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Kludze, A. Kodzo Paaku. "Constitutional Rights and their Relationship with International Human Rights in Ghana." Israel Law Review 41, no. 3 (2008): 677–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021223700000406.

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Particularly in developing nations, the movement has been toward the articulation of elaborate provisions in constitutions which guarantee the basic human and peoples' rights of the citizenry. In many cases these are reflections of the immediate past history of the young nations which were strewn with ugly spectacles of dictatorships on their path to democracy. The history of Ghana is unfortunately an illustrative example. The Ghana Independence Constitution of 1957—a very brief document—was brief to a fault and bereft of any provision for human rights. It is clear that the experience of years

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Yankson-Mensah, Marian. "Transitional justice and constitutionalism: The case of Ghana." South African Journal of Criminal Justice 33, no. 3 (2020): 543–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/sacj/v33/i3a2.

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The delicate process of constitution-making during transition covers a range of issues, but usually features questions on how to address past human rights violations, change repressive laws, recognise basic rights and reform state institutions. Hence, the constitution-making process can have significant implications on the transitional justice mechanisms that are adopted and how they are implemented. In the case of Ghana, the 1992 Constitution came into force after decades of political instability. On 28 April 1992, a draft constitution for Ghana’s fourth republic was approved in a referendum.

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Ekow Daniels, W. C. "The Impact of the 1992 Constitution on Family Rights in Ghana." Journal of African Law 40, no. 2 (1996): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300007750.

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One of the important characteristics of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, 1992, is the prominence it gives to the constitutional protection of the rights of men, women and children who live for a larger part of their lives as families. Although there are passing references to the family, that word is not defined by the Constitution, but the absence of a definition need not be regarded as evidence of non-recognition of the concept of family in Ghana society. Few will disagree widi the proposition that the basis of every society from the most primitive to the most complicated is the fam

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Ayee, Joseph R. A. "Decentralization Under Ghana´ s Fourth Republican Constitution." Verfassung in Recht und Übersee 25, no. 4 (1992): 394–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-1992-4-394.

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Abotsi, E. Kofi. "Introspecting the Office of the Special Prosecutor's Act and Ghana's Constitutional Framework on Anti-Corruption." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 28, no. 2 (2020): 219–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2020.0311.

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There exists broad consensus that the reality and persistence of corruption under the 1992 Ghanaian Constitution undermines the ongoing attempt at democratic consolidation and responsible governance. From the standpoint of constitutional trusteeship, corruption has been said to undermine regime legitimacy and the overall public service obligation incumbent on political actors. However, past attempts at fighting the menace through the mechanism of law reform have floundered. The recent passage of the Office of the Special Prosecutor's Act 2018 (Act 663) represents yet another statement of inten

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Sarpong, Adu-Manu Kofi, Abraham Bamfo Boakye, Abraham Amponsah, and Clement Yeboah. "Analytic Study Of The Trend Of Ghanas GDP Before And After Re-basing." International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) 12, no. 3 (2013): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/iber.v12i3.7673.

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The fourth republican constitution came into force in 1993. Ghana statistical Service also re-based Ghanas GDP in the same year. From 1993 to 2005, the average GDP growth rate was about 4.3%. Within the period of 1993 and 2005, Ghana was still below the lower middle income level. Another re-basing took place in 2006. It is now believed that we are in the lower middle income level. The study was conducted to develop mathematical models to predict the trend of Ghanas GDP before re-basing and after re-basing in 2006, use the models before and after re-basing to predict the future trend in Ghanas

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Nyarko, Michael Gyan. "The Right to Property and Compulsory Land Acquisition in Ghana: A Human Rights Perspective." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 27, no. 1 (2019): 100–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2019.0261.

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Using a human rights-based approach and Ghana as a case study, this article examines the scope and content of the right to property in relation to compulsory land acquisition under international law. It argues that while the exact frontiers of the right to property remain quite uncharted at the global level the vacuum has been filled by the regional human rights systems and soft law. In the context of Ghana, the Constitutional protection of the right to property and quite elaborate rules to be followed during compulsory acquisition have not translated into revision of the compulsory acquisitio

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Asare, Stephen Kwaku, and H. Kwasi Prempeh. "Amending the Constitution of Ghana: Is the Imperial President Trespassing?" African Journal of International and Comparative Law 18, no. 2 (2010): 192–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2010.0004.

