IIAS ANNUAL NEWSLETTER

APRIL 2013 Director’s welcome

Welcome to IIAS, a very special research instute locat- ed in Accra, but with an internaonal outlook. It brings together scholars based in Ghana and abroad, connects local and internaonal scholarly debates, and facilitates dialogue between researchers and policy makers. Our website and this newsleer provides details of IIAS’s history, vision and mission, research clusters and publi- caons of fellows, so I will use the rest of this brief wel- come address to flag key developments in the past two years. IIAS in August 2011 moved its offices to Internaonal House on the University of Ghana campus. This move has enabled it to benefit from both intellectual and ad- ministrave synergies. With office space and a seminar room/library that seats 50 people comfortably, our move to Legon has promoted our seminars and collo- quia and given us more visibility. Oyarifa connues to funcon as the residenal facility for IIAS. In 2011 we also recruited a dynamic execuve administrator, Sabina Akwei Yeboah, to head our administraon. Our office personnel are bilingual (English and French), reflecng We have also recently appointed Ama de-Gra Aikins to our engagement with our francophone neighbors. serve as deputy director, and are presently expanding our board of advisors. In ending, there are two specific re- IIAS has welcomed a number of new fellows since 2010: search iniaves at the Instute that I would like to flag. Joshua Abor in finance, Lloyd Adu-Amoah in internaon- The first reviews African cies from mul-disciplinary per- al relaons (including China-Africa relaons), and Olivia specves with a focus on everyday life and the semiocs of Kwapong in gender, adult and connuing educaon. urbanism, built environment and the polics of space, This year, we will welcome Edward Kissi into fellowship, town planning, sanitaon and health. The second interro- a diplomac historian with experse in human rights, gates women and economic growth and development in genocide and famine relief. The Instute also affiliates Africa, with parcular emphasis on female entrepreneur- senior scholars in the capacity of “research professors” ship. Here we are especially interested in examining the and younger scholars in the capacity of “vising re- synergies between female economic acvity in the formal searchers.” We welcome opportunies to incubate or and informal economies; how to scale up small and medi- house projects led by foreign-based scholars that mesh um scale enterprises through technology and adult educa- with IIAS’s research agenda. on; and the processes by which female entrepreneurs can In January 2013, I assumed the directorship of the Ins- be relocated from the informal to the formal economies. tute, and would want to express my sincere apprecia- These are excing mes for the Instute and we acvely on for the years of the Instute’s leadership under Ire- encourage collaboraon with other scholars and instu- ne Odotei. ons. Page 2 ABOUT US

The Internaonal Instute for the Advanced Study of Cultures, Instuons and Economic Enterprise (IIAS) has been established in Accra, Ghana, to pursue mul-disciplinary research into African cultures, instuons (legal, social, cultur- al, polical, economic, health), enterprise and everyday life as a plaorm for instuonal reform and the creaon of more supple structures to meet new challenges. Its quest is to develop African soluons to African problems, informed by current internaonal scholarship, best policy pracces, and emerging out of dialogue between academic research- ers, policy makers, and government officials. (Read more on www.interias.org.gh)

RESEARCH CLUSTERS The instute currently has six research areas which are organised around fellows’ disciplines and areas of experse: (1) Health (2) Finance and Polical Economy (3) Law and Ethics; (4) Gender and Development (5) Cies and Everyday Life (6) Policy and Internaonal Relaons. Generally each research block begins with an internaonal workshop or roundtable, which generates a set of research quesons for fellows to develop projects around. The projects, though framed from the unique perspecves of parcular disciplines, are conceptualized as mul-disciplinary drawing on internal experse and from collaboraons with vising fellows.

