Nana Akua Anyidoho
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nana Akua Anyidoho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nana Akua |
| FAMILY NAME | Anyidoho |
| SIGNATURE | ANYIDOHO N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3038-9179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Makola to Insta
Much has been made of the potential of the digital economy to provide women with new or increased work opportunities. Our study brings nuance to this narrative by investigating the extent to which, within the socio-economic context of Ghana, different categories of women are able to leverage opportunities in the growing digital economy. Based on interviews with 40 female workers and eight experts in the Ghanaian digital space, our analysis sugges…
The taxed informal economy
Mobile money taxation and informal workers
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana
A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
An Impact Assessment of Farmer Participation on Food Security in Northwestern Ghana
The Role of Women's Movements in the Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Laws
The question of whether social movements can catalyze change has preoccupied researchers but an understanding ofhowsuch change can be created is equally important. Specifically, there has been little investigation of how women's movements engage in the process ofimplementationof women's rights laws. We use a case study of Ghana's Domestic Violence Coalition to examine the challenges that movements face in the policy implementation process. The Do…
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
The Ghana Studies Association
This special 20th-anniversary issue of Ghana Studies also celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA), an occasion that was marked by a GSA-sponsored roundtable at the 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Chicago in November 2017. Participants at the
Perspectives on Desirable Work
To Beijing and Back’
The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was a pivotal moment for legitimating women's rights work in Ghana and served as a powerful framing for women's empowerment. This article explores the Beijing conference and examines its influence on popular notions of and efforts to promote women's empowerment. We argue that the discursive context provided by the conference shaped popular narratives about women directly and also through its in…
Leveraging national and global links for local rights advocacy
This article explores local–global interconnections in the context of local rights-based struggles against the adverse impact of gold mining by transnational corporations in Ghana. It examines how a small community-based organisation, WACAM, approached a situation of huge power asymmetry by both mobilising local resistance and developing national and international linkages. In explaining WACAM's relative success in challenging corporate and state…
NGOs, Rights-Based Approaches and the Potential for Progressive Development in Local Contexts
This article assesses the potential of rights-based approaches as a progressive development strategy by exploring the extent to which rights can be made real for people living in conditions of material deprivation and social oppression. It does so through a case study of Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA), a small rights-promoting non-governmental organization (NGO) that operates among poor communities in north-east Ghana. It examines the succ…
Perceptions and Aspirations
This article considers the question of young people's aspirations in agriculture in light of the renewed interest in the agricultural sector as a viable basis for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the perception that young people's involvement is important for the success of this project. Life choices and outcomes are affected in part by aspirations. The nature and formation of young people's aspirations therefore have direct implicati…
Introduction
In introducing this collection of articles we argue that policy framing and policy responses to the ‘problem’ of young people and agriculture in Africa are hampered by a lack of research and evidence that is theoretically and historically informed, conceptually sound and context sensitive. The result is policy that is well intentioned, but unlikely to address the underlying social or agricultural concerns. To address this we outline a research ag…
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives through the Lens of ‘Participation’
The continued interest in political economy-inspired perspectives on economic and social policies is an attempt to understand policymakers as human beings who are influenced by values, votes and other factors that were once thought to be exogenous to policy choices. However, there is still little theorising about those on the other side of the policy equation. This article seeks a better understanding of how ordinary people engage in a very perso…
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations
In 2007, Ghana celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. The program drawn up to commemorate this occasion, dubbed Ghana@50 , was described as an opportunity to “celebrate, reflect and look forward.”[2][1] Thus, while much was written and said about the Ghana@50 program—especially about
Communities of practice
‘The myth of community’ permeates both the understanding and the practice of participatory development. Yet the idea that communities exist as coherent units of people who inhabit bounded geographic spaces and are ready to be mobilised for development restricts the very agency that participation promises. This article offers an alternative model of community: one that is more compatible with the ideal of people-centred, participatory development.…
Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation
This paper examines the linked themes of identity and knowledge production embedded within the concept of insider scholarship. Insider scholarship may be described as the production of knowledge by a scholar about a group with which s/he identifies as a member. We are immediately compelled to complicate this definition by asking how any such group is delineated and how member- ship therein shapes knowledge production. The idea of insider scholars…
