Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Map of Botswana
- 2 Map of Ghana
- 3 Map of Kenya
- 1 Divergent Attitudes Towards Property Rights Institutions
- 2 Explaining Institutional Choice and Change
- 3 Varying Responses by Ghanaian and Batswana State Leaders
- 4 Traditional Leaders Take Charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga
- 5 Building and Then Demolishing Institutions in Kenya
- 6 Endogenous Contributions to Institutional Change
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Notes on Field Research
- Index
- References
3 - Varying Responses by Ghanaian and Batswana State Leaders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Map of Botswana
- 2 Map of Ghana
- 3 Map of Kenya
- 1 Divergent Attitudes Towards Property Rights Institutions
- 2 Explaining Institutional Choice and Change
- 3 Varying Responses by Ghanaian and Batswana State Leaders
- 4 Traditional Leaders Take Charge in Akyem Abuakwa and Ga
- 5 Building and Then Demolishing Institutions in Kenya
- 6 Endogenous Contributions to Institutional Change
- 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Notes on Field Research
- Index
- References
Summary
Residents of the prestigious Airport Residential Area in Accra, Ghana, woke up to a bewildering sight on April 12, 1999. With protection from well-armed members of the Ghana Armed Forces, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) was using bulldozers to demolish a newly constructed, $3-million-dollar, 65-bedroom hotel. In the days that followed, Ghanaians were to learn that the Salaam Hotel was owned by a certain Alhaji Yusuf. The AMA made strenuous efforts to convince Ghanaians that the demolition was nothing out of the ordinary, and that it was carried out after Alhaji Yusuf failed to comply with an order to stop building in a water-logged area. Given the widespread practice of building with little attention to building codes in the capital, many Ghanaians refused to believe the story that it was a normal demolition. Besides, all the other buildings in close proximity to the Salaam Hotel, which were clearly sitting in waterlogged plots too, were left untouched by the AMA.
Suspicion that the demolition was part of very high Ghanaian politics over control of the state was strengthened as the days unfolded. President Jerry Rawlings and his vociferous strongman, Tony Aidoo, both publicly defended the demolition. Their efforts at justifying the demolition took it out of the realm of ordinary AMA business. The use of well-armed soldiers instead of the police to provide protection for the demolition team also fueled suspicion that very senior government officials had a hand in the demolition.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa , pp. 61 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
References
“Demolition of $3 million ultra-modern hotel,” The Independent (Accra), April 27, 1999
“Reduced to rubble,” The Independent (Accra), April 29, 1999
“Demolition of $3 million ultra-modern hotel,” The Independent (Accra), April 27, 1999
“Reduced to rubble,” The Independent (Accra), April 29, 1999
“Criticism mounts against demolitions,” Mmegi (Gaborone), September 29, 2005
“Clergy joins demolitions fray,” Mmegi (Gaborone), February 1, 2002
, Politics and Rural Development in Southern Africa: The Evolution of Modern Botswana (London: Rex Collings, 1985), p. 4Google Scholar
and , “Winners and losers: privatising the commons in Botswana,” Securing the Commons No. 9 (London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003), pp. 4–5Google Scholar
1991. “Forward,” in and , eds. Multi-party Democracy in Botswana (Harare, Zimbabwe: SAPES Books, 1991), p. xGoogle Scholar
National Development Plan, 1968–73 (Gaberones: Government Printer, 1968), p. 10
, African Perspectives on Colonialism, The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History; 15th (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), p. 27Google Scholar
and , “Land Markets in African Cities: The Case of Peri-urban Accra, Ghana,” Urban Studies 37 (Part 13–2000), p. 2492CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, “Spatial planning and urban fragmentation in Accra,” Third World Planning Review 18, No. 2 (1996), p. 210CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, “The adaptability of African communal land tenure to economic opportunity: the example of land acquisition for oil palm farming in Ghana,” Africa 64, No. 3 (1994), p. 401CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , Land Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana. Vol. 5, Research Report (London: Natural Resources Group International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005), p. 20Google Scholar
, “Botswana's land tenure: institutional reform and policy formulation,” in , , and , eds. Land Policy and Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa: Selected Papers Presented at a Workshop Held in Gaborone, Botswana, 14–19 February, 1982 (Tokyo: United Nations University, 1986)Google Scholar
and , Land Management in Ghana: Building on Tradition and Modernity (London: International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001), p. ivGoogle Scholar
Report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Land Allocations in Gaborone (Gaborone: Government Printer, 2004)
, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)Google Scholar
, “The political economy of protection rackets in the past and the present,” Social Research, 67 (Fall 2000)Google Scholar
and , Policy Choice and Development Performance in Botswana (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, in association with the OECD Development Centre, 1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, “Corruption and mismanagement in Botswana,” Journal of Modern African Studies 32 (September 1994), pp. 516–517CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, “Interpreting the exceptionality of Botswana,” The Journal of Modern African Studies 30 (1–1992), pp. 77–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Kalahari Cattle Posts: A Regional Study of Hunter-Gatherers, Pastoralists, and Agriculturalists in the Western Sandveld Region, Central District, Botswana (Gaborone: Ministry of Local Government and Lands Republic of Botswana, 1978), p. 32Google Scholar
, “Bureaucrats, cattle and public policy: land tenure changes in Botswana,” Comparative Political Studies 13 (3–1980), p. 315CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, A Handbook of Tswana Law, and Custom (New York: Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, Oxford University Press, 1938)Google Scholar
, Native Land Tenure in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Lovedale, South Africa, The Lovedale Press, 1943)Google Scholar
and , Botswana: The Road to Independence (Gaborone, Botswana: Pula Press: The Botswana Society, 2000)Google Scholar
“Lenogate: ‘Mothibamele intervened for Leno’,” Guardian (Gaborone), February 28, 1986
“Minister talks on land purchase offer,” Gazette (Gaborone), February 4, 1986
Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Land Problems in Mogoditshane and Other Peri-Urban Villages (Gaborone: Government Printer, 1991)
Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Operations of the Botswana Housing Corporation (Gaborone: Government Printer, 1992)
, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), p. 50Google Scholar
“How civil servants fared in the Lesetedi Commission report,” Mmegi (Gaborone), August 16, 2004
, Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Ghana in Search of Development: The Challenge of Governance, Economic Management and Institution Building (Uppsala: Distributor Dept. of Sociology Uppsala University, 1998), pp. 134–141Google Scholar
, “Strategies of mobilization under the PNDC government,” in , ed., Ghana Under PNDC Rule (Dakar: Codesria, 1993), p. 103Google Scholar
, “The search for economic development and democracy in Ghana: from Limann to Rawlings,” in , ed., Ghana Under PNDC Rule (Dakar: Codesria, 1993), pp. 6–7Google Scholar
, “The politics of government–business relations in Ghana. Journal of Modern African Studies 30 (January 1992), p. 99CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, Power and class in Africa: An Introduction to Change and Conflict in African Politics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977), p. 256Google Scholar
“Leno Real Estates is clean-Mmusi,” Daily News (Gaborone), February 25, 1986
“Masire: I'm not in Leno,” Guardian (Gaborone), March 7, 1986
“Mmusi on the land issue,” Guardian (Gaborone), February 28, 1986
“Masire: I'm not in Leno,”' Guardian (Gaborone), March 7, 1986
, “States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa: the enduring contradictions of power,” in , , and , eds., State Power and Social Forces (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 109Google Scholar
, “Governments and agricultural markets in Africa,” Toward a Political Economy of Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), pp. 331–335Google Scholar
, Economic Reform in Africa: The Lessons of Ghana (Indianapolis: Universities Field Staff International, 1990), p. 3Google Scholar
“Land banks to attract investors,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), November 28, 2001
“District assemblies must set up land banks–Varsity Don,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), May 7, 2001
