Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, is a vast informal settlement. A legalistic approach by successive governments has meant a near-absence of statutory institutions and the emergence of alternative public authorities. These endeavour to provide the area with a range of basic public services to solve the area's serious developmental challenges. Through processes of informa...

This article examines the use of tradition by minority groups whose territorial incorporation into British Northern Togoland under UN trusteeship was marked by political exclusion. This contrasts with the more typical pattern of productive and inclusive relations developing between chiefs and the administering authority within the boundaries of what was to become G...

En conséquence de l'exode rural, les Africains sont de plus en plus nombreux à vivre dans des peuplements informels. Dans le plus grand peuplement informel d'Accra, Old Fadama, les résidents n'ont, par définition, aucun droit statutaire aux terres et leurs activités de construction sapent le droit étatique formel et les propriétaires fonciers coutumiers reconnus pa...