1. Health (Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong and Prof. Ama de-Gra Aikins) 2. Finance and Polical Economy (Prof. Joshua Abor and Dr. William Baah-Boateng) 3. Law and Ethics (Dr. Raymond Atuguba) 4. Gender and Development (Prof. Irene K. Odotei and Prof. Olivia Kwapong) 5. Cies and Everyday Life (Prof. Ato Quayson) 6. Human Rights and Internaonal Relaons (Dr. Lloyd Adu Amoah and Dr. Edward Kissi)

IIAS MAJOR CONFERENCES

1. Understanding African Poverty over the Long Duree - July 2010 2. AFRICA’S NEGLECTED EPIDEMIC: Muldisciplinary research, Intervenon and Policy for Chronic Diseases 3. Workshop on Agricultural and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. Africa, Europe and the Americas: 1500 - 1700; A Two Week Workshop

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IIAS Projects

Vising Fellows African Humanies Program (AHP) Fellowship

Since 2009, IIAS has hosted several Fellows from vari- ous African countries on the African Humanies Pro- gram (AHP). AHP Fellows from other African countries take up resi- dencies with IIAS for a period of about two to three months to enable them carry out their research and wring. The American Council of Learned Sociees (ACLS), in U.S.A provides vising fellows with residen- al spends. Some AHP Fellows and Prof. Irene K. Odotei (2nd left) of IIAS The main objecve of this programme is to foster in a photograph 12-3-2013 scholarly exchange and intellectual community among Fellows of African Humanies.

“Internaonal Remiances, Poverty and Inequali- ty, the West Africa Case”.

IIAS, in collaboraon with Centre Ivoirien de Re- cherche Econonomiques et Sociales (CIRES), and the Centre for Demographic and Allied Research (CDAR) carried out a study on Internaonal Re- miances, Poverty and Inequality. This three- country study commenced in 2010 and ended in January 2013. The Project was funded by the In- Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong at a Focus group discussion - ternaonal Development Research Centre (IDRC). Nsawam 20-06-2010 The Project sought to analyse the impact of inter- naonal remiances flow on naonal development in West Africa using Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria as empirical case studies.

Page 4 Updates from IIAS Fellows’ latest publicaonsPAGE 4

IIAS is organised around nine fellows with established careers in history, finance, economics, cultural and literary studies, law, gender and policy studies, social psychology and health and internaonal relaons.

Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong’s publicaons (2010 – present)

Books  Emmanuel Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Chief Editors), Diconary of African Biography, 6 Vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

 Emmanuel Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr., “African Lives: An Introducon,” in Akyeampong and Gates, eds., Diconary of African Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), xxix-xxiv.

Journals

 “For Prayer and Profit: West Africa’s Religious and Economic Ties to the Gulf 1960s to the Present.” Journal of African Develop- ment, 12:1 (Spring 2010), 7-20.

 “‘Diasporas’, Mobility and the Social Imaginary: Geng Ahead in West Africa.” Journal of Third World Studies, 27:1 (Spring 2010), 25-41.

 “Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Asia: Changing Dynamics in Contemporary West Africa’s Polical Economy,” Journal of African Devel- opment, 13: 1 (Spring 2011), 73-105.

 Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack, “The Contribuon of African Women to Economic Growth and Development: His- torical Perspecves and Policy Implicaons – Part I: The Pre-colonial and Colonial Periods.” World Bank, Policy Research Working Pa- per, WPS 6051, April 2012.

 “Ties that Bound: Slave Concubines/Wives and the End of Slavery in the Gold Coast, c.1874-1900,” in Anne V. Adams, ed., Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70 (Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd., 2012), 231-40. “The African Voice in African Studies To- day,” in Helen Lauer and Kofi Anyidoho, eds., Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanies through African Perspecves, 2 Vols. (Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2012), 2: 982-989.

Professor Irene K. Odotei

Professor Odotei is the author of several publicaons, including Sea Power, Money Power: Migraon of Gha- naian Fishermen and Women to the Republic of Benin (2000); The Arsanal Marine Fishing Industry: A His- torical Review (2002); and Royal Rites: Death, Burial and Installaon of an Asante King (2001). Her film docu- mentaries have reviewed the funeral of the late Asantehene (King of Asante) Opoku Ware II and the installa- on of the present Asantehene Osei Tutu II.

