Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1583161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ebenezer Forkuo |
| FAMILY NAME | Amankwaa |
| SIGNATURE | AMANKWAA E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8735-2521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Migration Aspirations and Care for Older Adults
Public Health Risk, Consumer Behaviour, and Gendered Livelihoods
Bushmeat (wild meat) trade provides critical livelihoods in Ghana but is also implicated in zoonotic disease risk and conservation debates. Despite extensive scholarship on wildlife trade and COVID-19, limited research has examined how pandemic-driven health risk perceptions reshaped bushmeat consumption patterns and gendered trade dynamics. This paper addresses that gap. Drawing on the Health Belief Model (HBM), we extend its application beyond …
Behind the Curtain of Agbogbloshie's Demolition
In many cities across the global South, urban redevelopment initiatives have long been synonymous with large‐scale demolitions that obscure the true objectives of city authorities under the guise of sanitizing the city. These interventions, steeped in revanchist ideologies, disproportionately target informal economies and yield evictions that devastate livelihoods. Despite these stark realities, academic discourse highlighting these phenomena rem…
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
“We write the ‘stop work and produce permit’ ourselves”
Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
The projected increase in older people within the African population, alongside rapid urbanisation, points to the growing importance of understanding how older people navigate towns and cities across the continent. This aligns with wider concerns that geographical scholarship needs to pay more sustained attention to ageing in Global South contexts. Rather than treating these developments as problems or absences, we approach them as opportunities …
Drought perceptions, experiences, and adaptive governance in semi-arid Ghana
Health Impacts and Coping Strategies for Extreme Indoor Temperatures in Vulnerable Urban Communities in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Impact of roofing materials on school temperatures in tropical Africa
Increasing extreme heat events in the tropics are creating dangerous environments in schools. There are limited data, however, on the extent of extreme heat in such classrooms and effective heat-mitigation strategies. This study presents the first long-term analysis of classroom temperatures in Ghanaian schools, measuring conditions in 16 classrooms in Accra over 389 days. It highlights the conditions experienced by schoolchildren and examines ho…
A mixed‐methods approach to researching extreme heat
Extreme heat is both a chronic and acute threat to the health and well‐being of urban populations. The aim of this paper is to share experiences from using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct research on extreme indoor heat, plus highlight the benefits of taking this more holistic approach. Research conducted in urban Ghana measured temperatures in homes and workplaces, evaluated existing coping strategies of residents, and…
It is for home but we use it for work
Urban infrastructure is crucial for livelihoods and economic growth, however, access remains fragmented. Such differential infrastructure provision within cities necessitates intra-urban comparison and a renewed commitment to re-thinking between and within neighborhoods in ways that do not universalize infrastructure geographies. This paper examines how electricity and water infrastructure affect home-based enterprises in four neighborhoods withi…
Labour turnover and employment dynamics in the e-waste industry of Ghana
This research focuses on labour turnover and employment dynamics within Ghana's e-waste industry, specifically at Agbogbloshie, Accra's primary e-waste recycling site. The study investigates the factors influencing people's involvement in different roles within the e-waste value chain through qualitative research methods. This involves in-depth interviews and content analysis to comprehend motivations, income structures, age distributions and tra…
Informal irrigated vegetable value chains in urban Ghana
Contaminated vegetables grown and consumed in cities of the global South have adverse public health consequences. Through interviews with farmers, traders, consumers and institutional representatives, this article explores why stakeholders in the irrigated vegetable value chain in Accra continue unsafe practices. The multi-stakeholder data are analysed by combining a behavioural model with a framework of complex stakeholder interactions. Arguably…
Don’t call us vulnerable!’
Traditional views on flood vulnerability often present a simplistic government-community relationship, portraying communities as passive recipients of aid. This perspective overlooks the dynamic agency of urban residents in shaping their own governance structures. Recent research challenges this binary thinking by revealing how communities actively manage flood risks. However, the intricate interplay between government absence and community-led a…
‘We are at the mercy of the floods!’
