations of Ghanaian law students, scholars, legal practitioners and judges have engaged with conflict of laws issues in their respective capacities. Regrettably, they have not had access to an authentic Ghanaian treatise on the discipline — a treatise foregrounded in Ghanaian case law and legislation. They have had to rely on foreign treatises (often very dated editions) mainly written by reputed English scholars.
Richard Frimpong Oppong and Kissi Agyebeng have filled this void in the scholarship on Ghanaian law with their sophisticated and skilfully executed work of scholarship: Conflict of Laws in Ghana.
This monograph is a timely publication. We live in a globalised world, a world beset with conflict of laws problems. Increases in cross-border movements of persons and the concomitant cross-border relationships they create, the growth of international commerce and foreign direct investment, ever-increasing international litigation, and international arbitration have all highlighted the importance of conflict of laws as a discipline.
Judges, legal scholars, legal practitioners, law students and, indeed, all who operate in the international legal terrain, must take notice of this comprehensive work.
The range, depth and originality of Conflict of Laws in Ghana make it a must-read for anyone confronted with a conflict of laws issue in Ghana. They will find much value in doing so.
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Decentralisation Reforms in Ghana: The Experiences of the Fifth and Sixth Governments of the Fourth Republic
What were the decentralisation reforms? What did they consist of? What were their origins? Who authorised them? What were their outcomes? What Impact have they had on the local governance and decentralisation landscape In Ghana?
The answer to the first question is that they were new initiatives and innovations designed to accelerate the pace of and improve upon decentralisation implementation in Ghana.
The answer to the second question is that they consisted of a National Decentralisation Policy Framework and a National Decentralisation Action Plan I (2010-2014) and II (2015-2019), an Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCC), an expansion in the number of districts, a consolidated Local Governance Act, a re-branding of the Office of the Head of Local Government Service, the operationalisation of the Local Government Service and the introduction of a system of Inter-Service/Inter-Sectoral Collaboration and Cooperation. It also covered the enactment of National Development Planning (System) Regulations and a Land Use and Spatial Planning Act, the introduction of a Regional Integrated Budget System (RIBS) and blueprints for an Inter-Governmental Fiscal Framework (IGFF) and an Inter-Governmental Fiscal Transfer (IGFT) system.
The answer to the third question is that the reforms were traceable to the 2008 manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party which won the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of 2008 and 2012 and therefore formed the Fifth and Sixth Governments of the Fourth Republic.
The answer to the fourth question is that the reforms were authorised by Presidents John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama who successively were Presidents of the Fifth and Sixth Governments of the Fourth Republic.
The answer to the fifth question about outcomes is the new structures, procedures and processes for decentralisation implementation, the improved quality of human resources in the local government sector, and the more efficient systems of checks and balances in the sector.
The answer to the sixth question lies in the District Assemblies (MMDAs), the better service delivery by the Metropolitan, Municipal and of service delivery, the renewed interest in local governance by the citizenry and the claro Si rate reforms such as the elections of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDC Wand making the MMDAs partisan.
These and answers to other questions posed by the reforms are answered in this book by the two people who should know, namely, the authors Professor Kwamena Ahwoi and Dr Callistus Mahama.
Professor Kwamena Ahwoi is the longest-serving Minister of Local Government and Rural Development in Ghana (1988-2000). He was the Chairman of the High Level Strategic Task Force that produced the Decentralisation Policy Frameworks and Action Plans, He chaired the Legislative Review Task Force that resulted in the enactment of the Local Governance Act, 2016, Act 936 and was consultant to both the Ministry of Local Government and the IMCC during the period.
Dr. Callistus Mahama was a member of the High Level Strategic Task Force, a member of the Legislative Review Task Force, the Executive Coordinator of the IMCC and the Head of the Local Government Service during the period.
The two authors therefore write from a position of knowledge and experience and this is reflected in the contents of the book.
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Pilgrims of the Night: Development Challenges and Opportunities in Africa (Hardcover)
Africa’s development process has and continues to be like walking through a thick forest made obscure by institutional weakness, social challenges and capacity gaps. Sustainable development should be in the hands of Africans and outside support as a critical compliment. Getting the navigation right is paramount in the face of emerging challenges so well covered in this undoubtedly important and highly recommended book. The authors argue that Africa must control its own precious natural resources, reform its government institutions, modify its trade and economic relations and form new relationships with emerging economies in order to improve conditions on the continent.
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The Public Law of Ghana: A Tale of Two Legal Systems
Inaugural lecture by Professor Albert Kodzo Fiadjoe. Delivered on 16th September, 2009.
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Training the Next Generation of Scientists (The J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture, Series 36; 2003)
Lectures delivered by Professor Marian Ewurama Addy. Delivered in February 2003.
Lecture 1: Current Programmes for Scientific Manpower Development
Lecture 2: The Way Forward
Lecture 3: Hopeful Signs
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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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