If I recall correctly, from the Santasi roundabout to Opoku Ware School stretch of the Kumasi-Obuasi road in Ghana, there is a school (or is it a church?) called 'Martyrs of Uganda School'. When I traversed this road regularly during my undergraduate days, I had fleeting moments of wonder about that name but never thought … Continue reading The Ugandan Martyrs and pilgrimage tourism in Namugongo
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Forcing the butterfly out of a cocoon: institutional formation and change in developing countries
In the first week of June, 2015 I attended a tourism research conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania organised by ATLAS Africa. For my presentations titled “Today is party A, tomorrow is party B”: the politics of the tourism-poverty nexus in Ghana I made the argument that the state is critical for tourism development and … Continue reading Forcing the butterfly out of a cocoon: institutional formation and change in developing countries
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 