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Beyond ‘dust and mud’: Citizenship, governance, and the politics of peri-urban road infrastructure in Kumasi
Recommended Citation Asante, L. A., Ehwi, R. J., Abubakari, Z., Abbas, J., Boakye, Y. A. B., Asare, P. A.-J., & Quaye, V. (2026). Beyond...

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Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2024. Constitutional Identity and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. https:...

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Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa
Fombad, Charles M. and Nico Steytler. (Eds.). 2022. Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10...

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Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État
Khisa, Moses ad Christopher Day. (Eds.). 2022. Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État. Lynne Rienner Publishe...

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Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France
Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 2021. Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France. Yale Universi...

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Federalism in Africa in Comparative Perspective
Federalism is arguably one of the less explored subjects in African political studies.




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The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa
Bill Nasson. 2008. The was, the is and the might-have-been: Political leadership in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of African History,...
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A Shift in Western Development Agency Thinking? The Case for Second Best
Bekker, Simon and Norman Bromberger. 2016. A Shift in Western Development Agency Thinking? The Case for Second Best. Social Dynamics 42(3):5...

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Urban Life and Politics in Luanda, Angola
This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.

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Good policy; bad policy
This project proposes to examine three key policies, one in each ministry, in the form of a memoir on how decisions were taken and implemented.
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Opposition in African Politics: The Case of Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya
This research examines the idea of opposition in African politics against the backdrop of problems inherent in the democratization process in contemporary Africa with a view to analyzing their dimensions and implications for the development of the continent and her peoples.

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Post-apartheid state engagement with customary structures
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
