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Traders in Ghana

Women Traders in Ghana

Research

This paper examines the gendered politics of return migration to Ghana. Complicating notions of Afropolitan/Afrocosmopolitanism, women returnees leverage their social capital against the patriarchal norms of entrepreneurship and art in Ghana.

2013 “Transnational Mobility, Social Capital and Cosmopolitan Women Traders in Ghana”. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. 6(2): 208-217. DOI: 10.1080/17528631.2013.793138. Click HERE to access.

 

Other Projects

Dress Politics and Framing Self

Moral Capitalism

Doing The Snap

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