Download or read book Manuscript Found in Accra written by Paulo Coelho and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 International Bestselling author of THE ALCHEMIST reveals in this deeply thoughtful novel that the great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us. “There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing fear. Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms." 1099. Jerusalem awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the city’s gates. There, inside the ancient city’s walls, women and men of every age and faith have gathered to hear the wisdom of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. As the wise man speaks of loyalty, fear, bravery and solitude, of love, sex, beauty and elegance, his words offer truth and guidance, and reveal the human values that have endured throughout time—then as now, his words reveal who we are, what we fear and what we hope for the future.

Download or read book Accra City Guide written by Eric Maclean Ntiamoah Duah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accra City Guide-The Indispensable Companion, is an updated version of The City of Accra- A Pictorial Visit, an essential guide with comprehensive and thoroughly researched information specifically designed for the needs of potential tourists, business travellers, students and researchers. Written by a local host, this guide contains a comprehensive amount of information on the city, covering: ? History and contemporary culture and life of Accra ? Extensive coverage of the development of the city and its various suburbs ? Essential practical information on health and safety issues, transportation, communication, banking and currency exchange. ? Wide range of restaurants, and standard accommodations suitable for Kings, dignitaries and weary travellers alike ? Bustling markets, shops and various leisure destinations ? Historic landmarks and monuments ? Highlights of some of Ghanas unmissable tourist attractions like: Kakum National Park, and Ancient forts and castles of Cape Coast ? Beautiful, full-colour photographs and maps ? Directory of business services, leading organizations and government agencies all packed in this beautiful guide to provide you with the essential information you need for your visit. AKWAABA!!! (Welcome!!!)

Download or read book Accra Noir Akashic Noir written by Nana-Ama Danquah and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena. “Superb . . . Each story reaffirms how fundamental ‘place’ is to the noir genre and how the locale shapes the story as much as the characters themselves . . . Strongly recommended.” —Library Journal “There’s good writing as well as a strong sense of place and culture, and the reader will absorb a side of Accra that doesn’t make it into the tourist brochures.” —New York Journal of Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh, and Anna Bossman.

Download or read book Oxford Street Accra written by Ato Quayson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra's salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.

Download or read book WHO Urban Health Initiative in Accra Ghana written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambient and household air pollution are a major cause of death and disease globally. This public health threat is being increased due to the rapid urbanization process and environmental degradation that characterizes the 21st century and that have a higher impact in developing countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) Urban Health Initiative (UHI) is implemented as a response to the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution 68.8 from May 2015, which requests WHO to build health sector capacity to work with other sectors, support countries to identify effective policy measures, track progress, and continue to update the evidence for health impacts of air pollution. WHO conducted a pilot project in the city of Accra (Ghana) to address air pollution and related health effects in cities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The Initiative provides a health-based implementation framework to reduce deaths and diseases associated with air pollutants, and realize climate and other health benefits (e.g., less injuries and safe physical activity). Particular attention has been given to assessing the impacts of policies in sectors responsible for air pollution, specifically household energy, land-use, waste and transport activities. This report includes discussions on the main results and impacts of the pilot project conducted in Accra. And it provides guidance and available tools that can be adapted to similar initiatives around the world to assess the health impacts of air pollution, promote policies to reduce air pollution and plan healthier environments.

Download or read book The Mobile City of Accra written by Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a product of collaborative research between the Institut de recherche pour le dveloppement (IRD, France), the University of Ghana, Legon and CODESRIA. It examines various economic, social and environmental challenges of urbanization that critically affect the capital of Ghana, which has experienced high demographic growth and territorial expansion. The study analyses the Greater Accra city dwellers residential practices, and focuses on two main factors influencing land and rental markets. On the one hand, it interrogates the constraints and dynamics of urban families, their needs and gender characteristics in terms of accommodation. On the other hand, it explores the opportunities and interests in investment on the part of land owners and real estate developers. At these two levels of describing the social and spatial discriminations, the book attempts to explain the difficult choices that this fragmented city faces. It emphasizes the role of mobility in structuring the metropolitan area, and the negative impact of lack of mobility which results in some households and communities suffering more than others. Light is thrown on diagnostics and prospects in the matter of urban planning.

Download or read book in accra a superstar city written by Ashna S. Mathema and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A recent study of house price behavior in U.S. cities by Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai (2006) raises questions about so-called superstar cities in which housing is so inelastically supplied that it becomes unaffordable, as higher-income families outbid residents. We consider the case of Accra, Ghana, in this light, estimating the elasticity of housing supply and discussing the implications for growth and income distribution. There is not a great deal of data available to examine trends in Accra, so our method is indirect. First, we use a variant of the traditional monocentric city model to calculate the elasticity of Accra's housing supply relative to those of other similarly-sized African cities. This suggests that housing supply responsiveness is much higher elsewhere. This muted supply responsiveness is consistent with the observed higher housing prices. Second, we estimate a number of traditional housing demand equations and reduced form equations. Placing a number of restrictions on the equations allows us to infer Accra's housing supply elasticity. Taken together, our approaches suggest that lower-income families in Accra have such poor housing conditions because the market is extremely unresponsive to demand. Although the outcomes we have traced-high housing prices and low quality-are not unusual relative to the other developed country superstar cities, they are extreme. The welfare costs are considerable, so much so that in addition to direct housing market effects, these policies also appear to have potentially significant implications for the achievement of more equitable growth.

Download or read book Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra written by Steven Feld and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished scholar Steven Feld shaped the field of the anthropology of sound and music. In this new work, he looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, including some who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. He describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.

