The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies

Robertson, Claire

doi:10.1080/00083968.1983.10804032

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“…The wife's economic dependence on the husband is seen as a natural outcome of a rational decision intended to maximize family resources, and marriage occurs only if the benefits outweigh the costs. 1 When women attain higher education and subsequently become involved in paid work, however, an imbalance is created 1 In the Ghanaian context, it needs to be noted that some women have been semi-autonomous regardless of educational attainment (Clark 1994;Robertson, 1983). Clark's (1994) study of market women in Ashanti, for example, draws a connection between independent women traders and autonomy within the household.…”

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Cohort Differences in Women’s Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage in Ghana

Gyimah

2008

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Cohort Differences in Women’s Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage in Ghana

Gyimah

2008

Popul Res Policy Rev

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“…Signifi cantly, since the 1980s when the decentralisation concept was introduced, the grounds for a new research paradigm was set. In the process of decentralising the management of cities to urban authorities who defi ned their activities in terms of modernising cities, there were clashes with the hawkers who resisted attempts to remove them (Robertson 1983). …”

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A new informal economy in Africa: The case of Ghana

Obeng‐Odoom

Ameyaw

2014

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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“…Informal market centers in Africa have long been subjected to disruption in the name of planning and orderly development. “On Saturday, August 18, 1979,” wrote Claire Robertson (: 469), the American economic historian, “Makola, the Queen of Accra markets, died. It was an ignominious death unfitted to one so alive.…”

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The Social, Spatial, and Economic Roots of Urban Inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George

Obeng‐Odoom¹

2015

American J Econ Sociol

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ABSTRACT. Unravelling the social and economic roots of urban inequality in Africa has remained a thorny issue in African political economy. Stripped to its bare essentials, the critical questions are who causes urban inequality, what causes it, and how it is caused? While all different, the questions are interrelated. Answering the "who causes inequality" question requires a related analysis of what and why, and that is connected to the how question. Indeed, the how question has two parts-how inequality is caused and how it can be addressed. Both are connected to the why question and to its resolution. Unfortunately, while studies about urban inequality abound, they tend to hive off one aspect or another of the tripartite questions on inequality and, even worse, they study the three questions separately. This article tries to overcome the existing atomistic and piecemeal approach to the study of urban inequality in Africa by contextualizing the work of Jane Jacobs and Henry George, who took a holistic view of urban inequality. It argues that Jacobsianism and Georgism have much to offer in terms of understanding urban inequality in Africa, but neither analysis goes far enough to be able to serve as a solid foundation for policy. Ultimately, it is in their approach to urban analysis-the emphasis on context, on actual urban problems, inductivism, and some of their mechanisms for change such as George's land tax and cautious abstraction, in that order, along with their combined vision-which I call "diversity in equality"-that can add to the insights of postcolonialism in understanding and transforming urban inequality in Africa.

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The Death of Makola and Other Tragedies

Cited by 44 publications

References 6 publications

Cohort Differences in Women’s Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage in Ghana

Cohort Differences in Women’s Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage in Ghana

A new informal economy in Africa: The case of Ghana

The Social, Spatial, and Economic Roots of Urban Inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George

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