From Head-Loading to the Iron Horse: Railway Building in Colonial Ghana and the Origins of Tropical Development
By Komla Tsey
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Komla Tsey
Komla Tsey is a Ghanaian by birth currently Professor of Education for Social Sustainability at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. Since the 1990’s Komla has been living in Australia, researching and learning about health and well-being, mainly with Aboriginal organizations and communities. He continues to undertake longitudinal studies of community development projects in Ghana. Komla has written more than 100 academic journal articles and research reports on a wide range of development related topics. He is author of Re-thinking Development in Africa: An Oral History Approach from Botoku, Rural Ghana (Langaa, 2011).
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