Download or read book Chasing the Elephant Into the Bush written by Arthur Kennedy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "CHASING THE ELEPHANT INTO THE BUSH" is an insider's account of how the governing New Patriotic Party lost power in the closest elections in Africa's history. The writer believes that providing an accurate account will begin the process of correcting the rumours, lies and myths that are out there about the 2008 elections in Ghana. Throughout, the book is liberally sprinkled with quotes and historical references that makes it very informative and interesting. He begins with the state of the nation and the governing party as Ghana approached 2008. He then takes the reader through the NPP primary and his own experiences as a losing candidate. There is candid discussion of the rivalries in the campaign that undermined its effectiveness. He takes the reader inside meetings and quotes some of the key players at key moments in the campaign. There is candid discussion of the roles of the media, the security forces and civil society. The identification of issues and their use in the campaign is discussed thoroughly. While his sympathies are never in doubt, he is very objective and acknowledges the mistakes made by the campaign, the government and the party. He credits the NDC Campaign for doing certain things well. Amongst these are the deployment of President Mills and former President Rawlings as well as Vice-President John Mahama. He reveals the roles of key people, including the President, the Presidential candidate and powerful groups, like the "Kyebi Mafia". He offers candid assessments of all the key players. He suggests reasons for the NPP defeat and the way to recapture power. This will be a very significant first cut and reference point for an account of the 2008 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ghana.
Download or read book Returning the Elephant into the City written by Charles K. Addo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this book are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the New Patriotic Party. Ghana faces socio-economic problems that require solutions by experienced and committed leadership, not inexperienced and uncommitted leadership. This book is a brief socio-economic analysis of Ghana and a lesson for the NPP as to why it was chased into the bush in 2008, and to serve as a guide in the return of the elephant into the city in 2016. The contract with Ghana is an implied adherence and commitment to certain systematic public policies aimed at quickening the pace of Ghanas socio-economic development for which a political party is elected into office to prosecute. The NDC government has neglected this contract, and the NPP has to revive and prosecute it for the well-being of Ghanaians. The Supreme Court petition of 2012 itself constituted an exonerative trial of the NDC governments narrative about the temperament, character, and disposition of the NPP presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo. The fact that the NDC government is presiding over unprecedented corruption scandals and financial indiscipline has tuned in voters deep desire for change. This book serves as an intervention to help avoid election violence.
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Ransford Tetteh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Elephant in the Bush written by Ian Redmond and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs depict elephants feeding, breeding, and defending themselves in their natural habitats.
Download or read book The Menageries written by James Rennie and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Galileo The Art of Ageing Mindfully written by Adam Ford and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness is a lifelong exercise and the older we get the more appreciative we can become of the practice. Galileo & The Art of Ageing Mindfully reveals how the father of modern science introduced a new era in our mindful understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. Adam Ford turns his telescope towards the stars to reveal a natural fusion of science and spirituality and to offer his own perspective on ageing. Questions of deep time and existence, and spiritual insights are shared alongside wise notes to his grandchildren. Add in a constellation of meditative insights, and Adam proves how our existential journey with ageing is the natural opportunity to experience the true benefits of mindfulness.
Download or read book Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa written by Charles Manga Fombad and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series engages with contemporary issues of constitutionalism in Africa. The first experiments in democratic and constitutional governance in Africa that started after independence were soon overtaken by dictatorships, and arbitrary and repressive rule. The pulling down of the Berlin Wall followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed new forces of democratization and new hopes for the establishment and entrenchment of constitutional governance and constitutionalism in Africa. This series is designed to identify, analyse, and promote serious discussion of the critical issues that can shape, refine, and deepen the consolidation of constitutionalism in Africa. Although comparative constitutional law has become a major field of legal scholarship, most of the extensive research that has been carried out has focused on long-established democracies. The only African country that has attracted sustained research interest from a comparative law perspective is South Africa. The few books that present perspectives on African comparative constitutional law focus narrowly and exclusively on developments in either Anglophone, Francophone, or Arabophone Africa without cutting across these divides. Yet, since 1990, Africa has been at the centre of profound and far-reaching constitutional developments. Little comparative research has been carried out to understand the nature of these constitutional changes, to review their impact on the ethos of constitutionalism on the continent, and to explore prospects for the future. The series aims to stimulate interest in comparative constitutional research and the different constitutional traditions operating in Africa by presenting a comprehensive analysis of the latest thinking, research, and practice. In this way, the series intends to fill the huge gap in the existing literature on comparative African constitutional law as well as point out to directions for future research. Book jacket.