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Kludze, A. K. P. "Chieftaincy jurisdication and the muddle of constitutional interpretation in Ghana." Journal of African Law 42, no. 1 (1998): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300010482.

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The Supreme Court of Ghana, in The Ghana Bar Association v. The Attorney General, has unanimously decided that, even under the 1992 Constitution, High Court and the Court of Appeal have no jurisdiction in chieftaincy matters. Even if this decision itself is correct, it is nevertheless premised on highly questionable legal propositions and dicta which strike at the foundations of several otherwise settled principles and canons of construction.

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Okyir, Nana Tawiah. "Toward a Progressive Realisation of Socio-economic Rights in Ghana: A Socio-legal Analysis." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 25, no. 1 (2017): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2017.0183.

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This article argues for the strengthening and entrenchment of socio-economic rights provisions in Ghana's jurisprudence. The purpose of this entrenchment is to engender judicial activism in promoting more creative pathways for enforcing socio-economic rights in Ghana. The article traces the development of socio-economic rights in Ghana's jurisprudence, especially the influence of the requirements of the international rights movement, particularly of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The article delves into the constitutional history of Ghana and its i

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Asamoah, Kwame, and Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah. "Fruitlessness of Anti-Corruption Agencies: Lessons from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in Ghana." Journal of Asian and African Studies 53, no. 7 (2018): 987–1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909618762575.

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Political corruption has become one of the most topical issues in the political discourse in Ghana. This stems from the fact that corruption has become so endemic and systemic in Ghanaian polity with its negative effects on the economy. Indeed, political corruption negatively affects job creation, investment potentials, infrastructural development and generally the standard of living of the people. It is within this context that anti-corruption institutions have been established in Ghana to address the menace of corruption. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is o

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Mensa-Bonsu, Maame A. S. "Why Electoral Reforms are Urgently Needed in Ghana." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 29, no. 2 (2021): 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2021.0359.

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In this article, I examine the breathtakingly wide scope of executive power and the low threshold for electoral victory in Ghana's constitution. I demonstrate how the ‘first past the post’ electoral formula colludes with the ‘winner takes all’ government configuration to saddle Ghana with a corruption-fuelled governance crisis that could escalate over time to be an existential threat to the longest-lasting democratic period Ghana has ever known. I assert that electoral reform to provide for consociational government is the only feasible way to simultaneously lessen the starkness of electoral l

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Abotsi, Ernest Kofi. "Amending the Constitution of Ghana: Is the Imperial President Trespassing? – A Rejoinder." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 20, no. 1 (2012): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2012.0026.

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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "The Admissibility of Evidence Obtained through Human Rights Violations in Ghana: Analysing Cubagee v Asare and Others (NO. J6/04/2017) [2018] GHASC 14 (28 February 2018)." African Journal of Legal Studies 12, no. 1 (2019): 81–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340044.

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Abstract The Constitution of Ghana, unlike those of other African countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa is silent on the issue of the admissibility of evidence obtained through human rights violations. Jurisprudence from Ghana demonstrates that although there had been cases in which the High Court and the Court of Appeal briefly dealt with this type of evidence, the Supreme Court, the highest court in Ghana, had not expressed an opinion on this issue until recently. In February 2018, in the case of Cubagee v Asare and Others, the Supreme Court laid down the criteria that Ghanaian

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Abdulai, A. I. "Human resource management in Ghana: prescriptions and issues raised by the Fourth Republican Constitution." International Journal of Public Sector Management 13, no. 5 (2000): 447–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513550010350841.

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Paa Kwame, Asare Larbi. "Justiciability of the Right to Development in Ghana: Mirage or Possibility?" Strathmore Law Review 1, no. 1 (2016): 76–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.52907/slr.v1i1.85.