Some of her film documentaries include:

 ‘Odupon Kesie Etutu’, (A Mighty tree has Fallen), A Video Documentary on the death and burial of the late Otumfuo Opoku- Ware II, Asantehene. Execuve Producer Producer/Coordinator

 ‘Go Mu Brebre’ - AYIKESIE (The Great Funeral), A Video Documentary on the final funeral rites for the late Otumfuo Opoku Ware II.

 Fetu Afahye, A video documentary of the Fetu fesval of the Chiefs and people of the Oguaa Tradional Area

 Afro European relaons, slave trade, collaboraon and trade.

Professor Ato Quayson’s publicaons (2010 – present) Page 5 Books  Oxford St., Accra: Urban Evoluon, Street Life and Transnaonalism. In press (Duke University Press, 2013).  Blackwell Companion to Diaspora and Transnaonalism Studies, ed. with Girish Daswani. In press (New York: Blackwell, 2013).  The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, ed., 2 volumes. (Cambridge University Press, 2012).  Labor Migraon, Human Trafficking, and Mulnaonal Corporaons, with Antonela Arhin, (London: Routledge, 2012) Selected Essays  “Africa’s Diverse Diasporas”, in The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Graham Huggan. In press (Oxford: Ox- ford University Press, 2013).  “The Sighs of History: Postcolonial Debris and the Queson of (Literary) History, New Literary History 43.1, (2012): 359-370.  “Periods versus Concepts: Space Making and the Queson of Postcolonial Literary History:, PMLA 127.2 (2012): 342-348.  “Coevalness, Recursivity and the Feet of Lionel Messi”, Special Forum on Jean and John Comaroff, Theory from the South, Cul‐ tural Anthropology 27.1, 2012.  “Self-Wring and Existenal Alienaon in African Literature: Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God”, Research in African Literatures 42.2 (March, 2011): 30-45.  “Kòbòlò Poecs: African Urban Scripts and Readerships”, New Literary History 41.1 (2010): 413-438.  “Signs of the Times: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life”, City & Society 22.1 (2010): 77-96.  “Ausm, Narrave, and Emoons: On Samuel Becke’s Murphy” Special Issue on Narrave and the Emoons, The University of Toronto Quarterly, 79.2 (2010): 838-865.  “Colonial Space-making and hybridizing history, or ‘Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?’” in Diasporas: Concepts, Intersecons, Idenes, eds. Kim Kno and Sean McLoughlin, (London: Zed Books, 2010), pp. 243-248.

Professor Joshua Abor’s publicaons (2010 – present) Book Menya, K. and Abor, J. (2012), Finance and Development in Africa, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK

