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Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00023

This article examines the contested ways in which the international development concept of “indigenous knowledge” has been used and understood by a variety of actors within Ghana including both Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian development workers, chiefs, a... Read More about Negotiating Difference: Discourses of Indigenous Knowledge and Development in Ghana.

Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana (2008)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2008). Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana. Africa, 78(3), 334-358. https://doi.org/10.3366/e0001972008000211

Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian... Read More about Life/History: personal narratives of development amongst NGO workers and activists in Ghana.