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State Funding Of Political Parties In Ghana: Exploring The Views Of Card-Holding And Non-Card Holding Party Members, Emmanuel K. Sakyi, Kinsley S. Agomor
State Funding Of Political Parties In Ghana: Exploring The Views Of Card-Holding And Non-Card Holding Party Members, Emmanuel K. Sakyi, Kinsley S. Agomor
African Social Science Review
Although Ghana has made significant progress in the establishment and consolidation of democratic politics since 1992, the vexatious issue of the use of scarce public resources to support political party activities remained unresolved. Using quantitative data an attempt is made in this study to examine the views of Ghanaians on the arguments for and against state funding of political parties. The data for the study was obtained through survey of 1600 self-declared card-holding and 200 self-declared non-card holding members of the seven political parties that contested the 2012 general elections. Convenience and stratified sampling procedures were deployed for the selection …
Colonialism In The Stateless Societies Of Africa: A Historical Overview Of Administrative Policies And Enduring Consequences In Southern Zaria Districts, Nigeria, Aliyu Yahaya
African Social Science Review
An unapologetic perspective in the study of colonialism in Africa is currently reasserting itself forcefully. It sees the colonial experience as a mere sporadic change initiated by the need to use traditional institutions in the administration of the natives. It assumes that the responses of the natives had imposed some restrictions on the creative disposition of the colonial overlords. With evidence from some Stateless societies of Nigeria this article shows that colonialism had been occasioned by currents that denaturalized the social order to the extent that traditional institutions used lost their traditionalness hence ushering changes that were decisive in nature …
A Multilateral Approach For Optimizing Africa’S Access To Strategic Human Talent, Kendra J. Brumfield, Harvey L. White
A Multilateral Approach For Optimizing Africa’S Access To Strategic Human Talent, Kendra J. Brumfield, Harvey L. White
African Social Science Review
This paper considers Africa’s human development capacity through a talent management and development framework. It uses information from the United Nations, the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the African Union, and a variety of other sources to illustrate both the talent challenges and opportunities facing African countries, institutions, and organizations. Through a comparison of management models, historiography, content analysis, and case studies, it argues that the five options for talent development (stealing, buying, borrowing, developing, and retaining talent) that have impacted its past and present access to talent can be redirected towards the continent’s future …