Festival Godwin Boateng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3513223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Festival Godwin Boateng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Festival Godwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Boateng |
| SIGNATURE | BOATENG F G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8498-8498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tides of Transition: Vehicle Flows, Afterlives, and the Remaking of Mobility in Africa
The geography of vehicle exports to Africa is shifting from established North–South circuits of second-hand automobiles to emerging East–South exchanges led by China and India. Unsettling long-standing geopolitical hierarchies, the growing influx of used cars and electric two- and three-wheelers from the Global East is reshaping mobility cultures and infrastructures, regimes of value, and livelihood across the continent. However, this influx risk…
A Systematic Review of the Global Literature on Gated Communities: A Temporal Perspective
This study systematically reviews 336 peer-reviewed articles on gated communities (1997–2023) to examine thematic evolution and geographic diversification. Guided by a unified conceptual framework, it identifies six meta-themes and traces a transition from early defensive architecture to contemporary sustainable assemblages. The findings also reveal a significant “Southern turn” dominated by China and a conceptual shift where the gate has evolved…
Towards African geographies of electric vehicle battery and infrastructure risks
Governments, non-governmental organisations, development agencies, private firms, and an expanding network of actors are exploring ways to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Africa. As their initiatives grow, a body of research in transport geography and wider social sciences on EVs is emerging. However, reflecting policy priorities, most of this research concentrates on encouraging adoption. Less attention has been paid to…
Walking cities that are (un)walkable: Exploring everyday lived realities in low-income neighbourhoods in Accra
We are not the ones to blame: Stakeholders' conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana
The relevance of wetlands has re-gained attention in the global socioecological agenda as part of the resurgence of nature-based solutions (NbS) for sustainable development. In global south contexts, the socio-ecological relevance of wetlands has not prevented their rapid depletion in ecologically sensitive areas due to reactive environmental planning and plurality of resource management systems. Despite multiple vested interests around wetlands,…
Urbanization, Legacies of Elite Capture, and Multi-Dimensional Exclusions in Ghana: Towards Just Housing and Neighborhood Policies in African Cities
Persisting housing challenges in Africa’s cities are often theorized as driven by rapid demographic expansion outstripping housing supply or by the urbanization of poverty which puts the cost of adequate and serviced housing beyond the reach of many urban dwellers. This theorization links the problem of inadequate supply and low quality of housing to ahistorical , apolitical factors such as the size and income/poverty characteristics of Africa’s …
Symbolic legitimization of evictions in post-colonial African cities: A review from Ghana's Old Fadama
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
The rise of ‘smart’ solutions in Africa: A review of the socio-environmental cost of the transportation and employment benefits of ride-hailing technology in Ghana
Governments in Africa are licensing major global ride-hailing firms to launch operations in the continent. This is often presented as a refreshing development for the continent to leverage technology to address its twin problems of inefficient urban transport and rising youth unemployment. Interviews with ride-hailing adopters (drivers, riders, and car owners) and researchers in Ghana suggest, however, that whereas the technology is driving up th…
Crimes of accommodation: A criminological grounding for road traffic violations among minibus drivers in Africa
The paper bridges the gap in criminological research on the impact of work systems and conditions on working-class drivers’ commitment to road traffic laws in Africa. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with ‘Tro-Tro’ drivers in Ghana, the study shows that, while unquestionably concerning, transgressive driving behaviors (e.g. over-speeding, and dangerous overtaking) are necessary for minibus drivers to cope with the adversities str…
Why Africa cannot prosecute (or even educate) its way out of road accidents: Insights from Ghana
The paper sheds light on the problem of the growing embracement of penal populism (fines and prison sentences) as a measure for dealing with road trauma in Africa through a case study of Ghana. It argues that the policy of hunting for rogue drivers to make roads safer in the continent is as ineffective as killing mosquitoes one by one to control malaria. The best remedy is to drain the swamps in which they breed. The swamps, in respect of road tr…
Blockchain on stool land acquisition: Lessons from Ghana for strengthening land tenure security other than titling
“Indiscipline” in context: A political-economic grounding for dangerous driving behaviors among Tro-Tro drivers in Ghana
This paper attempts a better explanation for the causes of dangerous driving behaviors among “ Tro-Tro ”(minibus) drivers in Ghana. The current media, policy, and academic coverage of the problem reveals an immutable discourse that considers the behaviors (such as over speeding) as a function of moral failure, indiscipline, or bad attitudes on the part of the drivers. Often little consideration is given to the context of the behaviors and their i…
Building collapse in cities in Ghana: A case for a historical-institutional grounding for building risks in developing countries
