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Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study

Porter, Gina; Hampshire, Kate; Abane, Albert; Munthali, Alister; Robson, Elsbeth; Mashiri, Mac; Tanle, Augustine (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

The penetration of mobile phones into sub-Saharan Africa has occurred with amazing rapidity: for many young people, they now represent a very significant element of their daily life. This paper explores usage and perceived ...
Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: perspectives from urban Africa

Porter, Gina; Hampshire, Kate; Lannoy, Ariane De; Bango, Andisiwe; Munthali, Alister; Robson, Elsbeth; Tanle, Augustine; Abane, Albert; Owusu, Samuel (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods ...
Women’s participation in ecotourism development within the Kakum conservation Area, Ghana: implications for community planning

Nutsugbodo, Ricky Yao; Mensah, Collins Adjei; Amenumey, Edem Kwesi; Owusu, Charlotte Ansah (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

The paper assessed the level of participation of women in the management of the Kakum Conservation Area in Ghana focusing on selected communities. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, 169 women were selected. Questionnaire ...
Who is reaching whom? Depth of outreach of rural micro finance institutions in Ghana

Awusabo-Asare, K.; Annim, S. K.; Abane, A. M.; Asare-Minta, D. (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

Outreach of microfinance institutions has been saddled with the definition of who is poor specifically within the context of an individual’s capability to access financial and non-financial services. This paper presents ...
Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi

Hampshire, Kate; Porter, Gina; Mariwah, Simon; Munthali, Alister; Robson, Elsbeth; Asiedu, Samuel; Abane, Owusu Albert; Milner, James (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

Africa’s recent communications ‘revolution’ has generated optimism that using mobile phones for health (mhealth) can help bridge healthcare gaps, particularly for rural, hard-to-reach populations. However, while scale-up ...
Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: learning from mobile ethnographies on the ourney from school

Porter, Gina; Hampshire, Kate; Abane, Albert; Munthali, Alister; Robson, Elsbeth; Mashiri, Mac; Maponya, Goodhope (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

This paper draws on mobility research conducted with children in three countries: Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. It has two interlinked aims: to highlight the potential that mobile interviews can offer in research with ...
Wetland river flow interaction in a sedimentary formation of the White Volta Basin of Ghana

Nyarko, Benjamin Kofi (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Groundwater resources in the floodplain wetlands of the White Volta River basin of Ghana is a major source of water for irrigation activities of communities living around and baseflow to sustain the flow of the river. ...
Users’ perceptions of service quality in Murtala Muhammed International Airport (Mmia), Lagos, Nigeria

Ojo, Thomas Kolawole (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

MMIA enjoys the position of aviation hub in Nigeria, in terms of passengers’ and freights movements. This is because of the available facilities and services. The functionalities of these services and facilities have come ...
Urban land use/land cover changes in the Tema Metropolitan area, Ghana (1990 – 2010)

Amenyo-Xa, Mark Seyram; Mariwah, Simon; Osei, Kingsley Nana (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

Land use and land cover changes are local and place specific, occurring incrementally in ways that often escape our attention. This study sought to detect changes in land cover in the Tema Metropolis of Ghana from 1990 to ...
Urban green spaces in Africa: Nature and challenges

Mensah, Collins Adjei (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Green spaces constitute a major environmental resource of urban landscape. In Africa, statistics show that urban green spaces are depleting at an alarming rate with green spaces now occupying small proportion of the landmass ...
Urban environmental injustice in Ghana: The activities of small-scale palm oil producers in the Ahanta West District

Mensah, C. Adjei; Biney, S.O.; Dauda, S. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Urban residents are often subjected to different forms of environmental injustices that often ruin their well-being. This paper sought to examine environmental injustices caused by activities of small-scale palm oil producers ...
Transport system and climate change risks: potential adaptation constraints and opportunities in Ghana

Atampugre, Gerald; Larbi, Martin; Ojo, Thomas Kolawole; Liu, Gengyuan (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

This review explored the potential climate risks for transportation and probable institutional constraints and opportunities for adaptation in Ghana. Using documentary research and on the foundation of the Transport ...
Trade patterns in Ghana at the beginning of the eighteenth century

Dickson, K. B. (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

The end of the seventeenth century is especially important in the historical geography of Ghana; for many of the features of the country's present human geography appeared or began to evolve at that time. The fundamental ...
Towards sustainability: Overcoming the physical barriers to urban green spaces in Kumasi, Ghana

Mensah, Collins Adjei; Antwi, Kwabena Barima; Eshun, James Kweku; Baidoo, Paul (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

Conserving green spaces (parks, gardens, forest) in the physical landscape of cities is an action that has been identified as contributing to the sustainability of cities. However, to be able to conserve such spaces, some ...
The soul is willing but ...: Exploring community sanitation preferences for environmental sustainability

Mariwah, Simon (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

Sanitation has been" dentified as an essential aspect of evelopment as it affects the quality of life and roductivity of the population. But sanitation facilities are only sustainable when people make their own choices and ...
The role of trust in a self-organizing pharmaceutical supply chain model with variable drug quality and imperfect information

Auckland, Graeme J.; Chattoe-Brown, Edmund; Heather, Hamill; Hampshire, Kate R.; Mariwah, Simon; Mshana, Gerry (University of Cape Coast, 2019-03-31)

We present an Agent-Based Model (herea er ABM) for a pharmaceutical supply chain operating under conditions of weak regulation and imperfect information, exploring the possibility of poor qualitymedicines and their detection. ...
The relationship between sustainable development and resource use from a geographic perspective

Aikin, Eric K.W. (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Geography provides the basic building blocks or the study of resource use and sustainable development, inasmuch as it categorizes the human environment. Within the environment are resources that are needed or the survival ...
The plight of working children at Mankessim, Ghana

Esia-Donkoh, Kobina; Abani, Albert M.; Esia-Donkoh, Kweku (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

Children serve as social assets or domestic and economic activities. It is therefore not uncommon to see children in Ghana working under the instructions of their parents. In some instances, children are engaged in economic ...
The impact of gender and physical environment on the handwashing behaviour of university students in Ghana

Mariwah, Simon; Hampshire, Kate; Kasim, Adetayo (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

objectives To establish levels of handwashing after defecation among students at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, and to test hypotheses that gender and washroom environment affect handwashing behaviour. Methods Data ...
The development of road transport in Southern Ghana and Ashanti since about 1850

Dickson, K. B. (University of Cape Coast, 1961)

The story of the development of road transport in Southern Ghana and Ashanti begins much earlier than the nineteenth century, but the choice of the date 1 850 is not entirely arbitrary. If the economic history of Ghana ...

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