786
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Who Knew the Minds of the People? Specialist Knowledge and Developmentalist Authoritarianism in Postcolonial Ghana

Pages 297-323 | Published online: 27 May 2011

References

  • Abloh, Fred, and Stephen Ameyaw. ‘A Historical Perspective on Community Development’. In Community Development Around the World, edited by Hubert Camfens. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997: 279–88.
  • Adamafio, Tawia. By Nkrumah's Side: The Labour and the Wounds. Accra: Westcoast Publishing, 1982.
  • Allman, Jean. ‘“Let Your Fashion be in Line with Our Ghanaian National Costume”: Nation, Gender, and the Politics of Cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana’. In Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress, edited by Jean Allman. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004: 144–65.
  • Allman, Jean. ‘Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana, 1959-1962’. Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 10, no. 2 (2008): 83–102.
  • Amedzro, Albert. Globalization, Non-formal Education and Rural Development. Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2005.
  • Amonoo, Ben. Ghana, 1957–1966: The Politics of Institutional Dualism. London: Allen and Unwin, 1981.
  • Batten, Thomas. Communities and their Development. London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
  • Biney, Ama. ‘Kwame Nkrumah's Political Thought in Exile, 1966–1972’. Journal of African History 50, no. 1 (2009): 81–100.
  • Branch, Daniel. Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War and Decolonisation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Brown, David. ‘Politics in the Kpandu Area of Ghana, 1925–1969’. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1977.
  • Burton, Andrew, and Michael Jennings. ‘Introduction: the Emperor's New Clothes? Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa’. International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, no. 1 (2007): 1–26.
  • Convention People's Party. The Constitution of the Convention People's Party (C.P.P.) (Revised) 1962. Accra: Guinea Press Limited, 1962.
  • Convention People's Party, Central Committee. Programme of the Convention People's Party for Work and Happiness. Accra: Guinea Press Limited, 1962.
  • Cooper, Frederick. ‘Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians’. Canadian Journal of African Studies 34, no. 2 (2000): 298–336.
  • Cooper, Frederick. ‘Possibility and Constraint: African Independence in Historical Perspective’. Journal of African History 49, no. 2 (2008): 167–96.
  • Dorvlo, Leonard K. T. Essays in Community Development. Ho, Ghana: Maxvin Publicity, 2006.
  • Drake, St Clair. ‘Some Observations on Interethnic Conflict as One Type of Intergroup Conflict’. Conflict Resolution 1, no. 2 (1957): 55–78.
  • Drake, St Clair. ‘Social Problems in West Africa’. In Social Work in West Africa: Report of the Seminar on Social Work in West Africa, edited by St Clair Drake and T. Peter Omari. Legon: Department of Sociology of the University of Ghana, 1962: 31–40.
  • Drake, St Clair. ‘Democracy on Trial in Africa’. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 354 (1964): 110–21.
  • Drake, St Clair. ‘Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience’. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 9, no. 2 (1978): 85–109.
  • Dunn, John, and Alexander Robertson. Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
  • Ferguson, James. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Fitch, Bob, and Mary Oppenheimer. Ghana: End of an Illusion. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966.
  • Gaines, Kevin. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of Carolina Press, 2006.
  • Gbedemah, Komla. ‘It will not be “Work and Happiness for all”: An Open Letter…’, 1962.
  • Ghana, Office of the Planning Commission. Seven-Year Development Plan: A Brief outline. Accra: Government Printing Department, 1963.
  • Ghana, Office of the Planning Commission. Seven-Year Plan for National Reconstruction and Development, Financial Years 1963/4–1969/70, Presented by the President to Parliament, January, 1964. Accra: Government Printing Department, 1964.
  • Gold Coast. Plan for Mass Literacy and Mass Education. Accra: Government Printer, 1951.
  • Jennings, Michael. ‘“We Must Run While Others Walk”: Popular Participation and Development Crisis in Tanzania, 1961-9’. Journal of Modern African Studies 41, no. 2 (2003): 163–87.
  • Jennings, Michael. ‘“A Very Real War”: Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s and 1960s’. International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, no. 1 (2007): 71–96.
