GEOG 324-Regional Geography of West Africa, with Special Reference to Ghana

West Africa as a region will be examined, as will physical environmental challenges and the human responses as well as the patterns of economic activity with emphasis on Ghana.  The prospects of access: there will be a detailed study of West Africa as a geographical and political region, and of Ghana in particular, with regard to the following topics: the physical background; population characteristics and distribution; agriculture, pastoralism and forestry; transportation and industrialization.