“Reserve land for investors,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), October 4, 1999
, “Lawyers in neoliberalism: authority's professional supplicants or society's amateurish conscience,” Codesria Bulletin, Nos. 3&4 (2006), p. 20Google Scholar
, “The economy,” in ed., Ghana: A Country Study (Washington, DC: Federal Research Division Library of Congress, 1995), pp. 168–173Google Scholar
“Land banks to attract investors,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), November 28, 2001
“District assemblies must set up land banks–Varsity Don,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), May 7, 2001
“Reserve land for investors,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), October 4, 1999
, “Political parties and democracy in Botswana,” in and , eds., Multiparty Democracy in Botswana (Harare, Zimbabwe: SAPES Books, 1991), pp. 6–8Google Scholar
, , and , Elections in Africa: a data handbook (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Report to His Honour the Vice President and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration on the General Elections, 1999 (Gaborone: Independent Electoral Commission, 1999)
Report to the Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration on the 2004 General Elections (Gaborone Botswana: Independent Electoral Commission, 2004)
, 1968. “The house of chiefs and the political development of Botswana,” Journal of Modern African Studies 6 (May 1968), p. 59CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, “Civil–military relations in Botswana's developmental state,” African Studies Quarterly 5 (February 2001)Google Scholar
“Criticism mounts against demolitions,” Mmegi (Gaborone), September 29, 2005
, Official Report of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Meeting of the House of Chief Sittings from 5th–7th August 1968 (Gaborone: Government Printer, 1968), p. 30Google Scholar
“Ablekuma! Land guards massing again, Dansoman Police inactive,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), June 21, 2001
“Trouble looms in Oblogo over chieftaincy, land sales,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), February 15, 2001
“Another landguard attack at Ablekuma,” The Independent (Accra), December 15, 1999
“Ablekuma saga continues, landguards still terrorizing Bortianor locals,” Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra), May 18, 2001
“Cop shot dead: 3 landguards in custody,” Daily Graphic (Accra), December 18, 2004
, The Vampire State in Africa: The Political Economy of Decline in Ghana (London: J. Currey, 1991), p. 73Google Scholar
, “The economic policies of the PNDC,” in , ed. Ghana Under PNDC Rule (Dakar: Codesria, 1993), p. 15Google Scholar
, The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), p. 14Google Scholar
and , “Macroeconomic and sectoral developments since 1990,” in , , and , eds. Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000), p. 9Google Scholar
, An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics: Managing Political Recession, 1969–1982 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983), pp. 194–195Google Scholar
, “Dealing with redundancies in government employment in Ghana,” in and , eds. Rehabilitating Government: Pay and Employment Reform in Africa, World Bank Regional, and Sectoral Studies (Washington DC: World Bank, 1994), p. 196Google Scholar
and , “Implementing civil service and employment reform in Africa: experiences of Ghana, Gambia, and Guinea,” in and , eds. Rehabilitating Government: Pay and Employment Reform in Africa, World Bank Regional, and Sectoral Studies (Washington DC: World Bank, 1994), p. 161Google Scholar
, “Nkrumah's cultural policy,” in ed. The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah: Papers of a Symposium (Accra: Sedco, 1991), p. 9Google Scholar
“Don't subvert the state–Jerry,” Daily Graphic (Accra), February 1, 1985
, “The Problem of land registration in Ghana through the eyes of a surveyor or map maker,” in , ed., Land Ownership and Registration in Ghana: A Collection of Studies (Kumasi, Ghana: Land Administration Research Centre University of Science and Technology, 1978), p. 92Google Scholar
“Another landguard attack at Ablekuma,” The Independent (Accra), December 15, 1999
, “The changing nature of urban governance in peri-urban Accra, Ghana,” Third World Planning Review 21 (April 1999): pp. 393–410CrossRefGoogle Scholar
“Tenant farmer narrates his ordeal to committee,” Daily Graphic (Accra), July 18, 1987
“Ban on landlords, tenant farmers in Western Region still in force,” Daily Graphic (Accra), March 12, 1987
“Six chiefs to pay back 84,450.50 cedis,” Daily Graphic (Accra), May 5, 1983
“Committee on tenant farmers sits,” Daily Graphic (Accra), May 22, 1986