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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Ghana, formerly known as Gold Coast, is a country situated in West Africa and was the first place in sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans 代写留学生论文arrived to trade - first in gold and later in slaves. It was also the first black African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence from a colonial power, Britain on 6th March, 1957.
Ghana is a rectangular-shaped country bordered to the north by Burkina Faso, the east by Togo, the south by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by Côte d’Ivoire covering a land mass of  238,533 sq km (92,098 sq miles). Its current estimated population is 23.9 million (UN, 2008). The current 4th Republican Constitutional multi-party democracy was started in 1992 and since that time Ghana has been able to conduct five successful national elections.
In African political and administrative history, decentralisation is not new. From the colonial period until the third quarter of the 20th century, decentralizations prevailed in the form of deconcentration almost without exemption.
 1.2 BRIEF OVERVIEW OF DECENTRALIZATION IN GHANA
The history of decentralization and local government in Ghana is traced back to the British colonial rule in the then Gold Coast, (Ghana) between 1878 and 1951 through the indirect rule. During this era the British colonial Administration governed indirectly through the existing chieftaincy institution, by constituting the chiefs and their elders in a particular district as the local authority, with powers “to establish treasuries, appoint staff and perform local government functions” (Nkrumah 2000: 55).
1.2.1 Rationale for Decentralisation in Ghana
1.3 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

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