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An analysis of the debate on the right to development (RTD) suggests that the right is pursued as a solution to solve the problems of poverty and underdevelopment. Thus, this study seeks to determine if at the national level in Ghana, the right to development is a right which is opposable by right-holders against the duty bearers. The Study adopted the Black Letter Law approach in analysing the legal effect of relevant law. This study shows that the African Charter is the only multinational treaty that makes RTD legally enforceable. It also shows that Ghana, which is dualist, has not ratified

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Boafo-Arthur, Kwame. "Chieftaincy in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century." African and Asian Studies 2, no. 2 (2003): 125–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920903322149400.

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AbstractThe paper delineates what is seen as key challenges to the chieftaincy institution in Ghana. Historical challenges in the form of colonial attempts to sidestep the institution and the attempts by the immediate post independence governments to subjugate and divest them of their economic strength through drastic laws, never cowed the institution. Currently, the 1992 Fourth Republic Constitution bars chiefs from participating in partisan politics thus infringing on their inalienable right of free association. The responses of chiefs to current challenges include the setting up of educatio

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Kofi Korankye-Sakyi, Francis, and Kweku Attakora Dwomoh. "Towards a conducive investment climate within Ecowas: The case for the amendment of sections 27 and 28 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre act 865 of 2013." University of Cape Coast Law Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ucclj.v1i1.224.

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 Since the independence of Ghana, she has been at the forefront of the integration of the African continent and for that matter the West African sub-region. Many developing countries are moving towards adapting to international and regional arrangements to enhance their relevance and leverage on trade and investment opportunities for their socio-economic development. Ghana is considered as having one of the safest and most conducive investment climates for doing business in Africa. This stride is attributed to its enduring democratic and legislative environments. The gains made so far in

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Edu, OK. "A Critical Analysis of the Laws of Inheritance in the Southern States of Nigeria." Journal of African Law 60, no. 1 (2015): 141–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855315000133.

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AbstractThis article critically examines the customary laws of inheritance in the communities of southern Nigeria. It argues that the rules are skewed against female beneficiaries, both wives and children. It also argues that courts faced with such customs should subject them to the repugnancy test contained in the Evidence Act 2004, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and other international conventions to which Nigeria is party, as do the courts in Ghana, South Africa and Botswana.

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Owusu, Maxwell. "Tradition and Transformation: Democracy and the Politics of Popular Power in Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 34, no. 2 (1996): 307–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x0005535x.

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In April 1992, after nearly 11 years of military rule in Ghana, a draft democratic constitution of the Fourth Republic was overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum.1 The ban on multi-party politics was lifted by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Government in the following month. An independent interim National Electoral Commission was established, and a hotly contested presidential election in 200 constituencies monitored by teams of international observers was held in November 1992. After multi-party parliamentary elections to the National Assembly, boycotted unfortunat

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Chalfin, Brenda. "Border Zone Trade and the Economic Boundaries of the State in North-East Ghana." Africa 71, no. 2 (2001): 202–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2001.71.2.202.

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AbstractFocusing on the tri-juncture of Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso, this article examines the role of cross-border traders in the construction and redefinition of international boundaries. Through the study of the social and spatial patterning of trade surrounding three commodities–imported cloth, beans and shea butter (karite)—it explores the multiple ways the border is endowed with or deprived of significance. When the border is viewed as a socio-geographic region the importance of popular practice to the on-going constitution of state power and presence becomes evident.

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Nkansah, Lydia A. "The call to citizens of Ghana to defend Ghana’s Fourth Republican Constitution: a death trap?" Commonwealth Law Bulletin 41, no. 4 (2015): 597–618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03050718.2015.1087324.

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Essel, Emmanuel Abeku. "Can Chiefs Be the Problem of Ghana's Democratic Political Space." Pro Publico Bono - Magyar Közigazgatás 8, no. 4 (2020): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.32575/ppb.2020.4.9.

