http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/32 2026-04-09T00:56:32Z 2026-04-09T00:56:32Z Owusu-Sekyere, E. Tokub, A. Sarfo, A.K. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4385 2025-02-11T12:20:39Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: FROM THE GARDEN CITY OF WEST AFRICA TO A LANDSCAPE OF URBAN CRISES Authors: Owusu-Sekyere, E.; Tokub, A.; Sarfo, A.K. Abstract: This article examines the mutation of Kumasi from the ‘Garden City’ of West Africa to a landscape of urban crises. Although it focuses on contemporary issues, it also instigates into the dis course, historical perspectives to reveal the factors responsible for the urban crises using data from multiple sources. The results show dual city governance structure resulting from the socio political power relations between the traditional set-up and the State governance structure served as leitmotif for the urban crises. It is argued that Kumasi’s unique customary identity must be integrated into city management structures to respond to the realities of changing times

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Peprah, K. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4364 2025-02-05T12:09:21Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM TO REMEDY LAND DEGRADATION IN GHANA ALONG THE BLACK VOLTA RIVER Authors: Peprah, K. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of sustainable tourism on livelihoods of the implementing community members. The specific focus is the conservation option of zero land degradation approach of the Wechiau Community Hippopotamus Sanctuary (WCHS) that has conserved the gallery forest along the Black Volta River over the past 16 years. The study methods involve collection and analysis of primary and secondary data, with regards to number of visitors and the study area’s satellite images of 1986, 2000 and 2016 respectively. Results indicate provision of school infrastructure, scholarships, solar lamps for 600 households and 13 boreholes. The rest include rise in tourism income, supply of variety of seeds for cropping and realization of good production. Farming livelihood is inadequate; so farmers add petty trading, brewing and processing of organic shea butter. In conclusion, tourism is not always destructive to the natural environment. In this case, tourism remedies land degradation.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Owusu-Sekyere, E. Alhassan, H. Jengre, E. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4344 2025-02-04T11:56:20Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: URBAN GROWTH, FUEL SERVICE STATION DISASTERS AND POLICY COMPLIANCE IN GHANA Authors: Owusu-Sekyere, E.; Alhassan, H.; Jengre, E. Abstract: Disasters associated with Fuel service stations (FSS) in Ghana have been debated severally and attracted policy attention, yet their mitigation strategies seem too far off and unimaginably unrealistic. Knowing that such disasters can limit enjoyment of citizenship rights, Ghana has developed safety standards geared towards mitigating their effects. Framed around the compliance theory and drawing on data from 150 residential owners located within 15.4m buffer zone and five state institutions, this article examined the extent of compliance with safety policies guiding FSS in Kumasi, Ghana. The results showed that compliance with safety policies was sinking into its bare existential levels as none of the facilities selected for the study passed all the 11 safety standards. The facilities also negatively affected residents who never considered their place of abode as perilous and that they live in zones of vulnerabilities. This situation it is argued, fundamentally affects development trajectory of the contemporary African city. It obviously obscures the realities of interrelated processes shaping urban disaster management. Even though the spring-up of FSS have catapulted economic growth, inherently they are also hazard-ridden. We suggest that in the broad scheme of urban planning, FSS safety policies must not be discussed in the margins

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Owusu-Sekyere, E. Alhassan, H. Jengre, E. Amoah, S. T. Opare-Asmoah, K. Toku, A. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4341 2025-02-04T11:31:11Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: THE SOCIETAL SIGNIFICANCE OF INFORMAL ECONOMICS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN AN AFRICAN CITY Authors: Owusu-Sekyere, E.; Alhassan, H.; Jengre, E.; Amoah, S. T.; Opare-Asmoah, K.; Toku, A. Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic compelled many African countries to make decisions that lim ited livelihood choices. This article examines how informal traders (IT) in Kumasi, Ghana responded to the COVID-19. It explores the livelihood capacities, socioeconomic, socio cultural, and sociopolitical values of informal economics. Using data from multiple sources, the purchase and sale of personal protective equipment (PPE) emerged as the dominant livelihood activity. The results show that IT innovated their way of trading, realigned liveli hood activities, and created cross-sectoral networks that enhanced social cohesion. The emerging informal market catalyzed spin-off activities that linked values of the informal sector to the public, distributing agencies, producing companies, and the government. We argue that IT constitute a “natural” and “indispensable” share of Ghana’s urban economic, cultural, and governance space. The values of IT expressed within and between these distinct societal spheres should be amplified in the development discourses of countries like Ghana.

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