A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana
Blockchain on stool land acquisition: Lessons from Ghana for strengthening land tenure security other than titling
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana
“Indiscipline” in context: A political-economic grounding for dangerous driving behaviors among Tro-Tro drivers in Ghana
This paper attempts a better explanation for the causes of dangerous driving behaviors among “ Tro-Tro ”(minibus) drivers in Ghana. The current media, policy, and academic coverage of the problem reveals an immutable discourse that considers the behaviors (such as over speeding) as a function of moral failure, indiscipline, or bad attitudes on the part of the drivers. Often little consideration is given to the context of the behaviors and their i…
Building collapse in cities in Ghana: A case for a historical-institutional grounding for building risks in developing countries
A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana
Why Africa cannot prosecute (or even educate) its way out of road accidents: Insights from Ghana
The paper sheds light on the problem of the growing embracement of penal populism (fines and prison sentences) as a measure for dealing with road trauma in Africa through a case study of Ghana. It argues that the policy of hunting for rogue drivers to make roads safer in the continent is as ineffective as killing mosquitoes one by one to control malaria. The best remedy is to drain the swamps in which they breed. The swamps, in respect of road tr…
Blockchain on stool land acquisition: Lessons from Ghana for strengthening land tenure security other than titling
The rise of ‘smart’ solutions in Africa: A review of the socio-environmental cost of the transportation and employment benefits of ride-hailing technology in Ghana
Governments in Africa are licensing major global ride-hailing firms to launch operations in the continent. This is often presented as a refreshing development for the continent to leverage technology to address its twin problems of inefficient urban transport and rising youth unemployment. Interviews with ride-hailing adopters (drivers, riders, and car owners) and researchers in Ghana suggest, however, that whereas the technology is driving up th…
Crimes of accommodation: A criminological grounding for road traffic violations among minibus drivers in Africa
The paper bridges the gap in criminological research on the impact of work systems and conditions on working-class drivers’ commitment to road traffic laws in Africa. Drawing on interviews and focus group discussions with ‘Tro-Tro’ drivers in Ghana, the study shows that, while unquestionably concerning, transgressive driving behaviors (e.g. over-speeding, and dangerous overtaking) are necessary for minibus drivers to cope with the adversities str…
Symbolic legitimization of evictions in post-colonial African cities: A review from Ghana's Old Fadama
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
Urbanization, Legacies of Elite Capture, and Multi-Dimensional Exclusions in Ghana: Towards Just Housing and Neighborhood Policies in African Cities
Persisting housing challenges in Africa’s cities are often theorized as driven by rapid demographic expansion outstripping housing supply or by the urbanization of poverty which puts the cost of adequate and serviced housing beyond the reach of many urban dwellers. This theorization links the problem of inadequate supply and low quality of housing to ahistorical , apolitical factors such as the size and income/poverty characteristics of Africa’s …
We are not the ones to blame: Stakeholders' conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana
The relevance of wetlands has re-gained attention in the global socioecological agenda as part of the resurgence of nature-based solutions (NbS) for sustainable development. In global south contexts, the socio-ecological relevance of wetlands has not prevented their rapid depletion in ecologically sensitive areas due to reactive environmental planning and plurality of resource management systems. Despite multiple vested interests around wetlands,…
Tides of Transition: Vehicle Flows, Afterlives, and the Remaking of Mobility in Africa
The geography of vehicle exports to Africa is shifting from established North–South circuits of second-hand automobiles to emerging East–South exchanges led by China and India. Unsettling long-standing geopolitical hierarchies, the growing influx of used cars and electric two- and three-wheelers from the Global East is reshaping mobility cultures and infrastructures, regimes of value, and livelihood across the continent. However, this influx risk…
A Systematic Review of the Global Literature on Gated Communities: A Temporal Perspective
This study systematically reviews 336 peer-reviewed articles on gated communities (1997–2023) to examine thematic evolution and geographic diversification. Guided by a unified conceptual framework, it identifies six meta-themes and traces a transition from early defensive architecture to contemporary sustainable assemblages. The findings also reveal a significant “Southern turn” dominated by China and a conceptual shift where the gate has evolved…
Towards African geographies of electric vehicle battery and infrastructure risks
Governments, non-governmental organisations, development agencies, private firms, and an expanding network of actors are exploring ways to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Africa. As their initiatives grow, a body of research in transport geography and wider social sciences on EVs is emerging. However, reflecting policy priorities, most of this research concentrates on encouraging adoption. Less attention has been paid to…
Walking cities that are (un)walkable: Exploring everyday lived realities in low-income neighbourhoods in Accra
Economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works)