African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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There were encouraging signs that economic growth was gathering momentum. The International Development Association of the World Bank was among those that saw Ghana as the emerging success story in Africa, stating that the country was on track to achieve middle-income status by 2015. The government actively continued to offer inducements to the private sector and solicited additional aid from East Asia, specifically China, for telecommunications and infrastructural development. On the political front, all eyes were fixed on the campaign for leadership of the two leading parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as the 2008 elections loomed. The main parties traded accusations about their respective records of involvement in corruption and drug trafficking, while the smaller parties struggled to set an agenda of their own.