Overview
- Deals with one of hottest topics in African politics today: the link between energy provision and rural development
- Provides unique insights into how energy provision is used as an essential incentive to capturing votes in key regions
- Draws an important link between internal and external power politics, and energy politics across sub-Saharan Africa
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“This book provides an insightful analysis for scholars and graduate students in political science, development economics, geography, engineering, and policy. It is also recommended for development practitioners and donors as they consider whether and how to advocate for increased private sector participation in the power sector across many developing countries.” (Lauren M. MacLean, African Studies Review, Vol. 62 (4), December, 2019)
“Electric energy development in Ghana is almost synonymous with development itself. As the first sub-Saharan Africa country to become self-governing in 1956 and independent in 1957, electrification efforts came to benefit diverse interests of Ghanaian society differently depending upon which interests were in power. Naaborle Sackeyfio explores those developments and asks the classic questions of political science of who benefits, how, and why. A prevailing dichotomy between rural and urban areas despite remarkable economic growth in recent years is a puzzle Sackeyfio also addresses while raising important issues about the meaning of class and populism in developing nations. In examining the relationship between hydropower and economic and political development in Ghana, this serious study makes a major, original contribution to an understanding of Ghanaian, African, and comparative politics.” (Irving Leonard Markovitz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Queens College, USA)“This study on energy politics and rural development in Ghana is an innovative and important contribution to the under-studied area of bridging the ‘electricity divide’ between city and village, and offers valuable lessons to developing countries in Africa and beyond.” (Adekeye Adebajo, Professor and Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Book Title: Energy Politics and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Book Subtitle: The Case of Ghana
Authors: Naaborle Sackeyfio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60122-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60121-2Published: 17 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86784-7Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60122-9Published: 26 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 193
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, Comparative Politics, Development Studies, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Electoral Politics, Regionalism