Download or read book Solid waste management and health in Accra Ghana written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ambient air pollution and health in Accra Ghana written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the objectives to reduce deaths and diseases associated with air and climate pollutants, and to enhance health co-benefits from policies and measures to tackle air and climate pollution, WHO has carried out, in cooperation with various international partners, an Urban Health Initiative (UHI). The UHI aims to mobilizing and empowering the health sector and using the sector’s influential position to promote the implementation of air and climate pollutant reduction strategies, and it intends to demonstrate to the public and decision-makers the full range of health and economic benefits to the local population, that can be achieved from implementing local emission reduction policies and strategies. This publication is part of a case study series that carried out in the UHI pilot project in Accra. This case study is aimed at discussing ambient air pollution and health impacts for specific scenarios of reduction of concentrations.

Download or read book The City of Accra A Pictorial Visit written by Eric Maclean Ntiamoah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana is a country located on the West coast of Africa, with a population of 22.4 million. It is bordered by Cote D'Ivore to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east, and covers a total land area of about 238,540 square kilometers. Former U.N. secretary general Mr. Kofi Annan comes from Ghana. Many who might have heard the name Ghana often mistook it for Guyana, a small country located on the northeastern coast of South America, with a population of about 800,000 and the capital being Georgetown. This book concentrates on Accra, the capital city of Ghana, not the entire country, and it seeks to educate people around the globe about this bustling city, which is fast developing into a modern city. It combines easy reading with facts about Ghana's political and social life, business opportunities, what to see, where to shop, where to stay, and where to eat and socialize with people. It also shows you pictures of various landmarks, neighborhoods, and districts that together make the city of Accra and the history behind them. It also provides you with information about the redenomination of Ghana's currency, the cedi, and the relationship that will exist between the old and the new currency. In short, this colorful book will serve as your tour guide to the central business district of Accra, the Independence Square, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, the fashionable district of Osu Oxford Street, Kaneshie Market, places of worship and many more. We urge you to read on and make a decision to visit.

Download or read book From Howe Street to Accra written by Frank James IV and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Howe Street to Accra is a fun, fast paced story of the behind the scenes making of the film Coming to Africa. The book details how an inexperienced journalist wound up being an assistant director on a motion picture. The book also talks about the obstacles that the US based crew had to overcome working in a foreign country. The book also depicts the mental trials a born loner has to overcome to reinvent himself and break out of the prison of his own mind.

Download or read book Urban Livelihoods and Food and Nutrition Security in Greater Accra Ghana written by Daniel Maxwell and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the nature of urban poverty and how it relates to food in-security and malnutrition in Accra, Ghana. By exploring the major determinants of food security and nutritional status, it develops indicators that are appropriate in an urban context, identifies vulnerable groups within the city, and suggests policies and programs to improve the lives of the urban poor. (Adapté du résumé).

Download or read book Accra Agenda for Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to strengthen and deepen implementation of the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) takes stock of progress and sets the agenda for accelerated advancement towards improving the quality and impact of aid.

Download or read book Child Laborers in Tema and Accra Metro Areas written by Isabel Cofie, and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is poverty and how does it affect family life and children in particular? How should children from an early age be socialized to menial labor? This seven-year research seeks to understand how girls are socialized in a modern traditionalistic society that is bent on stripping them of normal childhood and destined for a life of back-breaking and dangerous manual street labor for a long stretch of time in order to put food on the family table without quality of life and education for a career.

Download or read book Economic costs of air pollution in Accra Ghana written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic impact assessments play an essential role in supporting countries achieve their goals towards controlling air pollution and climate actions. The main objectives of this study were to assess the economic costs of selected diseases and road traffic injuries (RTI) to the public health sector, patients and their families in the metropolitan region of Accra, Ghana. The results shown that, although, all patients had some type of health care insurance, not all hospital costs were covered by this type of assistance. Patients and their families also faced high indirect costs, mainly related to the loss of income due to the illnesses. When we look at the distribution of indirect costs amongst those patients who work in the informal sector, costs were even more substantial for some categories of patients. Although air pollution affects everyone, the poor seem to suffer the most. About 45% of our sample were considered to be in the first and second quintiles of socioeconomic status (the poorest and poor), and the direct medical costs alone could represent double their annual earnings. In our sample, patients also refer to loans and selling their assets in order to cover hospital costs.

Download or read book Measures and Determinants of Urban Food Security Evidence from Accra Ghana written by Tukolske, Cascade and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban population in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) is expected to expand rapidly from 376 million people in 2015 to more than 1.25 billion people by 2050. Measuring and ensuring food security among urban households will become an increasingly pertinent task for development researchers and practitioners. In this paper we characterize food security among a sample of low- and middle-income residents of Accra, Ghana, using 2017 survey data. We find that households tend to purchase food from traditional markets, local stalls and kiosks, and street hawkers, and rarely from modern supermarkets. We characterize food security using three established metrics: the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS); the Household Food Insecurity Access Prevalence (HFIAP); and the Food Consumption Score (FCS). We then estimate the determinants of food security using general linear models. The food security metrics are not strongly correlated. For example, according to HFIAP, as many as 70 percent of households sampled are food insecure, but only 2 percent fall below acceptable thresholds measured by FCS. Model results show that household education, assets, and dwelling characteristics are significantly associated with food security according to HFIAS and HFIAP, but not with FCS. The poor correlation and weak model agreement between the dietary recall metric, FCS, and the experience-based metrics, HFIAS and HFIAP, call for closer attention to measurement of urban food security. Given Africa’s urban future, our findings highlight the need for an urban-oriented comprehensive approach to the food security of urban households.