Lloyd G Adu Amoah
Biographic Data
| ID | 156223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lloyd G Adu Amoah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lloyd G Adu |
| FAMILY NAME | Amoah |
| SIGNATURE | AMOAH L G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6256-2090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Homo Neoliberalus , and Decolonizing the Study of Political Economy in Ghanaian Higher Education
This work argues that a particular instantiation of the global homo neoliberalus (HN) must be contemplated in the emergence of the Ghanaian Neoliberal Capitalist State in the last forty years: the Ghanaian HN. This Ghanaian HN labors under a particular psychic regime that is presented in classrooms of both public and private universities. Confronting and unsettling this psychic regime has profound implications for an approach to teaching and lear…
The uses and limits of architecture as soft power in Africa’s international relations
Buildings are powerful expressions of political power that describe and project ideas about hierarchy, state authority, solidarity and modernity. On the African continent, some important buildings have been gifted to governments as an outcome of their international relations. However, these ‘gifts’ have subtle undertones of soft power. This special section contains four articles that describe four different cases – schools in Ghana, Obafemi Awolo…
Public Sector Management and Economic Governance in Ghana: Three Decades of the Fourth Republic
Diplomacy of architecture and the Ghana National Mosque Complex: Concrete sign of a soft Turkish Imperium
In a manner almost reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire’s frantic search (late nineteenth to early twentieth century) for müstemlekat (colonies) in Africa, modern Turkey seems to have revived its imperialist dreams in contemporary Africa. Following the elaboration of a proactive African foreign policy strategy, Turkey declared 2005 the Year of Africa, and established diplomatic relations with a raft of Muslim-majority African countries (MMACs). Whil…
Why African (Akan) thought has no concept of race: An anti-essentialist cultural meaning of personhood
The race question has emerged in full force in recent times in the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Europe’s anti-immigration posture, the social fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic inside and outside of China and the ongoing Russo-Ukraine Conflict. What does it mean to be racist? Is it simply a one off act or the product of a deeply embedded philosophical assemblage? When an African or Chinese (noted perennial victims of racism in history) …
Diplomacy of Architecture: Ghana, China and 60 Years of Spatial Engagement
Special Edition on Chinweizu: Chinweizu: Over Forty Years of Reflections on Africa, Asia and the World
Power-with and Power-to and Building Asian Studies in Africa: Insights from the Field
Taking seriously Chinweizu’s (2004) call for Asian Studies in Africa this article examines the ways in which African Asianist scholars with their partners elsewhere decided to take counterhegemonic action, and how their approach differs from the status quo as a prefigurative politics of power-with society they seek. This work explores the establishment of Centres for Asian Studies in Africa as institutional actors in the counter-hegemonic project…
Chinweizu, Asia’s Rise and Disentangling Africa’s Strategic Incoherence for Africa’s Future
Chinweizu’s wide-ranging and copious intellectual output persistently brings into sharp focus penetrating analysis of Asia’s contemporary rise (read in Chinweizuan terms as autonomous modernization and industrialization) in juxtaposition to Africa’s de-industrialization and with it her firm rootedness at the periphery of global power. “Africa’s Staticity-Asia’s Rise” is a binary that bothers Chinweizu to no end. In two key works presented in Accr…
Covid-19 and the state in Africa: The state is dead, long live the state
In this article, I am concerned about how countries around the world have coped and are coping with the unprecedented COVID-19 turn of events, which has brought all life to a screeching halt. The state everywhere has been called upon to respond effectively to the associated morbidities and mortalities and plot for a post-COVID-19 era. My interest lies in how the weakening of the state in Africa in the last 30 years complicates the continent's cap…
Is the Saemaŭl Undong Initiative (the Korean Rural Development Strategy) a Compelling Exemplar for Ghana
This paper examines Korea’s answer to the rural development challenge in the 1970s, the Saemaŭl Undong movement ( SMU ). As one of the revolutionary polices of Park Chung-Hee, it has been highlighted as contributing greatly to the South Korean economic miracle. There is consensus that it is a shining example of a successful rural development policy and has been widely documented. Given the signal achievements of the programme, this paper attempts…
General Introduction: “40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations”
Ghana-Korea Economic Relations – The Record after 40 Years and the Future
Over the last sixty years the economic and industrial fortunes of Ghana and Korea have proved worryingly divergent. Though Ghana and South Korea had comparatively similar GDP per capita in the 1960s, South Korea in 20171 ($29,742.839) has been able to attain a GDP per capita that is about ten times that of Ghana ($1,641.487). This work critically examines the economic relationship between Ghana and South Korea in the last forty years. It focuses …
The economy of Ghana sixty years after independence
