Shaping Tradition
Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957
Biographical note
Jeff D. Grischow, Ph.D. (1999) in History, Queen's University, Canada, is Asistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published on the history of development and disease in colonial Ghana.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, rural history, African history and International Development Studies.
Reviews
'Grischow studies the work of the West African Lands Committee, the important governorship of Sir F. G. Guggisberg, and the subsequent implementation of indirect rule between 1932 and 1936. Ultimately, working through "chiefs" was found to promote neither economic growth nor social welfare, and after WWII, "local government" as the "preferred administrative framework for development" gradually replaced indirect rule.'
Summing Up: Highly recommended. CHOICE (August 2007)
Summing Up: Highly recommended. CHOICE (August 2007)
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