CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposals Submission Deadline: 2/28/2020
Full Chapters Due: 6/30/2020
60 Years of Ghana-China Relations: A Critical Appraisal
Editor: Lloyd G. Adu Amoah (University of Ghana, Legon)
Introduction
In 1949 Chairman Mao will declare in Tiananmen Square that “the Chinese have stood up.” The New China was born. In 1957, Kwame Nkrumah will insist at the Old Polo Grounds in Accra, that the “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the African continent.” The first country in Black Africa had regained her lost freedom. Both moments marked the culmination of struggle against world imperialism and the search for self- determination. Connected by these experiences the two nations will enter into formal diplomatic relations on July 5, 1960.
Intriguingly the fates of these two countries have come to be intimately intertwined. Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to enter into diplomatic relations with China. Kwame Nkrumah was en route to Hanoi to act as mediator between the U.S. and Vietnam when he was overthrown. Ghana’s former president J.A. Kufuor cast the vote that allowed China to be re-admitted to the United Nations in 1971. As at 2017 available data indicates that Ghana was the 7th largest trading partner of China in Africa. Ghana currently has the largest number of students from Africa studying in China.
This edited volume seeks to commemorate and critically reflect on 60 years of diplomatic, trade, economic, cultural, technological and commercial ties between Ghana and China. Vital questions are implicated in trying to unpack one of the most enduring and earliest relations of the New China with an African state :
What has been the nature of Ghana-China relations? What frictional forces have tested the relations? What are the sources of what seems an enduring friendship? What are the sources of friction? Have the two countries utilized fully the opportunities for mutually beneficial interactions across different spheres in their relations in the last six decades? What has Ghana learnt so far for her development aspirations in her relations with China? What has China learnt and can learn from Ghana? What are the impediments for this mutual learning? What are some of the success stories? Should the two nations recaliberate or maintain the forms and patterns of their relations thus far?
This call invites chapter proposals on Ghana-China relations in their varied expressions across multiple sectors within the broader framework of contemporary emergent Africa-Asia relations. Chapter proposals exploring the following thematic areas are strongly encouraged but should not be taken as exhaustive:
Specific Contributions of the Proposed Book
- Allow for a critical intellectual re-appraisal of Ghana-China relations over a long dureé.
- It will be a timely addition to the growing literature on Ghana-China relations in particular and Africa-Asia relations generally especially in critical areas such as politics, economy, environment, culture and society, technology, education and migration.
- It will serve as a seminal commemorative work for sixty years of Ghana-China relations.
Target Audience
The book aims to be useful for research and teaching, especially serving as a top notch advanced reference material at the tertiary level of education. Targeted readership encompasses policy analysts, policymakers, academics, and researchers for whom the book will offer insights into the key empirical and theoretical matters framing Africa's quest for world class university education in the past, present and the future. The general reader should find the work useful as well.
Recommended Topics
The themes for chapters will revolve around, but need not be limited to the following:
Diplomacy, Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Diasporization and Migration
Ghana and the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC)
People to People Engagement
Technological Innovation and Transfer
The Developmental State and Industrialization
Ideas, the Economy and National Transformation
Trade, Investment and Commercial Connections
Culture and Development
ICT, Knowledge Society, New Media and Society
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Education -Strategies and Experiences for Development
Ghana and Chinese Aid
Technological Innovation and Transfer
Submission Procedure
Researchers, academics and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2020, a 1page page chapter proposal clearly outlining the central concerns of their proposed chapter and in particular the methodological approaches and whether or not the work in question will be broadly empirical and/ or theoretical. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2020 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by June 30, 2020. All submitted chapters will be subjected to a double-blind review process.
Publisher
This book will be published by the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana in collaboration with the University of Ghana Press. This publication is anticipated to be released in November 2020 or latest early 2021.
Key Dates
February 28, 2020: Proposal Submission Deadline
March 10, 2020: Notification of Acceptance
June 30, 2020: Full Chapter Submission
August 20, 2020: Review Results Returned
October 30, 2020: Post Review Final Chapter Submission
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Lloyd G. Adu Amoah, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
&
Centre for Asian Studies
University of Ghana, Legon
P.O.Box LG 64, Legon
Accra, Ghana
lgamoah@ug.edu.gh
Cell: +00233201753565