Continuity and Change in the Life Story
If a person's internalized and evolving life story (narrative identity) is to be considered an integral feature of personality itself, then aspects of that story should manifest some continuity over time while also providing evidence regarding important personality change. Accordingly, college freshmen and seniors provided detailed written accounts of 10 key scenes in their life stories, and they repeated the same procedure 3 months and then 3 ye…
Traits and Stories
Dispositional traits and life narratives represent two different levels of personality that have not previously been empirically linked. The current study tested five hypotheses connecting Big‐Five traits to life‐narrative indices of emotional tone, theme, and structure. Students (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) completed a self‐report measure of the Big‐Five traits and provided extended written accounts of either ten (students) or eight (adults) k…
African Philosophy
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
Introduction
In introducing this collection of articles we argue that policy framing and policy responses to the ‘problem’ of young people and agriculture in Africa are hampered by a lack of research and evidence that is theoretically and historically informed, conceptually sound and context sensitive. The result is policy that is well intentioned, but unlikely to address the underlying social or agricultural concerns. To address this we outline a research ag…
Perspectives on Desirable Work
Leveraging national and global links for local rights advocacy
This article explores local–global interconnections in the context of local rights-based struggles against the adverse impact of gold mining by transnational corporations in Ghana. It examines how a small community-based organisation, WACAM, approached a situation of huge power asymmetry by both mobilising local resistance and developing national and international linkages. In explaining WACAM's relative success in challenging corporate and state…
The taxed informal economy
The Role of Women's Movements in the Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Laws
The question of whether social movements can catalyze change has preoccupied researchers but an understanding ofhowsuch change can be created is equally important. Specifically, there has been little investigation of how women's movements engage in the process ofimplementationof women's rights laws. We use a case study of Ghana's Domestic Violence Coalition to examine the challenges that movements face in the policy implementation process. The Do…
NGOs, Rights-Based Approaches and the Potential for Progressive Development in Local Contexts
This article assesses the potential of rights-based approaches as a progressive development strategy by exploring the extent to which rights can be made real for people living in conditions of material deprivation and social oppression. It does so through a case study of Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA), a small rights-promoting non-governmental organization (NGO) that operates among poor communities in north-east Ghana. It examines the succ…
To Beijing and Back’
The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was a pivotal moment for legitimating women's rights work in Ghana and served as a powerful framing for women's empowerment. This article explores the Beijing conference and examines its influence on popular notions of and efforts to promote women's empowerment. We argue that the discursive context provided by the conference shaped popular narratives about women directly and also through its in…
Perceptions and Aspirations
This article considers the question of young people's aspirations in agriculture in light of the renewed interest in the agricultural sector as a viable basis for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the perception that young people's involvement is important for the success of this project. Life choices and outcomes are affected in part by aspirations. The nature and formation of young people's aspirations therefore have direct implicati…
Communities of practice
‘The myth of community’ permeates both the understanding and the practice of participatory development. Yet the idea that communities exist as coherent units of people who inhabit bounded geographic spaces and are ready to be mobilised for development restricts the very agency that participation promises. This article offers an alternative model of community: one that is more compatible with the ideal of people-centred, participatory development.…
Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation
This paper examines the linked themes of identity and knowledge production embedded within the concept of insider scholarship. Insider scholarship may be described as the production of knowledge by a scholar about a group with which s/he identifies as a member. We are immediately compelled to complicate this definition by asking how any such group is delineated and how member- ship therein shapes knowledge production. The idea of insider scholars…
African Philosophy
Traits and Stories
Dispositional traits and life narratives represent two different levels of personality that have not previously been empirically linked. The current study tested five hypotheses connecting Big‐Five traits to life‐narrative indices of emotional tone, theme, and structure. Students (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) completed a self‐report measure of the Big‐Five traits and provided extended written accounts of either ten (students) or eight (adults) k…
Continuity and Change in the Life Story
If a person's internalized and evolving life story (narrative identity) is to be considered an integral feature of personality itself, then aspects of that story should manifest some continuity over time while also providing evidence regarding important personality change. Accordingly, college freshmen and seniors provided detailed written accounts of 10 key scenes in their life stories, and they repeated the same procedure 3 months and then 3 ye…
Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation
This paper examines the linked themes of identity and knowledge production embedded within the concept of insider scholarship. Insider scholarship may be described as the production of knowledge by a scholar about a group with which s/he identifies as a member. We are immediately compelled to complicate this definition by asking how any such group is delineated and how member- ship therein shapes knowledge production. The idea of insider scholars…
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations
In 2007, Ghana celebrated fifty years as an independent nation. The program drawn up to commemorate this occasion, dubbed Ghana@50 , was described as an opportunity to “celebrate, reflect and look forward.”[2][1] Thus, while much was written and said about the Ghana@50 program—especially about
Communities of practice
‘The myth of community’ permeates both the understanding and the practice of participatory development. Yet the idea that communities exist as coherent units of people who inhabit bounded geographic spaces and are ready to be mobilised for development restricts the very agency that participation promises. This article offers an alternative model of community: one that is more compatible with the ideal of people-centred, participatory development.…
Theorising the Intersection of Public Policy and Personal Lives through the Lens of ‘Participation’
The continued interest in political economy-inspired perspectives on economic and social policies is an attempt to understand policymakers as human beings who are influenced by values, votes and other factors that were once thought to be exogenous to policy choices. However, there is still little theorising about those on the other side of the policy equation. This article seeks a better understanding of how ordinary people engage in a very perso…
Perceptions and Aspirations
This article considers the question of young people's aspirations in agriculture in light of the renewed interest in the agricultural sector as a viable basis for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the perception that young people's involvement is important for the success of this project. Life choices and outcomes are affected in part by aspirations. The nature and formation of young people's aspirations therefore have direct implicati…
Introduction
In introducing this collection of articles we argue that policy framing and policy responses to the ‘problem’ of young people and agriculture in Africa are hampered by a lack of research and evidence that is theoretically and historically informed, conceptually sound and context sensitive. The result is policy that is well intentioned, but unlikely to address the underlying social or agricultural concerns. To address this we outline a research ag…
NGOs, Rights-Based Approaches and the Potential for Progressive Development in Local Contexts
This article assesses the potential of rights-based approaches as a progressive development strategy by exploring the extent to which rights can be made real for people living in conditions of material deprivation and social oppression. It does so through a case study of Belim Wusa Development Agency (BEWDA), a small rights-promoting non-governmental organization (NGO) that operates among poor communities in north-east Ghana. It examines the succ…
Leveraging national and global links for local rights advocacy
This article explores local–global interconnections in the context of local rights-based struggles against the adverse impact of gold mining by transnational corporations in Ghana. It examines how a small community-based organisation, WACAM, approached a situation of huge power asymmetry by both mobilising local resistance and developing national and international linkages. In explaining WACAM's relative success in challenging corporate and state…
To Beijing and Back’
The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing was a pivotal moment for legitimating women's rights work in Ghana and served as a powerful framing for women's empowerment. This article explores the Beijing conference and examines its influence on popular notions of and efforts to promote women's empowerment. We argue that the discursive context provided by the conference shaped popular narratives about women directly and also through its in…
Perspectives on Desirable Work
The Ghana Studies Association
This special 20th-anniversary issue of Ghana Studies also celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Ghana Studies Association (GSA), an occasion that was marked by a GSA-sponsored roundtable at the 60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Chicago in November 2017. Participants at the
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Hard work and hazard
An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy - built around agriculture but encompassing much more - will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the foreseeable future. However, our understanding of how rural young people in Africa take advantage of processes of rural transformation or engage with the rural economy is limited. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with 1…
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
An Impact Assessment of Farmer Participation on Food Security in Northwestern Ghana
The Role of Women's Movements in the Implementation of Gender-Based Violence Laws
The question of whether social movements can catalyze change has preoccupied researchers but an understanding ofhowsuch change can be created is equally important. Specifically, there has been little investigation of how women's movements engage in the process ofimplementationof women's rights laws. We use a case study of Ghana's Domestic Violence Coalition to examine the challenges that movements face in the policy implementation process. The Do…
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Self‐employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana
A Typology of Young Cocoa Farmers
Mobile money taxation and informal workers
From Makola to Insta
Much has been made of the potential of the digital economy to provide women with new or increased work opportunities. Our study brings nuance to this narrative by investigating the extent to which, within the socio-economic context of Ghana, different categories of women are able to leverage opportunities in the growing digital economy. Based on interviews with 40 female workers and eight experts in the Ghanaian digital space, our analysis sugges…
The taxed informal economy
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works)