  • Jopp, Keith, for the Department of Information Services. Ghana 1957. Accra: Printed by Brown, Knight and Truscott, for the Department of Information Services, 1957.
  • Killick, Tony. Development Economics in Action: A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana. London: Heinemann, 1978.
  • Lochhead, Andrew. A Reader in Social Administration. London: Constable, 1968.
  • Lochhead, Andrew. Changing Assumptions: A Personal Chronicle 1911–1999. Swansea: Printed by Dinefwr Press for AVS Lochhead, 1999.
  • Lonsdale, John. ‘Power and Resistance’. Journal of African History 38, no. 3 (1997): 520–2
  • Mamdani, Mahmood. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Manuh, Takyiwah. ‘Women and their Organisations During the Convention People's Party Period’. In The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah, edited by Kwame Arhin. Accra: Sedco Publishing, 1991.
  • Miescher, Stephan, and Edzodzinam Tsikata. ‘Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects’. Ghana Studies 12 (forthcoming).
  • Murillo, Bianca. ‘Market Relations: Retailing, Distribution and the Politics of Consumption’. Ph.D. diss., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2009.
  • Nkrumah, Kwame. Guide to Party Action: Address by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at the First Seminar at the Winneba Ideological School on 3rd February, 1962. Accra: Central Committee of Convention People's Party, 1962.
  • Nugent, Paul. Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier. Oxford: James Currey, 2002.
  • Omari, T. Peter. ‘Training and Research in Social Welfare in West Africa’. In Social Work in West Africa: Report of the Seminar on Social Work in West Africa, edited by St Clair Drake and T. Peter Omari. Legon: Department of Sociology of the University of Ghana, 1962: 111–16.
  • Owusu-Afriyie, Osei. ‘Official Opening Address’. In Social Work in West Africa: Report of the Seminar on Social Work in West Africa, edited by St Clair Drake and T. Peter Omari. Legon: Department of Sociology of the University of Ghana, 1962: 27–9.
  • Prah, Mansah. ‘Chasing Illusions and Realising Visions: Reflections on Ghana's Feminist Experience’. In Gender Activism and Studies in Africa, edited by Signe Arnfred et al. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004.
  • Quainoo, Anthony. ‘Community Development and Community Organisation for West Africa’. In Work in West Africa: Report of the Seminar on Social Work in West Africa, edited by St Clair Drake and T. Peter Omari. Legon: Department of Sociology of the University of Ghana, 1962: 70–4.
  • Rathbone, Richard. Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951–60. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
  • Rimmer, Douglas. Staying Poor: Ghana's Political Economy 1950 to 1990. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1992.
  • du Sautoy, Peter. Community Development in Ghana. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
  • Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
  • Skinner, Kate. ‘“It Brought Some Kind of Neatness to Mankind”: Literacy, Development and Democracy in 1950s Asante’. Africa: journal of the International African Institute 79, no. 4 (2009): 479–99.
  • Skinner, Kate. ‘From Pentecostalism to Politics: Mass Literacy and Community Development in Late Colonial Northern Ghana’. Paedagogica Historica 46, no. 3 (2010): 307–23.
  • Talton, Benjamin. The Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
  • Tetteh, M. N. ‘The Ghana Young Pioneer Movement: A Youth Organisation in the Kwame Nkrumah Era’. Paper presented at the Symposium on the Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah, Institute of African Studies, Legon, 1985, and Printed by Ghana Publicity Limited, 1999.
  • Tignor, Robert. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.
  • Tsikata, Edzodzinam. ‘Women's Political Organisations 1951–1987’. In The State, Development and Politics in Ghana, edited by Emmanuel Hansen and Kwame Ninsin. London: CODESRIA, 1989: 73–93.
  • Whitehead, Clive. Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1958–1983. London: I.B. Tauris, 2003.
  • Yarrow, Thomas. ‘Life/History: Personal Narratives of Development Amongst NGO Workers and Activists in Ghana’. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 78, no. 3 (2008a): 334–57.
  • Yarrow, Thomas. ‘Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana’. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31, no. 2 (2008b): 426–45.
  • Young, Tom. ‘The State and Politics in Africa’. Journal of Southern African Studies 25, no. 1 (1999): 149–54.
  • Younghusband, Eileen. ‘The Nature of Social Work’. In A Reader in Social Administration, edited by Andrew Lochhead. London: Constable, 1968: 49–76.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.