Voicing African Voices

Author

Komla Tsey

Komla Tsey is a Ghanaian by birth currently Professor of Education for Social Sustainability at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. Since the 1990’s Komla has been living in Australia, researching and learning about health and well-being, mainly with Aboriginal organizations and communities. He continues to undertake longitudinal studies of community development projects in Ghana. Komla has written more than 100 academic journal articles and research reports on a wide range of development related topics. He is author of Re-thinking Development in Africa: An Oral History Approach from Botoku, Rural Ghana (Langaa, 2011). Watch Komla talk about his book Re-thinking Development in Africa here.

Economic History Economics History West Africa

From Head-Loading to the Iron Horse

by Komla Tsey

Railway Building in Colonial Ghana and the Origins of Tropical Development International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century…

Development Studies Social Sciences

Re-thinking Development in Africa

by Komla Tsey

An Oral History Approach from Botoku, Rural Ghana In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and…

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