Latest Past Events
Public Lecture: Ablɔɖe! The Axis of Extremist Discontent of the Western Togoland Secessionist Movement in Ghana: The Old, the New and the Grey; Speaker: Nene-Lomotey Kuditchar
via Zoom Abstract: Ghana’s post Fourth Republican encounter with extremism anchored on the secession of Western Togoland raises a pertinent question: under what conditions does extremism fester in a context of democratic cultural autonomy? The Western Togoland Secessionist Movement, which has persisted under various guises since 1946, has its current phase overlapping with the establishment ... Read more
Public Lecture: Party Primaries in Ghana: A Conjoint Survey Experiment; Speakers: Anja Osei & Gbensuglo Alidu Bukari
Abstract: Especially, in competitive systems like Ghana, the electoral success of a party is at least in part a function of appropriate candidate selection. Both NPP and NDC hold party primaries in which grassroots delegates at the local level elect candidates for parliamentary elections. The literature on these important processes has however remained scarce. On ... Read more
Conference: Restitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation (The 4Rs) in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?
at University of Ghana Organizers: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group "The 4 Rs in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?" (IFG 5) This was the closing workshop of an international Fellow Group at MIASA (University of Ghana). The aim of the group was to open up the dichotomous visions of the restitution debate by focusing on a case study: ... Read more