Journal Arcles  Ofoeda, I., Abor, J. and Adjasi, C. (2012), Non-Bank Financial Instuons Regulaon and Risk-Taking, Journal of Financial Regulaon and Compliance, 20(4), pp.433 – 450.  Agbloyor, E., Abor, J., Adjasi, C. and Yawson, A. (2012), Domesc Banking Sector Development and Cross Border Mergers and Acquisions in Africa, Review of Development Finance, Vol. 2(1), pp. 32 – 42.  Abor, J., Bokpin, G. and Fiawoyife, E. (2011), Taxes and Corporate Borrowing: Empirical Evidence from Selected African Coun- tries, Journal of African Business, 12(2), 287-303.  Abor, J., Graham, M. and Yawson, A., (2011), Corporate Governance and Restructuring Acvies following Completed Bids, Corporate Governance: An Internaonal Review, Vol. 19(1), pp. 61-76  Ansah-Adu, K., Andoh, C. and Abor, J. (2011), Evaluang the Cost Efficiency of Insurance Companies in Ghana, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol 13(1), pp. 61-76.  Manu, L. Adjasi, C. Abor, J., Harvey, S. (2011), Financial Stability and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study, Internaonal Journal of Financial Services Management, 5(2), 121-138.  Abor, P., Abekah-Nkrumah, G., Adjasi, C., Sakyi, K. and Abor, J. (2011), The Socio-economic Determinants of Maternal Health Care Ulizaon in Ghana, Internaonal Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38(7), pp.628 – 648.  Odonkor, T., Osei, K., Abor, J. and Adjasi, C. (2011), Bank Risk and Performance, Internaonal Journal of Financial Services Man‐ agement, 5(2), 107 – 120.  Abekah-Nkrumah, G., Abor, P.A., Abor, J. and Adjasi, C. (2011), Improving Maternal Healthcare Ulisaon in sub-Saharan Africa through Microfinance, Internaonal Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 24(8),pp. 601-610.  Abor, J. (2010), Do Export Status and Export Intensity Increase Firm Performance?, Thunderbird Internaonal Business Review, 53(1), pp. 9-18. PAGE 8  Abor, J. (2010), PROFESSOR Foreign Direct Investment OLIVIA and FirmKWAPONG’S Producvity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data, Global Business and Econom‐ ics Review, Vol. 12(4), pp. 267-285..  Abor, J. and Bokpin, G. (2010), Investment Opportunies, Corporate Finance and Dividend Payout Policy: Evidence from Emerg- Page 6 PAGE 6 Professor Ama de-Gra Aikins’ publicaons (2010 – present) Peer-reviewed journal arcles (selected)  de-Gra Aikins, A, Boynton, P. and Atanga, L.L. (2010) Developing Effecve Chronic Disease Preven- on in Africa: insights from Ghana and Cameroon. Globalizaon and Health, 6:6.  de-Gra Aikins, A., Unwin, N., Agyemang, C. Allotey, P., Campbell, C and Arhinful, D.K. (2010). Tack- ling Africa’s Chronic Disease Burden: from the local to the global (Editorial). Globalizaon and Health, 6:5.  de-Gra Aikins, A. (2010). Beyond “Food is Medicine”: Evaluang the impact of Ghana’s Regenera- ve Health and Nutrion Pilot Programme. Ghana Social Science Journal, 7(1), 14‐35.  Benne, S, Corluka, A., Jane Doherty, J., Tangcharoensathien, V., Patacharanarumoi, W., Amar Jesani, A., Kyabaggu, J., Namaganda, G., Hussain, A.M.Z., de-Gra Aikins, A. (2011). Influencing policy change: the experience of health think tanks in low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy and Planning, 1-10.  Abanilla, P.K.A., Huang, K-Y, Shinners, S, Levy, A, Kojo Ayernor, K., de-Gra Aikins, A, Ogedegbe, O. (2011). Cardiovascular Disease Prevenon in Ghana: Feasibility of a Faith-Based Organizaonal Approach to Prevenon. Bullen of the World Health Organizaon, 89, 648-656.  de-Gra Aikins , A., Arhinful, D.K., Pitchforth, E., Ogedegbe, O., Allotey, P., Agyemang, C. (2012). Establishing and Sustaining Research Partnerships in Africa: a case study of the UK-Africa Academic Partnership on Chronic Disease. Globalizaon and Health, 8: 29.  de-Gra Aikins A, Addo J, Bosu, WK., Ofei, F., Agyemang, C. (2012) Ghana’s burden of chronic non-communicable diseases: prospects and challenges for research, pracce and policy. Editorial. Ghana Medical Journal. 46(2), 1-4.  de-Gra Aikins, A. (2012). Familiarizing the unfamiliar: cognive polyphasia, emoons and the creaon of social representa- ons. Papers on Social Representaons, 21, 7.1-7.28.  Leone, T., Coast, E., Narayanan, S and de-Gra Aikins, A. (2012) Diabetes and depression comorbidity within poor sengs in low and middle income countries (LMICs): a mapping of the evidence. Globalizaon and Health, 8:39.  de-Gra Aikins, A, Pitchforth, E., Allotey, P., Ogedegbe, G., Agyemang, C. (2013). Culture, ethnicity and chronic condions: reframing concepts and methods for research, intervenon and policy in low and middle income countries. Editorial. Ethnici‐ ty & Health, 17(6), 1-10.  Agyemang, C., de-Gra Aikins, A, Bhopal, R. (2013). Ethnicity and Cardiovascular health research: pushing the boundaries by including comparison populaons in the countries of origin. Ethnicity and Health, 17(6).  Van der Vijver, S. Addo, J., de-Gra Aikins, A, Agyemang, C. (2013). Review of community based intervenons for prevenon of cardiovascular diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Ethnicity and Health, 17(6).

