Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Complex Maze of History, Geography, Institutions, and Politics: The Quagmire of Northern Ghana’s Development
(M. H. A Bolaji and A. A. Apusigah, Department of Social, Political and Historical Studies (SPHS), FIDS, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana, and others)
Chapter 2. Cultural Impediments to Development in Northern Ghana: Personal Experiences
(Wyatt MacGaffey, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA)
Chapter 3. In Search of Moses: The Entrepreneurial Leadership Disconnect and Stuttering Development Agenda of Northern Ghana
(Hippolyt. A. S. Pul, Institute of Peace and Development, Tamale, Ghana)
Chapter 4. A Trilateral Blame Game of Northern Ghana’s Underdevelopment: The British Colonial Administration, the Post-Colonial Governments or the “Beasts within”?
(Mariama Marciana Kuusaana, Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ashanti, Ghana)
Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Conflict and Peace: Interrogating Chieftaincy and Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghana
(Awaisu Imurana Braimah and Cletus Kwaku Mbowura, Department of Political Science, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and others)
Chapter 6. A Checkered Legal Pluralism and the Dagbon Succession Conflict: Modernity and Tradition as Inharmonious Bedfellows
(M. H. A. Bolaji, Department of Social, Political and Historical Studies (SPHS), FIDS, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana)
Chapter 7. Brother to Brother, Sister to Sister Talk: Resolving the Dagbon Chieftaincy Dispute Using the Lenses of Restorative Justice
(Hippolyt. A. S. Pul, Institute of Peace and Development, Tamale, Ghana)
Chapter 8. Colonial Tyranny or African Initiative? Chieftaincy among the Dagara and Sisala of North-Western Ghana
(Carola Lentz, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Chapter 9. “This Situation Is Incongruous in the Extreme”: The History of Land Policies in the Upper Regions of Ghana
(Christian Lund, Development of Resource Management and Governance, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Chapter 10. Public Education Spending in Northern Ghana: Implications for Regional Inequality
(Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Department of Public Administration, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana)
Chapter 11. Rethinking Northern Ghana’s Development in the Context of the Fourth Republic
(Agnes Atia Apusigah, Faculty of Education, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana)
Chapter 12. Youth Outmigration from Northern Ghana: Male-Female Dynamics
(Felicia Safoa Odame and Emmanuel Wedam, Department of Social, Political and Historical Studies (SPHS), FIDS, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana, and others)
Chapter 13. The Savannah Accelerated Development (Programme) Authority: A Panacea for Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana?
(Fauster Agbenyo and Dominic Degraft Arthur, Department of Planning, University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana, and others)
Chapter 14. Weathering the Storm: Northern Ghana’s Development and the Need for a New Political Engineering
(A. A. Apusigah and M. H. A Bolaji, Faculty of Education (FoE), University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale, Ghana, and others)
Index