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Free Download Christopher L. Richards, "Cosmopolitanism and Women’s Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367694204 | PDF | pages: 267 | 89.8 mb
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments that reflect a distinctly Ghanaian cosmopolitanism.

Free Download Party-Voter Linkage in Africa: Ghana and Senegal in Comparative Perspective By Anja Osei (auth.)
2012 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 3531186124 | PDF | 2 MB
Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ?Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies.

Free Download Party-Voter Linkage in Africa: Ghana and Senegal in Comparative Perspective By Anja Osei (auth.)
2012 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 3531186124 | PDF | 2 MB
Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ?Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies.

Free Download Democracy and Dictatorship in Ghana and Tanzania By Robert Pinkney
1997 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0333631757 | PDF | 15 MB
An examination of the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the conditions which have made the emergence of multi-party politics possible in Ghana and Tanzania. The book looks at the balance of forces between governments and campaigners for pluralist democracy, and at the outcomes that emerged.

Free Download Emmanuel Wekem Kotia, "Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations "
English | ISBN: 0739196510 | 2016 | 262 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey, "Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy"
English | ISBN: 1498564666 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife – a form of West African music infusing Ghana’s traditional Akan dance rhythms and melodies with European instruments and harmonies – grew in popularity throughout the 20th century and hit its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Although women played significant roles in the evolution and survival of the genre, few of their contributions have been thoroughly explored or documented. Despite being disregarded and ignored in many spheres, female Highlife musicians thrived and became trailblazers in the Ghanaian music industry, making particularly vibrant contributions to Highlife music in the 1970s. This book presents the voices of female Highlife artists and documents the ideological transformations expressed through their musical works, exploring the challenges they confronted throughout their musical careers and their contributions to music and culture in Ghana.

Free Download Jeffrey Ahlman, "Ghana: A Political and Social History"
English | ISBN: 0755601564 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century later, when Ghana became the first sub-Saharan state to emerge from European colonial rule, it became a key site for a burgeoning, transnational, African anticolonial politics that drew activists, freedom fighters, and intellectuals from around the world. As the twentieth century came to a close, Ghana also became an international symbol of the putative successes of post-Cold-War African liberalization and democratization projects.