This paper examines how extreme weather events affect the mobility of low‐income urban residents in Ghana. Bringing together scholarship on extreme weather and mobilities, it explores the differential impact of flooding on their everyday lives as they navigate the cities of Accra and Tamale. A range of qualitative methods were drawn on, including semi‐structured interviews, focus group discussions, and follow‐along‐participant observations in sel…
The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability
Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales. Crises may trigger transformative change and learning in the short and in the long term. However, in particular, a short-term response to crises may also be reactive, strengthening established unsustainable practices and further perpetuating vulnerability and inequality rather…
Managing Covid-19 and health vulnerabilities
The interplay between how people use mobile health (mHealth) technologies and its quality information for managing their health vulnerabilities in line with their protected characteristics remains unclear and underexplored. This paper examines the intersections between mHealth users’ experiences, information quality issues, and everyday health vulnerabilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by drawing on the theory of planned behaviour an…
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure
This article contributes to shaping the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics, practices and modalities of power. Conceptually, informality, governance and everyday urbanism are drawn on to unpack how the formal encounters the informal in ways that (re)configure infrastructure geographies and governance practices. This conceptual framing is empirical…
Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities
Climate change presents significant threats to human health, especially for low-income urban communities in the Global South. Despite numerous studies of heat stress, surprisingly little is known about the temperatures actually encountered by people in their homes, or the benefits of affordable adaptations. This paper examines indoor air temperature measurements gathered from 47 living rooms within eight low-income communities of Accra and Tamale…
Cities and extreme weather events
Extreme weather events disproportionately affect residents of low-income urban settlements in the global South. This paper explores the impacts of extreme heat and flooding on water and electricity services in Accra and Tamale, Ghana. Interviews with water/electricity providers and water quality analysis are combined with household interviews, focus group discussions and observations conducted in eight low-income urban settlements. The findings h…
Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy
Research in geography and allied disciplines on gendered experiences in Africa have struggled to comprehend the nuances that make up young men's lifeworlds. Influenced by theoretical orientations in urban studies, which demonstrate how music offers a way to explore social dynamics in Africa, we examine the thoughts, actions, and experiences of male youth in Ghana using Guru's popular song “Boys abrƐ [Boys are tired].” Drawing on interviews and fo…
Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations, and financial uncertainty associated with urban life. Drawing on qualitative data from youth in two Ghanaian cities, and insights from literature on…
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana
Cities at risk? Exploring the synergies between smartphones and everyday vulnerabilities
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city
Existing research on urban Ghana mainly focuses on processes occurring within the country’s major cities, thereby reproducing a trend within the social sciences to overlook the role of intermediate and secondary cities. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by exploring spatial and social transformations in Sekondi–Takoradi, one of Ghana’s secondary cities and the metropolitan area serving the region’s emerging rubber industries as well as …
Livelihoods in motion
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city
Existing research on urban Ghana mainly focuses on processes occurring within the country’s major cities, thereby reproducing a trend within the social sciences to overlook the role of intermediate and secondary cities. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by exploring spatial and social transformations in Sekondi–Takoradi, one of Ghana’s secondary cities and the metropolitan area serving the region’s emerging rubber industries as well as …
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure
This article contributes to shaping the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics, practices and modalities of power. Conceptually, informality, governance and everyday urbanism are drawn on to unpack how the formal encounters the informal in ways that (re)configure infrastructure geographies and governance practices. This conceptual framing is empirical…
Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations, and financial uncertainty associated with urban life. Drawing on qualitative data from youth in two Ghanaian cities, and insights from literature on…
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana
The divergence between acceptability of municipal services and urbanization in developing countries
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers and perhaps insufficient and shrinking public resources, which then makes leveraging private capital for public service provision imperative. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in two Ghanaian c…
Women and men at the traffic lights
Livelihoods in risk
Ghana's pursuit of socio-economic growth has necessitated joining the information communication technology (ICT) revolution, thus increasing the consumption and obsolescence rate of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and the creation of what is popularly called e-waste. The absence of legislation governing its importation and disposal, combined with the dynamics of Accra's urban economy, including neo-liberal policies and lack of formal jo…
Cities and extreme weather events
Extreme weather events disproportionately affect residents of low-income urban settlements in the global South. This paper explores the impacts of extreme heat and flooding on water and electricity services in Accra and Tamale, Ghana. Interviews with water/electricity providers and water quality analysis are combined with household interviews, focus group discussions and observations conducted in eight low-income urban settlements. The findings h…
Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy
Research in geography and allied disciplines on gendered experiences in Africa have struggled to comprehend the nuances that make up young men's lifeworlds. Influenced by theoretical orientations in urban studies, which demonstrate how music offers a way to explore social dynamics in Africa, we examine the thoughts, actions, and experiences of male youth in Ghana using Guru's popular song “Boys abrƐ [Boys are tired].” Drawing on interviews and fo…
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
Cities at risk? Exploring the synergies between smartphones and everyday vulnerabilities
Managing Covid-19 and health vulnerabilities
The interplay between how people use mobile health (mHealth) technologies and its quality information for managing their health vulnerabilities in line with their protected characteristics remains unclear and underexplored. This paper examines the intersections between mHealth users’ experiences, information quality issues, and everyday health vulnerabilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by drawing on the theory of planned behaviour an…
Impact of roofing materials on school temperatures in tropical Africa
Increasing extreme heat events in the tropics are creating dangerous environments in schools. There are limited data, however, on the extent of extreme heat in such classrooms and effective heat-mitigation strategies. This study presents the first long-term analysis of classroom temperatures in Ghanaian schools, measuring conditions in 16 classrooms in Accra over 389 days. It highlights the conditions experienced by schoolchildren and examines ho…
It is for home but we use it for work
Urban infrastructure is crucial for livelihoods and economic growth, however, access remains fragmented. Such differential infrastructure provision within cities necessitates intra-urban comparison and a renewed commitment to re-thinking between and within neighborhoods in ways that do not universalize infrastructure geographies. This paper examines how electricity and water infrastructure affect home-based enterprises in four neighborhoods withi…
Livelihoods in risk
Ghana's pursuit of socio-economic growth has necessitated joining the information communication technology (ICT) revolution, thus increasing the consumption and obsolescence rate of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and the creation of what is popularly called e-waste. The absence of legislation governing its importation and disposal, combined with the dynamics of Accra's urban economy, including neo-liberal policies and lack of formal jo…
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
Women and men at the traffic lights
Livelihoods in motion
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city
Existing research on urban Ghana mainly focuses on processes occurring within the country’s major cities, thereby reproducing a trend within the social sciences to overlook the role of intermediate and secondary cities. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by exploring spatial and social transformations in Sekondi–Takoradi, one of Ghana’s secondary cities and the metropolitan area serving the region’s emerging rubber industries as well as …
The divergence between acceptability of municipal services and urbanization in developing countries
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers and perhaps insufficient and shrinking public resources, which then makes leveraging private capital for public service provision imperative. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in two Ghanaian c…
Cities at risk? Exploring the synergies between smartphones and everyday vulnerabilities
Cities and extreme weather events
Extreme weather events disproportionately affect residents of low-income urban settlements in the global South. This paper explores the impacts of extreme heat and flooding on water and electricity services in Accra and Tamale, Ghana. Interviews with water/electricity providers and water quality analysis are combined with household interviews, focus group discussions and observations conducted in eight low-income urban settlements. The findings h…
Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy
Research in geography and allied disciplines on gendered experiences in Africa have struggled to comprehend the nuances that make up young men's lifeworlds. Influenced by theoretical orientations in urban studies, which demonstrate how music offers a way to explore social dynamics in Africa, we examine the thoughts, actions, and experiences of male youth in Ghana using Guru's popular song “Boys abrƐ [Boys are tired].” Drawing on interviews and fo…
Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle
Geographers have shown how mobile phones are transforming urban economies in Africa by altering the temporal and spatial nature of commercial transactions. Less well documented is how young people in Africa are using mobile phones to navigate the interplay between personal hopes, social expectations, and financial uncertainty associated with urban life. Drawing on qualitative data from youth in two Ghanaian cities, and insights from literature on…
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana
Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities
Climate change presents significant threats to human health, especially for low-income urban communities in the Global South. Despite numerous studies of heat stress, surprisingly little is known about the temperatures actually encountered by people in their homes, or the benefits of affordable adaptations. This paper examines indoor air temperature measurements gathered from 47 living rooms within eight low-income communities of Accra and Tamale…
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure
This article contributes to shaping the discourse on unequal geographies of infrastructure and governance in the global South, opening up new ways of thinking through politics, practices and modalities of power. Conceptually, informality, governance and everyday urbanism are drawn on to unpack how the formal encounters the informal in ways that (re)configure infrastructure geographies and governance practices. This conceptual framing is empirical…
‘We are at the mercy of the floods!’
