Richmond Kwesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richmond Kwesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwesi |
| SIGNATURE | KWESI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5286-1935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising climate change policies and governance strategies in Ghana
Ghana's climate change policies and governance strategies have proven inadequate. This is because successive Ghanaian governments have uncritically adopted international climate policies and conventions, apparently with little regard for Africa's colonial history, Ghanaian realities and context. International institutions actively enable climate coloniality, often crafting climate change policies relying disproportionately on Western and Western-…
People and power in an African consensual democracy
Some African thinkers have argued that the governance systems in traditional precolonial African societies were democratic, and the kind of democracy they practised was consensual democracy. It was democratic because it ensured the maximal participation of all members in the governance of the society, and it was consensual because it involved the rational deliberation of issues where decisions were primarily reached by consensus. The aim of this …
Theoretical Underpinnings of Wiredu’s Empiricalism
Wiredu uses the term ‘empiricalism’ to characterise a mode of thinking that is essentially empirical in orientation but admits non-transcendental metaphysical categories and existents into its systems of thought. Wiredu finds evidence of this mode of thinking in the Akan language, characterising the main linguistic community in Ghana, West Africa. The central question addressed in this essay is this: is empiricalism a plausible system in the sens…
People and power in an African consensual democracy
Some African thinkers have argued that the governance systems in traditional precolonial African societies were democratic, and the kind of democracy they practised was consensual democracy. It was democratic because it ensured the maximal participation of all members in the governance of the society, and it was consensual because it involved the rational deliberation of issues where decisions were primarily reached by consensus. The aim of this …
Theoretical Underpinnings of Wiredu’s Empiricalism
Wiredu uses the term ‘empiricalism’ to characterise a mode of thinking that is essentially empirical in orientation but admits non-transcendental metaphysical categories and existents into its systems of thought. Wiredu finds evidence of this mode of thinking in the Akan language, characterising the main linguistic community in Ghana, West Africa. The central question addressed in this essay is this: is empiricalism a plausible system in the sens…
People and power in an African consensual democracy
Some African thinkers have argued that the governance systems in traditional precolonial African societies were democratic, and the kind of democracy they practised was consensual democracy. It was democratic because it ensured the maximal participation of all members in the governance of the society, and it was consensual because it involved the rational deliberation of issues where decisions were primarily reached by consensus. The aim of this …
Decolonising climate change policies and governance strategies in Ghana
Ghana's climate change policies and governance strategies have proven inadequate. This is because successive Ghanaian governments have uncritically adopted international climate policies and conventions, apparently with little regard for Africa's colonial history, Ghanaian realities and context. International institutions actively enable climate coloniality, often crafting climate change policies relying disproportionately on Western and Western-…
African cultural and philosophical studies (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Climate change (1 work) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (1 work) · Climate governance (1 work) · Deliberation (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)