The colonial and post-colonial state in Ghana

For various reasons, Ghana is obviously important in any discussion of the post-colonial state in Africa. Firstly, it served as a ‘pioneering experiment’ in decolonization in Africa. Secondly, the Ghanaian state has passed through apparently different phases of development. And, thirdly, there is the rapidity with which successive variants of petty bourgeois regimes have followed one another since the gaining of independence in 1957.