Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development in Ghana

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi; Prince Osei Wusu Adjei; Ali Yakubu Nyaaba; Eugenia Anderson

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Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development in Ghana

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Prince Osei Wusu Adjei, Ali Yakubu Nyaaba, Eugenia Anderson

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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This chapter draws from archival sources, published compendium of secondary literature and on historiographical technique, based on the central theme of continuity and change, to discuss how local governance has ensured community development. The lessons teased out from this discourse would have the propensity to shape the future. The narratives that follow have been categorized into themes including pre-colonial local government perspectives on Asante, Local Government in the colonial era, and then local government under Rawlings’ PNDC in the 1980s and the fourth republic, before finally examining the achievements and challenges of Ghana’s local government within the period with lessons for the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	21-42
Number of pages	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12378-8_2
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
ISSN (Print)	2198-7262
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-7270

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Historical Perspectives of Local Governance and Community Development in Ghana. / Adu-Gyamfi, Samuel; Adjei, Prince Osei Wusu; Nyaaba, Ali Yakubu et al.
Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer Nature, 2022. p. 21-42 (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development).

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