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The 1992 Constitution of Ghana gives unfettered privileges to chiefs and their roles with regard to customs and their usages in the country. A whole chapter in the constitution has been dedicated to the chieftaincy institution which clearly indicates their mandates with a caveat that they cannot actively take part in politics. This arrangement, not only makes them feel alienated from the dayto-day-political discourse of the nation, but also leaves them with a sense of loss of their former position. However, since the institution is revered and forms part of the cultural heritage of the country

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Mantey, Efua Esaaba. "Beyond the Politics of Inclusion: The Policy Environment and the Fate of Children with Disability in the Ghanaian Educational System." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 5 (2019): 54–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mjss-2019-0066.

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Abstract The 1992 constitution of Ghana and other national legislative instruments guarantee and promote free compulsory universal basic education for all Ghanaian children irrespective of their background. This has been the practice for many years. Even though these policies have chalked some successes, especially regarding school attendance and gender parity, there still remains some level of uncertainty as to whether all Ghanaian children, especially those with disabilities, benefit from these policies. Using secondary information available, the paper provides an overview of the existing le

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Mensah, Kwadwo B. "Legal Control of Discretionary Powers in Ghana: Lessons from English Administrative Law Theory." Afrika Focus 14, no. 2 (1998): 119–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-01402002.

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This paper develops along the following line. First, we shall attempt to explain what discretion is, why it has become very important in the modern administrative state, and the dangers that it poses in a democratic legal system. It then looks at the problems which have to be faced in justifying judicial review of discretion. It takes an in depth analysis of legal liberalism and functionalism. Armed with these ‘lenses’ it attempts to explain the theoretical basis of two important Ghanaian cases, Re Akoto and People’s Popular Party v Attorney General (PPP v AG). It examines the provisions which

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Gandaa, B. Z., G. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Y. Balma, and S. Abubakari. "Ecosystem Management in Large-scale Irrigation Landscapes in Northern Ghana." International Journal of Irrigation and Agricultural Development (IJIRAD) 1, no. 1 (2018): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.47762/2017.964x.21.

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The concept of ecosystem and ecosystem management services has given rise to different definitions and classifications. Ecosystem may be defined as a natural unit of living things and their physical environment. Ecosystem concept shows the relationship of biodiversity and ecosystems and the benefits are the services enjoyed by humans. In the past, ecosystem resources were used by multiple groups and individuals across sub-Sahara for variety of purposes, sustaining agrarian livelihood through the use of customary laws and traditional social structures. After the Ghana’s 1992 amended constitutio

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Otu, Kwame Edwin. "Queer slacktivism as silent activism? The contested politics of queer subjectivities on GhanaWeb." Sexualities 24, no. 1-2 (2020): 46–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719893620.

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This article examines the news, information, and entertainment website called GhanaWeb to ascertain how Ghanaians anonymously engaged in debates and conversations on homosexuality in Ghana and the diaspora between 2006 and 2012. Ghana’s 1992 Republican constitution criminalizes homosexuality in Section 104 of the Criminal Code, setting the terrain for non-heterosexual bodies and practices to be regarded as illegitimate. This is the terrain that informs the reactions to opinion pieces on homosexuality on GhanaWeb. Hence, the article contends that conversations and debates on homosexuality on Gh

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F., Kutsanedzie, and Mensah E. . "Polytechnics as Institutions for Intraregional Collaboration for Skills Development in Africa." Journal of Education and Vocational Research 4, no. 10 (2013): 311–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jevr.v4i10.136.

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The Polytechnics in Ghana were established and given the mandate enshrined in the Constitution of Ghana under the Act of Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (Act 745) to train students in the fields of Science, Technology, Applied Social Science and Applied Art to serve the middle-manpower management needs of the country. In addition, the polytechnics are to provide skills development, conduct and publish industry driven research findings. Polytechnic graduate are expected by employers and captains of industry to be more practical-skilled and biased by virtue of their training. However, over t

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Salter, Phia S., and Glenn Adams. "Mother or Wife?" Social Psychology 43, no. 4 (2012): 232–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000124.