In his customarily biting commentary Kwame Nkrumah made the case for Gold Coast independence in 1951 by arguing that the colony had the inalienable right not just to govern but to misgovern itself too. In the event Ghana's full throttle push for self-rule and, more crucially, what she will make of it, riveted the attention of the world. On 6th March, 2017, Ghana marked her sixtieth independence anniversary and in a book published to coincide with…
China, architecture and Ghana's spaces: Concrete signs of a soft Chinese imperium
Africa's interaction with China is beginning to be marked tellingly by Chinese architectural inscriptions on the African cityscape which need to be deconstructed. The furore in the African press and academia that greeted the building and handing over by China of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa makes such an interrogation imperative. This study will attempt to offer some understanding of this nascent phenomenon using the Accra citysc…
Constructing a New Public Administration in Africa: Reflections on Philosophical Clarity and the Process-Orientation Turn
Western public administration as a discipline and practice has been foisted on Africa. In its evolutionary trajectory, the dominant narratives of public administration tend to assume a totalizing, universalistic, nomothetic posture as they both undermine and ignore other worldviews. In Africa the upshot has been public policy that scarcely responds robustly to the continent's "wicked problems." While the dominant corpus of Western public administ…
African Engagements: Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology
(2010). Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 606-610
China, architecture and Ghana's spaces: Concrete signs of a soft Chinese imperium
Africa's interaction with China is beginning to be marked tellingly by Chinese architectural inscriptions on the African cityscape which need to be deconstructed. The furore in the African press and academia that greeted the building and handing over by China of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa makes such an interrogation imperative. This study will attempt to offer some understanding of this nascent phenomenon using the Accra citysc…
Constructing a New Public Administration in Africa: Reflections on Philosophical Clarity and the Process-Orientation Turn
Western public administration as a discipline and practice has been foisted on Africa. In its evolutionary trajectory, the dominant narratives of public administration tend to assume a totalizing, universalistic, nomothetic posture as they both undermine and ignore other worldviews. In Africa the upshot has been public policy that scarcely responds robustly to the continent's "wicked problems." While the dominant corpus of Western public administ…
Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology
(2010). Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 606-610
Diplomacy of architecture and the Ghana National Mosque Complex: Concrete sign of a soft Turkish Imperium
In a manner almost reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire’s frantic search (late nineteenth to early twentieth century) for müstemlekat (colonies) in Africa, modern Turkey seems to have revived its imperialist dreams in contemporary Africa. Following the elaboration of a proactive African foreign policy strategy, Turkey declared 2005 the Year of Africa, and established diplomatic relations with a raft of Muslim-majority African countries (MMACs). Whil…
Public Sector Management and Economic Governance in Ghana: Three Decades of the Fourth Republic
Covid-19 and the state in Africa: The state is dead, long live the state
In this article, I am concerned about how countries around the world have coped and are coping with the unprecedented COVID-19 turn of events, which has brought all life to a screeching halt. The state everywhere has been called upon to respond effectively to the associated morbidities and mortalities and plot for a post-COVID-19 era. My interest lies in how the weakening of the state in Africa in the last 30 years complicates the continent's cap…
Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology
(2010). Public Policy Formation in Africa: Toward a Grounded Ontology. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 606-610
Constructing a New Public Administration in Africa: Reflections on Philosophical Clarity and the Process-Orientation Turn
Western public administration as a discipline and practice has been foisted on Africa. In its evolutionary trajectory, the dominant narratives of public administration tend to assume a totalizing, universalistic, nomothetic posture as they both undermine and ignore other worldviews. In Africa the upshot has been public policy that scarcely responds robustly to the continent's "wicked problems." While the dominant corpus of Western public administ…
African Engagements: Africa negotiating an emerging multipolar world
China, architecture and Ghana's spaces: Concrete signs of a soft Chinese imperium
Africa's interaction with China is beginning to be marked tellingly by Chinese architectural inscriptions on the African cityscape which need to be deconstructed. The furore in the African press and academia that greeted the building and handing over by China of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa makes such an interrogation imperative. This study will attempt to offer some understanding of this nascent phenomenon using the Accra citysc…
The economy of Ghana sixty years after independence
