Populations, Urbanization, and Rural Settlement in Ghana
Sarfoh, Joseph A. There are a number of reasons why Ghana represents an important case study for any discussion of population, urbanization, and rural settlement in postcolonial Africa. First, it served as a pioneering experiment in the decolonization of Africa, second, its government was one of few ruling bodies in Africa to recognize the relationship between socioeconomic development and development in urban and rural areas, and third, it formulated vital pol...