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Inspired by “Mother or Wife” African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal subjectivity and abstracted independence. We administered a resource allocation task in Ghana and the United States to assess the prioritization of conjugal/nuclear relationships over consanguine/kin relationships along three dimensions of sociocultural variation: nation (American and Ghanaian), residence (urban and rural), and church membership (Pent

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Meyer, Birgit. "“There Is a Spirit in that Image”: Mass-Produced Jesus Pictures and Protestant-Pentecostal Animation in Ghana." Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no. 1 (2009): 100–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750999034x.

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In southern Ghana, where I have been conducting research on the genesis of popular Christianity for almost twenty years, Christian imagery is everywhere. The Ghanaian state re-adopted a democratic constitution in 1992, and this was followed by a liberalization and commercialization of mass media, which in turn facilitated the spread of Pentecostalism in the public sphere (see De Witte 2008; Gifford 2004; Meyer 2004a). Within this process, Christian pictures have become ubiquitous. Pentecostal-charismatic churches assert their public presence and power via television, radio, posters, and sticke

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Widner, Jennifer. "Courts and Democracy in Postconflict Transitions: A Social Scientist’s Perspective on the African Case." American Journal of International Law 95, no. 1 (2001): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2642037.

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A “second liberation” swept the African continent beginning in 1989. In many places, multiparty elections and a measured optimism gained ground. Yet during the 1990s, the spirit of moderation and tolerance typical of the early independence movements began to fray. The recent armed conflicts of Central and West Africa and the columns of refugees crossing borders have served as a blunt reminder of the fragility of many of the continent’s democratic experiments.In this new era, law plays a central, visible, yet delicate role in many peace settlements and democratic transitions, from South Africa

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Larson, Erik W. "Time and the constitution of markets: internal dynamics and external relations of stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland." Economy and Society 39, no. 4 (2010): 460–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2010.510680.

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Dagbanja, Dominic N. "Privacy in Context: The Right to Privacy, and Freedom and Independence of the Media under the Constitution of Ghana." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 22, no. 1 (2014): 40–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2014.0079.

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Laar, Amos, Richmond N. O. Aryeetey, Robert Akparibo, and Francis Zotor. "Nutrition sensitivity of the 2014 budget statement of Republic of Ghana." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 74, no. 4 (2015): 526–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0029665115002426.

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Ghana's Constitution and several international treaties she has ratified demonstrate support for fundamental human rights to nutrition and freedom from hunger. However, it is unknown how this support is being translated into investment in nutrition. National budgets are important vehicles through which governments communicate intent to address pertinent national challenges. The present paper assesses the nutrition sensitivity of Ghana's budget statement for the year ending 31 December 2014. We perused the budget in its entirety, examining allocations to various sectors with the goal of identif

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Faanu, Pamphilious, and Emmanuel Graham. "The Politics of Ethnocentrism: A Viability Test of Ghana’s Democracy?" Insight on Africa 9, no. 2 (2017): 141–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975087817715534.

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The article assesses the use of ethnocentrism as a political strategy in Ghana’s electoral politics and the threat it poses to Ghana’s democracy. It focuses on the strategic ethno-political communication employed by politicians to wield voter support and how voters behave at polls. It reveals that prior to independence Ghana’s political parties were predominantly formed along ethnic and regional dimensions. This transcends into the current dispensation, as the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party are tagged as Ewe-Northerners party and Akans party, respectively. These ethni

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Lentz, Carola. "Of Hunters, Goats and Earth-Shrines: Settlement Histories and the Politics of Oral Tradition in Northern Ghana." History in Africa 27 (January 2000): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172113.

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The present paper deals with the settlement history of a West African agricultural society, that of the Dagara in present-day northwestern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso. In it, I shall be particularly interested in the appropriation of space, which is ritually legitimized through the acquisition of earth-shrines, and in the conflict-ridden relationships between the in-migrating Dagara and the Sisala, who were already settled in their new habitat. My primary concern, however, is not to examine the Dagara's expansion strategies or the history of interethnic conflicts as such, but their working

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Lawler, Nancy. "Reform and repression under the Free French: economic and political transformation in the Côte d'Ivoire, 1942–45." Africa 60, no. 1 (1990): 88–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160428.

