A Tale of Two Regimes: Imperialism, the Military and Class in Ghana

Review of African Political Economy

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 1979, Pages 36-55

  Hutchful, Eboe ^a  

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EID: 84947187731     PISSN: 03056244     EISSN: 17401720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03056247908703383     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. The 1966 coup and the policies of the NLC have been discussed in detail in my earlier article ‘The Political Economy of Military Intervention in Ghana 1966-69’, African Review, Vol. 6, No. 4.
2. An interesting account of IMF pressures on the Busia government to devalue is given in Ronald T. Libby, ‘External Co-optation of a Less Developed Country’s Policy Making: The Case of Ghana 1969-1972’, World Politics, VoL 29, No. 1.
3. An interesting discussion of the most recent military regime is in Yaw Saffu, ‘Politics in a Praetorian Polity: The Case of Ghana’, Seminar paper. Department of Political Science, University of Ghana 1976.
4. Among more general studies of Ghana quoted in the text see: Bjorn Beckman, Organising the Farmers: Cocoa Politics and National Development in Ghana, (Uppsala, 1976); and Tony Killick, Development Economics in Action: A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana, (Heinemann, London 1978); and Judith Marshall, ‘The State of Ambivalence: Right and Left Opposition in Ghana’, Review of African Political Economy, No.5,1976. Hamza Alavi’s discussion of the state can be found in his ‘The State in Post-Colonial Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh’, in Kathleen Gough and Hari Sharma, eds., Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, (Monthly Review Press, New York, 1973).