Dr. William Baah-Boateng’s publicaons (2010 – present)  Baah-Boateng W (2013) Employment Creation Challenges, Relevant Policies and Employment Promo‐ tion in Ghana in Ghana’s Employment Challenges Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences Publication, Accra Ghana, forthcoming  Aryeetey, E., Baah-Boateng, Ackah C, Mbiti, I and Lehrer, K. (2013) “Ghana” in Hino and Ranis (ed.) Youth and Employment in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Working but Poor, Routledge Publication, pp. 221-292, forth‐ coming  Baah-Boateng, W, Adjei P. and Oduro A. D. (2013) Determinants of Moonlighting in Ghana: An Empir- ical Investigation, African Review of Economics and Finance (AREF), Vol. 5, No. 1, December 2013, South Africa, forthcoming  Baah-Boateng, W. (2013) “Human Capital as a Vehicle for Africa’s Economic Transformation”, International Journal of Tech‐ nology and Management Research, (IJTMR), Koforidua Polytechnic, forthcoming  Baah-Boateng W (2012) Labour Market Discrimination in Ghana: A Gender Dimension, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Ger- many  Osei-Assibey E and W. Baah-Boateng (2012) “Interest Rate Deregulation and Private Investment: Revisiting the McKinnon and Shaw Hypothesis in Ghana”, The IUP Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. XI No.2 April pp. 12-30, India  Ackah C. and Baah-Boateng W. (2012) Trends in Growth, Employment and Poverty in Ghana in Ackah C. and Aryeetey E. (ed.) Globalisation, Trade and Poverty in Ghana, pp. 33-49, Sub-Saharan Africa Publishers, Accra Ghana  Oduro A., W. Baah-Boateng and L. Boakye-Yiadom (2011) Measuring the Gender Asset Gap in Ghana, University of Ghana and Woeli Publishing Services, Accra Ghana  Sparreboom Theo and Baah-Boateng W (2011) GHANA: Economic Growth and better labour market outcomes but challeng‐ es remain in Sparreboom T. and Albee A. (ed.) Towards decent work: Monitoring MDG1B employment Indicators in Sun‐ Saharan Africa, pp. 143-158 International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. Page 7 Dr. Lloyd G. Adu Amoah’s publicaons (2010 – present)

Book  Amoah, L.G.A. (ed) (2014). Impacts of the Knowledge Society on Economic and Social Growth in Afri- ca. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI. Forthcoming.

Journal Arcles  Emergent China, Public Policy Theorizing and Developing countries (Fudan Journal of the Humanies and Social Sciences, 2010, 3(3): 22-38.  Public Policy Formaon in Africa: Towards a Grounded Ontology (Administrave Theory and Praxis Journal, 32(4):606-610, Dec. 2010).  With Stephen Armah, Media Freedom and Polical Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A Panel Data Study (Journal of Eco- nomic Development, Management, IT, Finance and Markeng, 2(2), 41-67, September, 2010).  (2012). African Engagements: Africa negoang an emerging mulpolar world. African Affairs, 111(444), 494-495.hp:// afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/444/494.short  Construcng a New Public Administraon in Africa: Reflecons on Philosophical Clarity and the Process-Orientaon Turn (Administrave Theory & Praxis / September 2012, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 385–406). hp://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/ home/contribuon.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,5,14;journal,1,43;linkingpublicaonresults,1:120054,1

