WOPAG is an internet publication of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki. Our aim is to make research in progress on Ghana accessible and therefore we invite collegues and students to present papers for publication to the editors. You are also invited to link up information about ongoing research projects.

1/2004 Debating Zakat in Northern Ghana
Dr. Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi Univeristy and University of Helsinki

2/2004 Variations in the Colonial Representation of Islam and Muslims in Northern Ghana, ca. 1900-1930
Dr. Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi Univeristy and University of Helsinki

3/2004 Locust Invasions in Colonial Northern Ghana
Dr. Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi Univeristy and University of Helsinki

4/2004 Traditional Constitutions and Succession Disputes in the Northern Region, Ghana
N. J. K. Brukum, University of Ghana, Legon

5/2004 Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis in the Gold Coast, 1924-1954 (rewritten)
Jeff D. Grischow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

6/2005 Contested historical and geographical narratives: Succession disputes, contested land ownership and religious conflicts in northern Ghana
Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki

7/2005 Empowering Muslim Women Through Microcredit Scheme: The Case of the Sunyani Gonja Muslim Women’s Group
Dr. Charles Kessey, University of Helsinki

8/2005 Collision, collusion and muted resistance - contrasting early and later encounters with empire forestry in the Gold Coast, 1874-1957
D. Andrew Wardell, University of Copenhagen

9/2006 Globalisation, development and disease in colonial Northern Ghana, 1906-1960
Jeff Grischow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada