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Taking It All Apart

In: Delivering Development

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  • Edward R. Carr

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In the early evening of July 8, 1997, I found myself sitting in the courtyard of a house in Dominase, a small rural village in Ghana’s Central Region. I was there to pay a social visit to some of the people who were kind enough to share the history of Dominase with me. It was pitch dark, and my 24-year-old Ghanaian research assistant, Francis Quayson, and I had walked about 500 meters from the slightly larger village of Ponkrum, where I was staying. We had used a flashlight to navigate the overgrown, uneven remnants of a dirt road between the two places. As per “official” local custom, I had brought a bottle of (appalling but cheap) local gin with me as a gift. This was accepted by Kwame, one of three brothers of the only family still living in this village. We sat and talked by his wife’s cook fire for a while, drinking the gin and discussing everything from the history of Dominase to the cost of living in the United States.

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  • Edward R. Carr, 2011. "Taking It All Apart," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Delivering Development, chapter 0, pages 1-18, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-31997-4_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230319974_1
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