Download or read book Identity Politics in Sub Saharan Africa written by Ishmael D. Norman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recent spate of military takeovers in Guinea, Mali, Chad, Niger and Guinea Bissau in West Africa, identity politics has been named as one of the motivations behind the military coups. The concern surrounding the elimination or minimization of discrimination in governance and the distribution of national wealth is of particular importance. This book promotes a sane approach to the sharing of the national ‘cake’: to adopt pragmatism and the principles of the Rule of Law, which are already enshrined in the respective constitutions of these nations. This book fills a gap in the literature and promotes equal participation and distribution of opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will educate politicians, ministries, agencies and departments, policy makers, non-governmental organizations engaged in development at the grass-roots levels, and academics and students of politics, security, religious studies and development.
Download or read book African Successes Volume I written by Sebastian Edwards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The first volume in the series, African Successes: Governments and Institutions considers the role governments and institutions have played in recent developments and identifies the factors that enable economists to predict the way institutions will function.
Download or read book Economies after Colonialism written by Lindsay Whitfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Ghana's strong democratic track record in recent decades, the economy remains underdeveloped. Industrial policies are necessary to transform the colonial trading economy that Ghana inherited at independence, but successive governments have been unwilling or unable to implement them. In this highly original interpretation, supported by new empirical material, Lindsay Whitfield exposes the reasons for why the Ghanaian economy remains underdeveloped and sets her theory in the wider African context. She offers a new way of thinking about the political economy of Africa that charts a clear path away from defining Africa in terms of neopatrimonial politics and that provides new conceptual tools for addressing what kind of business-state relations are necessary to drive economic development. As a study of Ghana that addresses both the economy and politics from early colonialism to the present day, this is a must-read for any student or scholar interested in the political economy of development in Africa.
Download or read book Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena written by Onyebadi, Uche T. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political campaigning affects numerous realms under the communication umbrella with each channel seeking to influence as many individuals as possible. In higher education, there is a growing scholarly interest in communication issues and subjects, especially on the role of music, in the political arena. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena provides innovative insights into providing music and songs as an integral part of sending political messages to a broader spectrum of audiences, especially during political campaigns. The content within this publication covers such topics as framing theory, national identity, and ethnic politics, and is designed for politicians, campaign managers, political communication scholars, researchers, and students.
Download or read book Beat about the Bush written by Trevor Carnaby and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling the gap between basic mammal guides and extensive academic texts, this resource answers everyday questions about mammals in an understandable fashion that will appeal to tourists, bush enthusiasts, and field guides. Addressing everything from how an elephant's trunk works to why the blue whale is not a fish, this question-and-answer guide includes more than 700 color photographs and a detailed section on tracks and signs, making it a must-have for anyone wanting to know about the mammals of the bush region.
Download or read book Parties Political Finance and Governance in Africa written by Rachel Sigman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major challenge for the advancement of democratic governance in Africa is the extraction of money by ruling parties from the state to fund their electoral campaigns and gain political advantage over opponents. Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman considers how, and with what consequences, party leaders control and access public funds to finance their political operations. Weaving together biographical data on government ministers, surveys of civil servants, elite interviews, and archival research, Sigman explains leaders' extraction strategies and connects these strategies to how politicians manage state personnel. In so doing, she challenges the perception of African states as uniformly weak and argues that effective government is possible even in contexts of widespread state politicization, corruption, and clientelism. Demonstrating the profound impact that extractive financing practices have on democratic institutions, Sigman illuminates and develops our understanding of “good governance” across the African continent.
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chasing the Adventure written by J. Alain Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Simmons is back in this thrilling tale of adventure set among the luxurious estates of Europe and the Balkans. When a business holiday in the rolling countryside of Hungary turns into an attempt on the lives of Matt and the beautiful Countess Atwood, he is forced into seeking revenge, especially when the Bosnian assassins make a second attempt at killing him. Join Matt while he tries to break up their drug-smuggling and human-trafficking ring, risking the lives of those around him in an all-out effort to make the guilty pay.
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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