The Challenge of African Potentials Conviviality, Informality and Futurity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ofosu-Kusi, Yaw
Otros Autores: Matsuda, Motoji
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2020.
Temas:
Economic development > Africa > Congresses.
Progress > Congresses.
Problem solving > Africa > Congresses.
Développement économique > Afrique > Congrès.
Progrès > Congrès.
Résolution de problème > Afrique > Congrès.
Economic development
Problem solving
Progress
Africa
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction: The Contemporary World and African Potentials
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Perspective of African Potentials
  • The African Potentials Project
  • 3. Futurity and the Challenge of African Potentials
  • Chapter 2
  • The Future African Society: Informality as a Potential for Development and Progress
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Conjunction of Population Growth and Economic Development in Africa
  • 3. Conceptualising Informality
  • 4. Making Hay out of the Sunshine of Informality
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3
  • Itaru Ohta: The Palaver Sauce and Juju of the African Potentials Network
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Palaver Sauce
  • 3. Juju
  • 4. Parting Gift
  • Endnotes
  • Chapter 4
  • Collecting Money Through Play: Celebration Parties as an Economic Process in Southern Ghana
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Settings
  • 3. Parties in Southern Ghana
  • 4. Parties as Economic Process
  • 5. Obscuration versus Clarification
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Chapter 5
  • The Potential of Debts that Cannot be Paid
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Context
  • 3. Case Study
  • 4. Investigation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Appendix: Conversation with former assistants (4 February 2018)
  • Chapter 6
  • In Search of Place and Life in Indigenous Urban Communities: An Exploration of Abese Indigenous Quarter of La Dadekotopon, Accra
  • 1. Background
  • 2. The Definition of Urban Informal Settlements
  • 3. Informal Settlements in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA)
  • 4. Brief Overview of the Theories of 'Life' and 'Place'
  • 5. In Search of 'Place' and 'Life' in the Abese Quarter of La Dadekotopon
  • 6. Conclusion: Existing Potential and the Future of Indigenous Urban Communities
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Chapter 7
  • Integrated Soil Fertility Management as a Potential for Ghana's Development: The Geospatial Approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Materials and Methods
  • Study area description
  • Materials used in the study
  • Study methodology
  • Geostatistical analysis to model soil nutrients distribution
  • Generating models for site classification of nutrient overlays
  • Formulation of projected nutrients recommendation for sampled locations using the quantitative evaluation of fertility of tropical soils (QUEFTS) model
  • Generation of geospatial soil database management system for the Northern Region
  • 3. Results and Discussion
  • Geospatial database implementation of soil nutrient recommendation for maize production in the Northern Region of Ghana
  • Geospatial model classification of spatial distribution of major soil nutrients overlay
  • Projected soil nutrients recommendations for maize production in the Northern Region of Ghana

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