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Is globalization beneficial to Africa? Does it open infinite opportunities for economic growth, development and social transformation of the continent? It is the assertion of contributions to this collection that for Africa, globalisation is a counter-revolutionary movement that is stalling the drive of the continent's societies to transform themselves into developed and prosperous entities--just as slavery and colonialism. Included are contributions from eminent scholars such as Samir Amin, Horace Campbell, Thandika Mkandawire and Cyril Obi.

This book exposes the negative implications of an acceptance of the informal sector on the masses of the people, especially workers, the poor and unemployed. The author argues that the informal sector is a malignant symptom of a weak capitalist economy. More especially, it is dominated and exploited by the international economy through the weak national capitalist economy. Therefore, it does not have any chance of emerging as an independent and dynamic economic sector that is capable of creating employment for the unemployed and providing a living income for the poor. (DÜI-Hff)

In this paper, the author examines the impact of the structural adjustment programme (SAP) in Ghana on key social groups like urban workers, students, and the business community, and on the lower classes in general. He analyses their political responses to those aspects of SAP that had a negative effect on them. (DÜI-Hff)

This book employs a Marxist framework to analyse aspects of Ghanaian politics during the 1966-81 period. Its central claim is that the present Ghanaian social formation which is dominated by foreign capital through the domestic bourgeois and petit-bourgeois classes is incapable of transforming itself into an independent autonomous system. Hence, it is characterised by recurring political and economic crises. Industrial strikes and other forms of struggle by the lower classes are responses to the deprivations which they suffer as a result of these crises, and constitute attempts to reject the rule of the country's ruling classes. (DÜI-Hff)

Ghana attained independence in 1957. From 1992, when a new constitution came into force and established a new - democratic - framework for governing the country, elections have been organized every four years to choose the governing elites. The essays in this volume are about those elections because elections give meaning to the role of citizens in democratic governance. The chapters depart from the study of formal structures by which the electorate choose their representatives. They evaluate the institutional forms that representation take in the Ghanaian context, and study elections outside the specific institutional forms that according to democratic theory are necessary for arriving at the nature of the relationships that are formed between the voters and their representatives and the nature and quality of their contribution to the democratic process.