...Aminata Cécile Mbaye 14. Abu-Lughod, “Writing against Culture.” 15. Several African literary works tackle the question of female same-sex intimacy, to name few: in Ghana. Our Sister Killjoy: or, Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint , by Ama Ata Aidoo ; in Nigeria, Happiness, Like...

...Jesse Weaver Shipley Abstract Between 1979 and 1983 soldiers, workers, and students in Ghana launched a revolution to destroy the neo-imperial order. In the Ghanaian historical imagination that era is not remembered for its radical populism but as a time of violent chaos before the nation-state...

... originality of Dankwa's monograph, then identifies some of its thematic and analytic contributions to queer African(ist) scholarship. Next, it kickstarts a comparative exercise that foregrounds similarities and differences between the erotic culture of same-sex desiring women in postcolonial Ghana...

..., and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana . For a book that took so long to blossom, there is nothing more rewarding than having such nuanced and inspiring interlocutors. I will be able to respond to only a fraction of the issues they raise. In a narrative that sought to document the experiences and knowledges...

... intervention in the economy dating fiom countries which had by 1994 adopted adjustment the colonial era, this implies a radical redefinition of policies in Africa, the six with the greatest improve- the whole concept of government and governance. ment in macro economic policies - Ghana, Burundi...

...: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” London : Routledge , 2011 . Dankwa Serena Owusua . Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . Foucault Michel . The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume I...

... the Cold War superpower confidently guiding its impact, it appears here as an intimate part of an African-managed infrastructure of political exile. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Gwambe's move to Ghana opened a path for Soviet and other Eastern bloc aid. Indeed, his time in Accra...

...Steven Pierce steven.pierce@manchester.ac.uk Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana . By Serena Owusua Dankwa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 318 pp., $99.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In her...

... moderate adjusters achieved better and to privatize their economies. These assumptions are agricultural performance than strong adjusters. examined here to determine whether structural adjust- Ghana and Mauritius are perhaps the best examples ment is likely to produce long-term economic develop...

..., Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana . Steven Pierce, Aminata Cécile Mbaye, Rachel Spronk, and Thomas Hendriks explore Dankwa's provocative study of a group that cannot be treated as such—working-class women in southern Ghana who have intimate and erotic relationships with one another, many of whom...

... Nigeria and women’s organizations in rural Ghana. Prudence Woodford-Berger examines collective identities and political ideology in Ghana. She contends that despite the importance and status of women in the matrilineal Akan society in various capacities, such as queen mothers, and traders, Akan women...

... that are devoid of current books and jour- which the IFIs and their intellectual apologists have nals, and hospitals that have become glorified con- tried strenuously to showcase in favor of SAP in Africa sulting clinics and virtual mortuaries. is Ghana.49 Although compared to the pre-Rawlings...

...-African complexities, when Neogy was imprisoned by the Ugandan government in 1968. The journal gained a restart in 1971 in Ghana, 76 with Wole Soyinka as editor, but had to close its doors in 1976 for financial reasons. Mazrui suggested a comparative and connected reading of Nkrumah and Lenin's...

... . Hart Jennifer . Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2016 . Link Stefan J. “ The Charismatic Corporation, Finance, Administration, and Shop Floor Management under Henry Ford .” Business History Review 92...

... . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . Getachew Adom . Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . “ Ghana: Lessons from Nkrumah's Fallout with his Economic Advisor ” Conversation , March 1 , 2016...

...: The place names are a list of well-­worn exotica: Zanzibar. Paris. Bali. Amazing Deals. Airport A friend of mine reviewed Ghana Must Go (2013) taxes not included. by Taiye Selasi and then sent the review to me. She described Selasi’s...

.... , 331 – 46 . London : Routledge , 2012 . Conrad David Fisher Humphrey . “ The Conquest That Never Was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076, Part I: The External Arabic Sources .” History in Africa 9 ( 1982 ): 21 – 59 . Conrad David Fisher Humphrey...

...- dence from West Africa-the area where Europe’s ers and merchants are let them give it to us and we impact was greatest during the slave trade- shall be heard.” The article further condemned the especially from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and association for being unrepresentative and composed...

... financial insolvency, the case studies within countries, such as the chapters by IMF and the World Bank offered structural adjustment Rosemary Galli and Ursula Funk on Guinea-Bissau and loans, conditional on a reorganization, designed by the Lynne Brydon and Karen Legge on Ghana. lending agencies...

... that lit- the situation of popular literature in Ghana: erature of the land remains paradoxical. While the people are largely the object of literary dis- Cultural commentators in the West tend to Garnier...