Politics of Ghana

communities. For example, Kente clothes are made from cotton, silk, and raffia. Salm and Falola claim that, The cultures and customs of Ghana today are a product of diversity in indigenous form, influenced by a long history of Islamic and European contacts. They represent a dynamic process of adoption and adaptation, incorporating elements of outside cultures. The Ghana Boy tunics are a good example of how African artists combined elements of traditional African work with European elements. They are

Establishing a construction company in Ghana is very important because of the ongoing growing of Ghana. Ghana wants to become more modern day and start building more houses and more buildings in its cities. Moving an construction company over to Ghana is a good idea because they need construction material to build. The business endeavor is to create a company that will provide construction material to contractors that are doing construction on houses and buildings. The planned market is to sell or

5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1 Conclusions From this study, we realize that Ghana has had a long standing history of gold production, dating back to the colonial era: The economy continues to be a dominant gold producer in Africa and the world. Further, gold production has contributed significantly towards the development of the economy of Ghana; providing the much needed foreign exchange earnings; as well as jobs and incomes for the citizenry. The librazilization of gold production in 1989

religion to display the ways religion has changed due to globalization. Appiah himself says that he is a product of globalization because he has a Ghanaian father and a British mother. He uses Ghana as one example of how globalization has affected religion. When he wrote this analysis, the president of Ghana was educated in Oxford and practiced Catholicism. Appiah says that the president had a picture in his office of himself and the Pope shaking hands. According to Appiah, the photograph was easily

Hypothesis While ethnicity is not mono-causal to determining voting behaviour, the focus of this study is the consistency of ethnicity as a key determinant of voting behaviour in Ghana, particularly, in the Volta and Ashanti Regions. This dissertation posits that ethnicity is a consistent key determinant of voting behaviour in Ghana, and this is because ethnicity is enshrined within the political arrangements of the country (Oelbaum, 2007, pp. 242-273). There are two main ethnic blocs which give rise under

The recorded history of Ghana begins in 1471, when Portuguese traders landed on the coast in search of gold, ivory, and spices. Following the Portuguese came the Dutch, the Danes, the Swedes, the Prussians, and the British. Commerce in gold gave way to the slave trade until the latter was outlawed by Great Britain in 1807. The 19th century brought a gradual adjustment to legitimate trade, the withdrawal of all European powers except the British, and many wars involving the Ashanti, who had welded

ASSESSING THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN GHANA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC 1. Introduction Elections are a prominent feature of modern politics, an essential element of consolidated democracy. Elections function as the democratic tool that allow for peaceful transfer of governance within political systems as well as a tool for holding political elites accountable to their publics. Elections also give the citizens of a country the opportunity to exert an influence over the

this includes standard of living, health, safety, and basic necessity one needs to live a stable life. We will compare it to the state of Ghana whose economy has also flourished but has been success in human development. Many argue that poverty is inevitable in many states of Africa because of their colonial history but nevertheless we have states like Ghana who has been able to flourish despite its surrounding problems and colonial history. In order to figure out why Nigeria has failed to have

of Islam on the early African empire of Ghana is that it made it highly advanced. Most ministers and politicians within the empire practiced Islam and as a result Arabic language and scientific learning spread. Islam brought about an intensification of education and academic achievements causing the empire to be known for its Muslim lawyers and academics. Al Bakri, a Muslim geographer, describes: “Also, as Muslims, they belonged to the larger body politic of the Islamic world and this would make

until now, Ghana is considered one of the farthest growing country in the continent of Africa because of several reasons. Ghana enters the historical data by the end of the 8th century, through the narrative of Muslims traders traced to the desert by the profitable exchange for gold by its leaders. Nevertheless, after the six centuries the exchange attracted the Portuguese sailors down to the coastline of Guinea. In addition, this led to the Trans-Saharan trading and the Islamic politics, reinforcing