POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Barbed Wire, Shanty Town, Hukou System
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Is the encounter between global and local scales. It is the meeting point of micro and macro processes. We should be looking at cities in the south, as well as cities from the south: important sites which we can learn about urbanization from. Globalization in ghana: coastal country, ivory coast, colonial area= british gold coast. Central site in slave trade, used to extract natural resources: founded through anti-colonialism and pan-africanism. United africa solidarity and fate of all african people bound to each other. In order for there to be freedom, they must all work together. Global connections: post-independence ghana transitioned through waves of civilian and military rule, followed by democratic consolidation in 1992, largely agricultural and resource based economy restructured in 1980s to promote manufacturing. Urbanization in ghana: colonial era set up major cities especially along the coast, structural adjustment programs across west africa led to rapid urbanization in.