This paper examines how extreme weather events affect the mobility of low‐income urban residents in Ghana. Bringing together scholarship on extreme weather and mobilities, it explores the differential impact of flooding on their everyday lives as they navigate the cities of Accra and Tamale. A range of qualitative methods were drawn on, including semi‐structured interviews, focus group discussions, and follow‐along‐participant observations in sel…
The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability
Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales. Crises may trigger transformative change and learning in the short and in the long term. However, in particular, a short-term response to crises may also be reactive, strengthening established unsustainable practices and further perpetuating vulnerability and inequality rather…
Managing Covid-19 and health vulnerabilities
The interplay between how people use mobile health (mHealth) technologies and its quality information for managing their health vulnerabilities in line with their protected characteristics remains unclear and underexplored. This paper examines the intersections between mHealth users’ experiences, information quality issues, and everyday health vulnerabilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by drawing on the theory of planned behaviour an…
Informal irrigated vegetable value chains in urban Ghana
Contaminated vegetables grown and consumed in cities of the global South have adverse public health consequences. Through interviews with farmers, traders, consumers and institutional representatives, this article explores why stakeholders in the irrigated vegetable value chain in Accra continue unsafe practices. The multi-stakeholder data are analysed by combining a behavioural model with a framework of complex stakeholder interactions. Arguably…
Don’t call us vulnerable!’
Traditional views on flood vulnerability often present a simplistic government-community relationship, portraying communities as passive recipients of aid. This perspective overlooks the dynamic agency of urban residents in shaping their own governance structures. Recent research challenges this binary thinking by revealing how communities actively manage flood risks. However, the intricate interplay between government absence and community-led a…
Drought perceptions, experiences, and adaptive governance in semi-arid Ghana
Health Impacts and Coping Strategies for Extreme Indoor Temperatures in Vulnerable Urban Communities in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Impact of roofing materials on school temperatures in tropical Africa
Increasing extreme heat events in the tropics are creating dangerous environments in schools. There are limited data, however, on the extent of extreme heat in such classrooms and effective heat-mitigation strategies. This study presents the first long-term analysis of classroom temperatures in Ghanaian schools, measuring conditions in 16 classrooms in Accra over 389 days. It highlights the conditions experienced by schoolchildren and examines ho…
A mixed‐methods approach to researching extreme heat
Extreme heat is both a chronic and acute threat to the health and well‐being of urban populations. The aim of this paper is to share experiences from using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct research on extreme indoor heat, plus highlight the benefits of taking this more holistic approach. Research conducted in urban Ghana measured temperatures in homes and workplaces, evaluated existing coping strategies of residents, and…
It is for home but we use it for work
Urban infrastructure is crucial for livelihoods and economic growth, however, access remains fragmented. Such differential infrastructure provision within cities necessitates intra-urban comparison and a renewed commitment to re-thinking between and within neighborhoods in ways that do not universalize infrastructure geographies. This paper examines how electricity and water infrastructure affect home-based enterprises in four neighborhoods withi…
Labour turnover and employment dynamics in the e-waste industry of Ghana
This research focuses on labour turnover and employment dynamics within Ghana's e-waste industry, specifically at Agbogbloshie, Accra's primary e-waste recycling site. The study investigates the factors influencing people's involvement in different roles within the e-waste value chain through qualitative research methods. This involves in-depth interviews and content analysis to comprehend motivations, income structures, age distributions and tra…
Migration Aspirations and Care for Older Adults
Geography (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)