This book is designed to present and appraise techinques of social research to students and graduates operating in rural communities in developing countries. It questions the validity of adopting methodologies …

This lecture examines the work of Ayi Kwei Armah, one of Ghana’s leading novelists. Armah’s novels have two types of souls: diseased and healthy. The author focuses on the nature and causes of the diseased soul…

The author is a senior lecturer in English at the University of CapeCoast. She has taught in the Communicative Skills Programme since itsinception in 1989; and was a tutor at the Writing Workshop at YorkUnivers…

Ewe is one of the major languages of Ghana. The Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ghana here provides a book about the language as such. He intends it as more than a text…

Asante Twi is the most widely spoken of the dialects of the Akan language, and Akan is spoken by about forty four percent of Ghana’s population as a first language. It is also used as a second language by many …

In the eighteenth century part of modern day Ghana consisted of the three Akyem states, yet in almost all historical works on Ghana the Akyem are presented as a single homogeneous people. The author, Senior Lec…

Mumuni Bawumia served as a Member of Parliament and Government Minister in Ghana’s first independence government, working closely with Kwame Nkrumah through to the period of the Fourth Republic. He is remembere…

This book discusses the foreign policy of Ghana’s first independent government and this momentous early period in the postcolonial history of Ghana, under the stewardship of Kwame Nkrumah. At this time, Nkrumah…

Boundary studies in Ghana have focused primarily on the evolution and impact of the international boundaries, to the complete neglect of internal administrative divides. Filling the gap, this comprehensive stud…

This is the text of an inaugural lecture at University of Cape Coast. The Professor of History focuses on the first twenty-five years in the history of Ghana, 1957-1982, as it is symptomatic of the problems of …

The first edition of this book, published in 1970, was widely acclaimed as the best account of grassroots politics to have emerged from Africa. One of its unique features is the extent to which the author has e…

There are differences in the meaning of motherhood from one society to another, and radical variations in ideas about conception, birth, child rearing and relationships between parents and children. In Ghanaian…

A former head of the Ghana National Council of Women and Development here explains, from her experience in Ghana and other parts of Africa during the UN Decade for Women, what she believes women’s emancipation …

This book argues that indigenous modes of communication – for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio – are essential to the societies with…

The author of this book is one of Ghana’s foremost writers of fiction, particularly for children, and is also a literary critic and Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Coast. This novel for young ad…

A Ghanaian student, Kwame, goes to the U.S. to study, and becomes romantically involved with a young white American woman, Ginger. He throws himself into the relationship and into college life, and it is not un…

These nine stories and four poems for young people are set in the African cultural context. Whilst interesting and enjoyable, they all contain clear moral messages, such as how the honesty of the individual rel…

The sacred stool is an emblem of power and prestige. Two different men covet the stool; each determined to grab the succession by any means, fair or foul. The rivalry of the two men sparks off violent confronta…

Argues that the sustainability of such programmes depends on the training and commitment of local leaders, as well as on methodologies employed; and that community education has the potential to improve the liv…

Drawing on the results of non-formal education programmes inspired by Brazil’s famous educationalist, Freire, particularly non-formal education and literacy programmes in Brazil, Ghana and Tanzania, the author …