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Opening ParagraphFew dispute the proposition that the Second World War marked the beginning of the end of colonialism in Africa. The thesis developed by Hodgkin (1956), Crowder (1968, 1978) and Schachter-Morgenthau (1964)—that coalitions of African veterans, disgruntled planters, peasants and chiefs gave rise to anti-colonialist, nationalist political movements in the immediate post-war era—has not been seriously challenged. The general acceptance of this view has resulted in a neglect of the history of the colonies during the war years themselves. While there is now a growing interest in this

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Jones, Adam, and Yann Deffontaine. "Guerre et Societe au Royaume de Fetu (Efutu). Des Debuts du Commerce Atlantique a la Constitution de la Federation Fanti (Ghana, Cote de l'Or), 1471-1720." International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, no. 2 (1995): 438. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/221656.

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Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari. "The Public Interest Safeguards in Arbitration in Ghana." African Journal of International and Comparative Law 28, no. 4 (2020): 677–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2020.0345.

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Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) claims mostly challenge public interest regulatory measures. This has led to efforts to reform international investment agreements (IIAs), with some states terminating them. Orthodox capital protection-centred scholarship maintains support for IIAs, claiming they are necessary to attract investment for development. Policy space-centred critical scholarship rejects or is critical of IIAs saying their limitations on regulatory autonomy are unjustifiable because private capital alone cannot lead to development. An assessment of public interest safeguards i

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Mubangizi, John Cantius. "The Constitutional Protection of Socio-Economic Rights in Selected African Countries: A Comparative Evaluation." African Journal of Legal Studies 2, no. 1 (2006): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221097312x13397499736345.

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AbstractThis article evaluates the extent to which a few selected African countries have incorporated socio-economic rights in their constitutions, the mechanisms through which such rights are realised, the challenges such realisation entails and the approach taken by the courts and other human rights institutions in those countries towards the realisation and enforcement of those rights. The survey examines South Africa, Namibia, Uganda and Ghana. Apart from the logical geographical spread, all these countries enacted their present constitutions around the same time (1990 to 1996) in an attem

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Rathbone, Richard. "A Murder in the Colonial Gold Coast: Law and Politics in the 1940s." Journal of African History 30, no. 3 (1989): 445–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700024476.

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This article looks at a murder case which resulted from allegations of ‘ritual murder’ in the course of Nana Sir Ofori Atta's final funeral rites in Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana, in 1944. At the level of the Akyem state, the accusations came from an affronted section within the polity, the Amantow Mmiensa, who had been defeated by the Stool in the course of the 1932–3 disturbances arising from the Native Administration Revenue Ordinance but whose grievances against the Okyenhene were of greater antiquity. The accused were all descendants of past kings of Akyem. At the level of the Gold Coast state, th

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Gyampo, Ransford Edward Van, and Emmanuel Graham. "Constitutional hybridity and constitutionalism in Ghana." Africa Review 6, no. 2 (2014): 138–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2014.916846.

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Sarpong, Sam. "Building bridges or gates? Gated communities’ escape from reality." International Journal of Social Economics 44, no. 12 (2017): 1584–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2016-0103.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at the emergence of “gated communities” in Ghana. It explores gated communities as a nexus of social and spatial relations within the context of urban inequality. It is concerned with the phenomenon in which the rich now live in isolation behind barbed wires and gates, fearing for their lives and properties. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a sociological approach to the study. It does so initially by focusing on the social constitution of a gated community. The gate becomes a focal point of the analysis because by its function, it separ

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Stevens, Joanna. "Colonial relics I: the requirement of a permit to hold a peaceful assembly." Journal of African Law 41, no. 1 (1997): 118–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300010020.

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In November 1993, in the case of NPP v. Inspector-General of Police, Archer, CJ., in striking down Ghanaian legislation providing for the licensing of peaceful assemblies, stated rhetorically:“… police permits are colonial relics and have no place in Ghana in the last decade of the twentieth century. …Those who introduced police permits in this country do not require police permits in their own country to hold public meetings and processions. Why should we require them?”Over the last three years, possible justifications for the retention of laws requiring that a permit be obtained prior to hol

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Mawutor, John Kwaku Mensah. "EXAMINATION OF RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURE AND COMPLIANCE AMONG LISTED GHANAIAN BANKS." Indian Journal of Finance and Banking 5, no. 1 (2021): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.46281/ijfb.v5i1.960.

