Articles · Vol. 7 No. 1 (2003): African Sociological Review

Gone but not forgotten': Chieftaincy, Accountability and State Audit in Ghana, 1993-99

  • E Kojo Sakyi
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    Emmanuel Kojo Sakyi is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Management at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School. He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester. He is currently the...
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  • E Kojo Sakyi

    Emmanuel Kojo Sakyi is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Management at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School. He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester. He is currently the Academic Consultant/Course/holder for the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program at the Euro-Mediterranean University, Slovenia. E.K. Sakyi was the foundation Vice-Chancellor of the Ho Technical University, 2014 to 2018. During his years at Ho Technical University, he introduced significant qualitative institutional and human developments policies/programmes which made the University one of the indispensable Polytechnics which were converted to Technical Universities. Professor Sakyi has taught several public administration and management courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels and supervised over three dozen PhD students. He has undertaken multidisciplinary research projects in policy, public management reforms, local governance and decentralization and Sustainable Development Goals among many others. He has two edited books: Sakyi, E.K., A. Ahenkan and Bawole J.N. (2015) (eds.), Public Administration in Ghana: Selected Contemporary Issues, Accra: Digibooks; University of Ghana and, Sakyi, E.K. & Ahenkan Albert (2014) (eds.), Health Services Management: Readings from Ghana, Accra: Digibooks; University of Ghana. His research articles appeared in: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education; Public Organization Review; OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development; Politics & Policy and, African Social Science Review.

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