Politics of Ghana

investment in Ghana. The specific objectives to be achieved are to: • Undertake a comprehensive review and analysis of the oil and gas situation in Ghana. • Analyze Ghana’s most recent oil and gas performance and highlight the specific challenges and constraints. • To ensure transparency in oil and gas exploitation and resource wealth management in Ghana. 1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Since independence it has been part of every government 's policy to explore Ghana 's hydrocarbon

In spite of their independence, African nations continue to face serious economic, social, and military challenges. I claim colonialism served as a significant force that had a detrimental impact on African society, economics, and politics. The Oxford dictionary defines colonialism as the “policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.” In this essay, I will examine the impact of colonial

tribe laws. Fauziya was able to not go through FGM at the age of fifteen because her father (now deceased), protected her from the procedure at the time. With the help of her older sister and her mother, Fauziya was able to flee from Togo to Ghana; escaped Ghana because she thought her aunt and her husband would catch her there, and went to Germany. A German woman took her in for a few months, until one day she met a Nigerian man who sold her his sister’s British passport and advised her to ask for

“Sustainability is a matter of long term development” (Fowler, J., Sept.24th), this is the simplest statement describes the word “sustainability” till the end of the third week lecture. After two weeks’ lecture classes and ESS lecture classes, the concept that “sustainability is not a certain technology or policy” (Introduction to Environment, Sustainability and Society, slide79) is founded in my mind. Mind Shift organization and professor Matthew Schnurr’s research taught me more specifically that

Neopatrimonialism and Elections in Africa Elections violence as a type of political violence The issue of political violence is often described as being heterogenous to the the African continent and is often triggered by subnational political processes and characterized by the use of force by different types of groups that are politically motivated to secure resources and gain access to power (Raleigh 2014, p.92). The intent behind political violence is predominantly to impact a variety of political

When one aspect of a person or group of people is threatened, they will act out in other forms that they also feel threatened through. By this relationship between politics and culture, once can use one to the advantage of the other, or as seen in the film the Battle of Algiers, exploit it for the others gain. In an unknown land, the aspects of the cultures that inhabit become something of awe and curiosity. Specifically

originally wanted to be a pediatrician because she wanted to help children and be the person who was able to soothe parents worries. When she was 17 years old, the civil war in Liberia began. In the 1990's, Leymah and her family became refugees in Ghana. Over the years she became very bitter with God and stopped going to church because she couldn't understand why he

If there is one thing that African political scholars can agree on is that the nature of African democracy is without a doubt a complex subject to explain and conceptualize, primarily due to the fact that the continent is made up of fifty-four independent countries, each unique in their societies, people, cultures, language, leaders and governing processes. However despite this difference in African states there is a shared fundamental understanding for the need for democracy in order to establish

development of iron industry took place in every use of daily life. The common or traditional business of trade for them consisted of cotton, leather, metals, gold against horses, clothes, copper, salt, etc. They were modifying their lifestyles and politics as more as they were coming closer to other communities of the world (Ajayi, 1970). The Sahelian kingdoms

Sustainability is complex, and there are many different ways that we can promote sustainability in our lives. Through the exploration of how activists choose to promote sustainability in their lives we can learn about the importance of empowerment and storytelling. “Fractured Land” documents the life of Caleb Behn, an indigenous environmental activist who studies law in an effort to combat the unsustainable effects of fracking. Growing up, Caleb saw the effects of fracking through his culture.