Book Chapters

 (2011)Public Policy Formaon in Africa in the Wake of the Global financial Meltdown: Building Blocks for a New Mind in a Mul-polar World, in Ton Dietz, Kjell Havnevik, Mayke Kaag, Terje Oesgaard(eds.) African Engagements: Africa Nego‐ ang an Emerging Mulpolar World. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp. 327-345. hp://www.brill.nl/african-engagements

 (2012)Africa in China: Affirming African Agency in Africa-China relaons at the people to people level, in James Shikwa (ed), China‐Africa Partnership‐The Quest for a Win‐Win relaonship. Nairobi, Kenya: IREN. pp. 104-115

 (2013)Grey Hair, Grey Maer and ICTs policy in the Global South: the Case of Ghana, in Mohammed Ehsan and Muhammed Islam, (eds), From Government to E‐Government: Public Administraon in the Digital Age. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI. pp. 245-259. hp://www.igi-global.com/book/government-governance-public-administraon-digital/63891

Professor Olivia Kwapong’s publicaons (2010 – present) Book  Kwapong, OATF. (2010). Equitable access – Informaon and communicaon technology for open and distance learning. New York: iUniverse, Inc., pps. 260.

Chapters in Books  Kwapong, OATF & Ofosu, WK. (2010). Exploring ICT use for distance educaon in Ghana. In Kinuthia, W & Marshall, S. (Eds.). Educaonal Technology in Pracce ‐ Research and Praccal Case Studies from the Field (pps.103 – 105; 183 - 194). Charloe, North Carolina: Informaon Age Publishing. Journal Arcles  Kwapong, OATF. (2010). Internet usage among women in a deprived area in Africa. Far East Journal of Mathemacal Educa‐ on. 4(2), pps. 178 - 188.  Kwapong, OATF, Djietror, BBK. & Okai, E. (2011). Promong inclusive educaon in Ghana. I-manager’s Journal on School Educaonal Technology, (6 l) 3.

Page 8 PAGE 8 Dr. Raymond A. Atuguba’s publicaons (2010 – present)

Refereed Journal Arcles  Raymond A. Atuguba and Mwambi Mwasaru, “I Refuse to Let Go of the Land: The Malindi Salt Farmers’ Struggle in Kenya” (2010).  Raymond A. Atuguba, “Women’s Survival in Ghana; What Has Law Got To Do With It?” (2012).  Raymond A. Atuguba and John Kwabena Effah “The Legal Regulaon of Electronic Commercial Transac- ons in Ghana: Ready or Not Here I come!”(2012).  Raymond A. Atuguba, "Grounding with the People: Parcipatory Policy Making in the Context of Cons- tuon Review in Ghana", Journal of Polics and Law, (2013).

Shorter Refereed Journal Arcles and Other Journal Arcles  Raymond A. Atuguba, (2010) “Inside Ghana’s Prisons” African Agenda, Vol. 13 No. 5, p. 29.  Raymond A. Atuguba, (2011) "God, Human Rights, Law, Development and the Missing Link of History". African Agenda, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 30.

Refereed Book Chapters  Raymond A. Atuguba, "The Right to Health in Ghana: Health Care, Human Rights, and Polics" in Zuniga JM, Marks SP, Gosn LO (eds), Advancing the Human Right to Health, Oxford University Press, 2013  Raymond A. Atuguba, “Administrave Law: The New Law of the Century”, in Annual Survey of Ghana Law: Baseline Year, 2006 (2013).

Published Papers  Raymond A. Atuguba et al, “Uses and Users of Jusce in Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Specialised Courts”, A Report Sub- mied to the World Bank, Washington DC. Published by the World Bank, Republic of Ghana and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 2010.  Raymond A. Atuguba, "Equality, non-discriminaon and fair distribuon of the benefits of development", Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in Commemoraon of 25 Years of the United Naons Declaraon on the Right to Devel- opment, United Naons, 2013.

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