... frontier encompassing the maritime zones and resources of a swath of West African nation-states stretching from Senegal to Benin. In Ghana, the country at the leading edge of this extractive front and a harbinger of regional trends, these developments are premised on innovative arrangements of maritime...

...L. M. Thompson Ghana: A Historical Interpretation . By Fage J. D. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1959 . Pp. xiv , 122 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 489 All this is described with meticulous care and great skill by Mr. Flint...

... of leapfrogging have been attractive, there has been limited research on how exactly renewable energy resources are adopted in sub-Saharan Africa, especially at times of unreliable access. Drawing on fieldwork with energy professionals in Accra and Tema, Ghana, this article analyzes the transformations in energy...

... among the Anlo and other Ewe-speaking peoples of southern Ghana and Togo. To most, the town is remembered as the common home of their Ewe ancestors, a place where a king ruled with tyrannical power...

... uncommitted continent may fill in world politics. While our news media have begun to familiarize us with the names of some of the African leaders Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Tom Mboya of Kenya, Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika, Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, Feliz HouphouetBoigny of the Ivory...

... of progress and civilisation. But what was in his mind from day to day and what was the source of his immense driving force, are still, to one reader, a matter of doubt and of interest. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES L. M. THOMPSON Ghana: A Historical Interpretation. By J. D. Fage. Madison...

...Jorge Millones The US-based Newmont Mining Corporation is the world's wealthiest gold mining company and has been denounced within the United States and by other countries including Indonesia, Ghana, Turkey, and Bolivia. Its critics accuse Newmont of seriously damaging the environment and public...

... regarded as the most powerful.1 It is an account of Wright’s travels in the Gold Coast colony, later the independent state of Ghana, as the guest of his friend, Prime Minis- ter Kwame Nkrumah...

... of Ghana (west Africa), in which the social and the cultural are studied in the context of changes that were also occurring in the political and religious belief systems of southern Ghana. is associate professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley. She is the author of Scenes...

..., the villages became typical colonial- ist communities—similar to today’s gated communities. After their arrival in Africa, the missionary collectivists appealed to the Danish government that had begun to explore West Africa’s Gold Coast (what is now Ghana) in the early 1820s. Under Danish auspices...

... be­ yond her immediate borders. In October 1967 Robert Gardiner of Ghana, the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, suggested that African states should consider the possibility of development aid from South Africa. Reports persisted that South African representatives were making...

...; Brazzaville is known too, aside from the popularity of its dance-music programs in West Africa, for its historic conference of 1944; and though URAC may not have been more successful as a political union and merging of national identity than the Ghana-Guinea 136 The South Atlantic Quarterly alliance...

... the idea of the sensational form through my research on Pentecostalism in Ghana. In particular, I was struck by the specific way in which the spiritual and the physical are related in Pentecostal religiosity. Evil spirits are held to work through bodies, food, gifts, or commodities...

... on the economics of the public sector and the economics of energy and forest resources in the United States, Canada, Indo­ nesia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Ghana, and several other Latin American, Asian, and African countries. thomas lahusen is Associate Professor of Russian and Polish, and Chairperson...

... products. Every summer, between thirteen and twenty thousand migrants come to Puglia and Basilicata looking for temporary work. For the past several years the majority have been from West Africa (especially Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, and Ivory Cost), East Africa (Sudan), and Central...

... . Ahlman Jeffrey S. 2010 . “ The Algerian Question in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1958–1960: Debating ‘Violence’ and ‘Nonviolence’ in African Decolonization .” Africa Today 57 , no. 2 : 67 – 84 . Allman Jean . 2008 . “ Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom, Ghana...

..., and Production 307 Chalfin, Brenda, Governing Offshore Oil: Mapping Maritime Political Space in Ghana and the Western Gulf of Guinea  101 Chari, Sharad, African Extraction, Indian Ocean Critique,   83 Cohen, Nicole, Entrepreneurial Journalism and the Precarious State of Media Work  513 Cooper...

... own study of Ghana, and the fall of Nkrumah since the book was written makes Apter appear a shrewd analyst indeed. Apter tries to separate the political aspects of modernization from such other elements as economic and industrial development. Through­ out the book he writes of a nation s progress from...

... and of Lagos, the attorneys general of the Federation and re­ gions, as well as a number of officials and members of the bar. Foreign guests included prominent judges, legal officials, and aca­ demicians from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Ghana.3 The meetings were opened...

... alignment; Brazzaville is known too, aside from the popularity of its dance-music programs in West Africa, for its historic conference of 1944; and though URAC may not have been more successful as a political union and merging of national identity than the Ghana-Guinea ...