Description Table of Contents Author Information Additional Information Description Africa Through Ghanaian Lenses is a compilation of lectures delivered by academics and government officials of Ghana during the Fulbright Hays Scholar program in Ghana. The articles critically discuss historical as well as contemporary issues of Ghana in particular and Africa in general. This project was made possible through grants for the Fulbright Hays program through the United States Department of Education. Go to Top Table of Contents Acknowledgement Introduction/Overview Politics: 1. Of Democratic Transitions and Consolidation in Africa: Ghana and Zambia in Comparative Perspective 2. An Overview of Local Government Experience in Ghana 3. Election Monitoring in Ghana: A Case For Domestic Monitors and Observers 4. Ghana’s Election 2000: Coming to Terms with Democratic Consolidation? 5. Trans-African Slave Trade and Its Impact on African Development 6. Ethnic Conflicts in Northern Ghaha, 1980-1999: An Appraisal Social/Cultural: 7. Gender and Democratization in Africa 8. The Youth, Democracy, and Governance in Ghana 9. Ghana’s Culture: Past and Present 10. New Religious Movements in Ghana 11. Religion and Politics in Africa: The Ghanaian Case 12. The State of Women in Public Life in Ghana-An Overview Economic: 13. Retirement and Poverty Among the Aged in Africa-The Ghanaian Experience 14. Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises in Ghana 15. Industrial Development in Ghana Go to Top Author Information Dr. Quainoo is a professor of Political Science and Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is credited with a number of essays and research on Democracy as well as articles on politics of developing countries. Dr. Quainoo at the present is focusing his research on Cultural Continuity in the Africana Diasporas. Go to Top Additional Information Transitions and Consolidation of Democracy in Africa ESU in Ghana Go to Top