In his customarily biting commentary Kwame Nkrumah made the case for Gold Coast independence in 1951 by arguing that the colony had the inalienable right not just to govern but to misgovern itself too. In the event Ghana's full throttle push for self-rule and, more crucially, what she will make of it, riveted the attention of the world. On 6th March, 2017, Ghana marked her sixtieth independence anniversary and in a book published to coincide with…
Is the Saemaŭl Undong Initiative (the Korean Rural Development Strategy) a Compelling Exemplar for Ghana
This paper examines Korea’s answer to the rural development challenge in the 1970s, the Saemaŭl Undong movement ( SMU ). As one of the revolutionary polices of Park Chung-Hee, it has been highlighted as contributing greatly to the South Korean economic miracle. There is consensus that it is a shining example of a successful rural development policy and has been widely documented. Given the signal achievements of the programme, this paper attempts…
General Introduction: “40 Years of Ghana-Korea Relations”
Ghana-Korea Economic Relations – The Record after 40 Years and the Future
Over the last sixty years the economic and industrial fortunes of Ghana and Korea have proved worryingly divergent. Though Ghana and South Korea had comparatively similar GDP per capita in the 1960s, South Korea in 20171 ($29,742.839) has been able to attain a GDP per capita that is about ten times that of Ghana ($1,641.487). This work critically examines the economic relationship between Ghana and South Korea in the last forty years. It focuses …
Covid-19 and the state in Africa: The state is dead, long live the state
In this article, I am concerned about how countries around the world have coped and are coping with the unprecedented COVID-19 turn of events, which has brought all life to a screeching halt. The state everywhere has been called upon to respond effectively to the associated morbidities and mortalities and plot for a post-COVID-19 era. My interest lies in how the weakening of the state in Africa in the last 30 years complicates the continent's cap…
Special Edition on Chinweizu: Chinweizu: Over Forty Years of Reflections on Africa, Asia and the World
Power-with and Power-to and Building Asian Studies in Africa: Insights from the Field
Taking seriously Chinweizu’s (2004) call for Asian Studies in Africa this article examines the ways in which African Asianist scholars with their partners elsewhere decided to take counterhegemonic action, and how their approach differs from the status quo as a prefigurative politics of power-with society they seek. This work explores the establishment of Centres for Asian Studies in Africa as institutional actors in the counter-hegemonic project…
Chinweizu, Asia’s Rise and Disentangling Africa’s Strategic Incoherence for Africa’s Future
Chinweizu’s wide-ranging and copious intellectual output persistently brings into sharp focus penetrating analysis of Asia’s contemporary rise (read in Chinweizuan terms as autonomous modernization and industrialization) in juxtaposition to Africa’s de-industrialization and with it her firm rootedness at the periphery of global power. “Africa’s Staticity-Asia’s Rise” is a binary that bothers Chinweizu to no end. In two key works presented in Accr…
Why African (Akan) thought has no concept of race: An anti-essentialist cultural meaning of personhood
The race question has emerged in full force in recent times in the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Europe’s anti-immigration posture, the social fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic inside and outside of China and the ongoing Russo-Ukraine Conflict. What does it mean to be racist? Is it simply a one off act or the product of a deeply embedded philosophical assemblage? When an African or Chinese (noted perennial victims of racism in history) …
Diplomacy of Architecture: Ghana, China and 60 Years of Spatial Engagement
Public Sector Management and Economic Governance in Ghana: Three Decades of the Fourth Republic
Diplomacy of architecture and the Ghana National Mosque Complex: Concrete sign of a soft Turkish Imperium
In a manner almost reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire’s frantic search (late nineteenth to early twentieth century) for müstemlekat (colonies) in Africa, modern Turkey seems to have revived its imperialist dreams in contemporary Africa. Following the elaboration of a proactive African foreign policy strategy, Turkey declared 2005 the Year of Africa, and established diplomatic relations with a raft of Muslim-majority African countries (MMACs). Whil…
Homo Neoliberalus , and Decolonizing the Study of Political Economy in Ghanaian Higher Education
This work argues that a particular instantiation of the global homo neoliberalus (HN) must be contemplated in the emergence of the Ghanaian Neoliberal Capitalist State in the last forty years: the Ghanaian HN. This Ghanaian HN labors under a particular psychic regime that is presented in classrooms of both public and private universities. Confronting and unsettling this psychic regime has profound implications for an approach to teaching and lear…
The uses and limits of architecture as soft power in Africa’s international relations
Buildings are powerful expressions of political power that describe and project ideas about hierarchy, state authority, solidarity and modernity. On the African continent, some important buildings have been gifted to governments as an outcome of their international relations. However, these ‘gifts’ have subtle undertones of soft power. This special section contains four articles that describe four different cases – schools in Ghana, Obafemi Awolo…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · China (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Economy (6 works) · History (6 works)