Richard Fosu
Biographic Data
| ID | 283750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Fosu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Fosu |
| SIGNATURE | FOSU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2454-6505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Value Addition by Internal Auditors
This study examines whether internal auditors add value through their work in information security, third-party management, and sustainability assurance. A survey of 142 internal auditors and 139 key stakeholders in Ghana was complemented with purposive interview involving nine experienced internal auditors with a minimum of ten years of practices and seven stakeholders from management, audit committees, and boards with each having held the role …
Constituting ‘Youth’
The gendered politics of the 'local turn' in peacebuilding
Typically, advancing localised approaches to peacebuilding has evaded critical reflection on the power dynamics and harms that can arise. This paper considers the gender dynamics and gendered harms that can manifest themselves when adopting an uncritical approach to localisation in peacebuilding. To do so, it examines the use of mato oput (drinking the bitter root) in post-conflict northern Uganda, as an example of a localised approach to post-co…
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory
As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory's ongoing relevance to the emancipation of formerly colonised Africans. This essay argues that to achieve its emancipatory goals, decolonial theory and intended praxes must re-centre the everyday realities of African societies. Recentring …
Covid-19 Induced Ethnographic Distance
Post-conflict ethnographic research thrives on bodily immersion in a field site to interact and observe how conflict-affected people navigate and make sense of their world. Therefore, ethnography and distance or ethnographic distance is an oxymoron. Physical immersion in the field has the advantage of generating situated knowledge as the researcher comes to know his situation/location in the field in relation to the social location, conditions, a…
The African Union’s Prohibition of Unconstitutional Changes of Government
This article examines the application of the African Union’s norm and sanctions regime on the prohibition of unconstitutional changes of government from 2001 to 2022. It identifies three forms of unconstitutional changes of government: coup d’états and other violent changes of democratically elected government; refusal of an incumbent government to relinquish power after losing an election and constitutional manipulations to win an election or ex…
International Law and Transitional Governance
Emmanuel H.D. De Groof and Micha Wiebusch, eds., International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). Pp. 165. £44.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-367-17810-9.After violent conflicts in which public authority is non-existent, seriously hampered or vehemently contested, how can it be (re)constituted? How can international law shape the reconstituted public authority during the transition from war to peace? …
When an African country avoids conflict
Post-colonial Africa is often represented as a tinderbox of conflictual ethnonational identities. Within this reckoning emerges the weak and failed states corpus. Against this background, if an ethno-plural African country builds an effective state with a vibrant democracy, its political development presents an interesting case. This article contends that Ghana’s ‘success’ with state-building is because purposive actors have harnessed citizens’ e…
Covid-19 Induced Ethnographic Distance
Post-conflict ethnographic research thrives on bodily immersion in a field site to interact and observe how conflict-affected people navigate and make sense of their world. Therefore, ethnography and distance or ethnographic distance is an oxymoron. Physical immersion in the field has the advantage of generating situated knowledge as the researcher comes to know his situation/location in the field in relation to the social location, conditions, a…
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory
As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory's ongoing relevance to the emancipation of formerly colonised Africans. This essay argues that to achieve its emancipatory goals, decolonial theory and intended praxes must re-centre the everyday realities of African societies. Recentring …
The African Union’s Prohibition of Unconstitutional Changes of Government
This article examines the application of the African Union’s norm and sanctions regime on the prohibition of unconstitutional changes of government from 2001 to 2022. It identifies three forms of unconstitutional changes of government: coup d’états and other violent changes of democratically elected government; refusal of an incumbent government to relinquish power after losing an election and constitutional manipulations to win an election or ex…
Constituting ‘Youth’
When an African country avoids conflict
Post-colonial Africa is often represented as a tinderbox of conflictual ethnonational identities. Within this reckoning emerges the weak and failed states corpus. Against this background, if an ethno-plural African country builds an effective state with a vibrant democracy, its political development presents an interesting case. This article contends that Ghana’s ‘success’ with state-building is because purposive actors have harnessed citizens’ e…
When an African country avoids conflict
Post-colonial Africa is often represented as a tinderbox of conflictual ethnonational identities. Within this reckoning emerges the weak and failed states corpus. Against this background, if an ethno-plural African country builds an effective state with a vibrant democracy, its political development presents an interesting case. This article contends that Ghana’s ‘success’ with state-building is because purposive actors have harnessed citizens’ e…
International Law and Transitional Governance
Emmanuel H.D. De Groof and Micha Wiebusch, eds., International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). Pp. 165. £44.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-367-17810-9.After violent conflicts in which public authority is non-existent, seriously hampered or vehemently contested, how can it be (re)constituted? How can international law shape the reconstituted public authority during the transition from war to peace? …
The African Union’s Prohibition of Unconstitutional Changes of Government
This article examines the application of the African Union’s norm and sanctions regime on the prohibition of unconstitutional changes of government from 2001 to 2022. It identifies three forms of unconstitutional changes of government: coup d’états and other violent changes of democratically elected government; refusal of an incumbent government to relinquish power after losing an election and constitutional manipulations to win an election or ex…
Covid-19 Induced Ethnographic Distance
Post-conflict ethnographic research thrives on bodily immersion in a field site to interact and observe how conflict-affected people navigate and make sense of their world. Therefore, ethnography and distance or ethnographic distance is an oxymoron. Physical immersion in the field has the advantage of generating situated knowledge as the researcher comes to know his situation/location in the field in relation to the social location, conditions, a…
Value Addition by Internal Auditors
This study examines whether internal auditors add value through their work in information security, third-party management, and sustainability assurance. A survey of 142 internal auditors and 139 key stakeholders in Ghana was complemented with purposive interview involving nine experienced internal auditors with a minimum of ten years of practices and seven stakeholders from management, audit committees, and boards with each having held the role …
Constituting ‘Youth’
The gendered politics of the 'local turn' in peacebuilding
Typically, advancing localised approaches to peacebuilding has evaded critical reflection on the power dynamics and harms that can arise. This paper considers the gender dynamics and gendered harms that can manifest themselves when adopting an uncritical approach to localisation in peacebuilding. To do so, it examines the use of mato oput (drinking the bitter root) in post-conflict northern Uganda, as an example of a localised approach to post-co…
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory
As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory's ongoing relevance to the emancipation of formerly colonised Africans. This essay argues that to achieve its emancipatory goals, decolonial theory and intended praxes must re-centre the everyday realities of African societies. Recentring …
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works)