Ghana: Ethnic Land Rights In Western Ghana - Landlord–Stranger Relations In The Democratic Era

Ghana: Ethnic Land Rights In Western Ghana - Landlord–Stranger Relations In The Democratic Era   Catherine Boone, and Dennis Kwame Duku, 2012   In Citizen and Subject (1996), Mahmood Mamdani denounced the ‘bifurcated nature’ of the African state which, in his account, imposed ethnic hierarchy and chiefly despotism on rural dwellers while reserving democratic citizenship for the urban minority. Have twenty years of ‘decentralized democracy’ in many countries washed away these...

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