Agriculture plays a major role in the economic development of several African countries. The agricultural sector and the food processing delivery system are functioning inefficiently. To alleviate the problem, a comprehensive food and agriculture policy which allows for continuous evaluation and...

Town Unions emerged spontaneously throughout most African countries with the expressed objective of modernizing the rural areas. The paper examines the specific nature of indigenous African Town Union and demystifies the socio-cultural information of the dynamics of Town Union in Iboland of...

In order to illustrate the type of conflict that can arise and the policy dilemma that it can pose for central authorities, the author draws on empirical evidence taken from the Ghanaian situation. The first section of the paper shows how the nature of rural conflict has affected successive...