at the University of Bergen

Isn’t it a great privilege to be supervised consecutivelyʊIRU both MPhil and PhD projectsʊby a skillful researcher who is privy to a student’s strengths and weaknesses? The one who has shown keen interest in Ghana and Ghanaian students and subjects her students’ manuscripts to what I call ‘radical surgery’. Throughout the years I have been under her supervision, I have greatly benefited from her meticulousness and attention to detail. Even our occasional disagreements over choice of concepts and argument formulation have always challenged me to think outside the box immediately after our meetings. The years under her supervision have been very eventful and successful – from e-mail communications, conference presentations, etc. to publications in prestigious journals. Kind words alone cannot express my profound appreciation for your dexterous training; it is a blessing to be under your tutelage! This PhD Thesis is proudly dedicated to Professor Ragnhild Overå, whom I affectionately describe as the ‘mother ’ to Ghanaian Geography students at the University of Bergen. Keep up the good work and continue to be conduit of blessing to Ghanaian Geography students! ACKNOWLEDGEMENT