Big Men and Small Boys: Power, Ideology and the Burden of History in Rawlings' Ghana, 1982-1994

Paul Nugent

"During the 1980s Ghanaian politics went through remarkable transformations - from revolution, through adoption of a draconian economic reform programme, to the eventual return to democratic government in 1992. This study covers the entire sequence of events, situating them in the broader historical context and offering a sustained explanation of what occurred. Since the eighteenth century, a central theme dominating Ghanaian politics and society has been the relationship between wealth and virtue, and Dr Nugent offers a key explanation of the way in which this theme is still predominant today."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on research which focuses on different sectors of the body politic - the labour movement, the peasantry, professional associations, the student movement, the churches and the military - this book provides a much-needed synthesis. Dr Nugent gives an in-depth analysis of...