CODESRIA Bulletin, No 1, 2021

Abstract

In this issue

Editorial: Godwin R. Murunga & Ibrahim O. Ogachi --------- 1

Éditorial: Godwin R. Murunga & Ibrahim O. Ogachi -------- 5

Pandemic and Social Distancing

1. The Racial and Olfactory Origin of Social Distancing, Richard Atimniraye Nyelade and Dunfu Zhang ----------7

Remembering Walter Rodney

2. The Continuing Relevance of Walter Rodney, Ian Taylor --------------- 15

3. Reclaiming the African Past and Present with Walter Rodney, David Johnson ------------ 27

Democracy and Elections in Ghana

4. Gilgamesh Dilemma in Counterbalancing Power in Ghana : Constraints, Opportunities and Possibilities, Clement Sefa-Nyarko ---------- 31

5. Ghana’s Democracy and the 2020 General Election : Signs of a Fading Promise ? Lloyd G. Adu Amoah-------------- 36

Financing Development and Democracy in Africa

6. The AfDB and its origins of financing development in Africa : Locating money finance within industrial policy, Richard Itaman -------------- 41

7. Reflections on Aid and Regime Change in Ethiopia : A Response to Cheeseman, Jimi O. Adesina, Andrew M. Fischer & Nimi Hoffmann --------------- 47

Tributes

8. A Personal Tribute to Professor Wamba dia Wamba, Msia Kibona Clark ------------------- 53