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This study examined the compliance level of IAS 24, “Related Party Disclosures” of banks in Ghana and determined some firm specific characteristic that influence the level of disclosure. Using the quantitative research approach, the study was conducted on thirteen banks in Ghana constituting 56% of the entire population. Secondary data was obtained from annual reports of the banks and related published articles. The study again identified the most common type of related party transactions done by Banks in Ghana. Findings revealed that the level of compliance with IAS 24 among Banks in Ghana is

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Abdulai, Emmanuel Saffa. "Constitutional Theories, International Legal Doctrines and Jurisprudential Foundation for State of Emergency." IALS Student Law Review 8, no. 1 (2021): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14296/islr.v8i1.5266.

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The conceptualisation of a state of emergency has emerged in the discourse of politics, international human rights and constitutional law as the most potent threat to the full realisation and implementation of constitutional and international human rights. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, state of emergency has become a tool for the violation of fundamental human rights not only in the West African region, but globally. This article seeks to examine the concept of state of emergency in international law and constitutional jurisprudence in order to understand whether recent claims of many

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Dagbanja, Dominic Npoanlari. "The Changing Pattern and Future of Foreign Investment Law and Policy in Ghana: The Role of Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements." African Journal of Legal Studies 7, no. 2 (2014): 253–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12302023.

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This article assesses the implications of investment promotion and protection agreements (ippas) for domestic investment law and policymaking in Ghana. It reviews the terms of domestic investment legislation prior to and after Ghana entered into ippas to ascertain the differences in the content of domestic laws and the role of the ippas in the changing pattern of foreign investment law and policy in Ghana. The review shows fundamental differences. Whereas, for example, under the pre-investment treaty domestic investment laws, a proposed investment could be admitted only if it would contribute

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Atuguba, Raymond A., Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu, and Vitus Gbang. "Statelessness in West Africa: An Assessment of Stateless Populations and Legal, Policy, and Administrative Frameworks in Ghana." Journal on Migration and Human Security 8, no. 1 (2020): 14–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331502419900771.

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Executive Summary Drawing on qualitative interviews that are complemented by the analysis of government policy documents, this study examines statelessness in Ghana. It addresses a range of policy, legal, institutional, administrative, and other politico-socioeconomic matters attendant to the concept. The study defines statelessness in its strict legal sense. It recognizes populations at risk of statelessness that may be restricted from benefiting from the protection and privileges of their host state. Persons identified by the study as stateless or at risk of statelessness include persons fro

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Donkor, David A. "Selling the President: Stand-Up Comedy and the Politricks of Indirection in Ghana." Theatre Survey 54, no. 2 (2013): 255–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557413000057.

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On 15 May 1995, the Alliance for Change (AFC), a coalition of opposition leaders in Ghana, organized a demonstration that came to be known by the name Kume Preko (which translates as “Kill me once and for all”) to protest the government's new value-added tax (VAT) policy. During the demonstration, armed supporters of Jerry Rawlings, Ghana's president, set upon the marchers, killing four people, including a fourteen-year-old boy. The AFC charged that members of the ruling party were implicated in the killings. It also dismissed a police report on the incident as a “cheap and fraudulent cover-up

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Atupare, Atudiwe P. "A fundamental law of reason and the constitutional law of elections in Africa." Journal of Comparative Law in Africa 8, no. 1 (2021): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47348/jcla/v8/i1a1.

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This paper attempts a comparative understanding of the constitutional law of elections in two African countries: Ghana and Nigeria. As a prelude, I argue that judges should approach the task of interpretation of the constitutional law of elections based on a non-positivist understanding of legality or the rule of law. Law is not to be regarded simply as the product of lawmakers’ decisions and intentions but as embodying fundamental values that gain normative force independently of what is decided, written or intended by lawmakers. The core of this claim is anchored on a theory of law, the fund

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