Title:
TAMALE NDC AND NPP CLASHES FROM 1992-2002: A CHALLENGE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN GHANA?

Authors:
Salifu Alhassan

Volume:1 Issue: 10

Abstract:
Ghana that has often been described as an island of peace within the West African sub-region contains some pockets of violence which includes Tamale; a Metropolis in the northern part of the country. The end of the cold war in 1991 witnessed democratic reforms in many African countries then under military dictatorship. Ghana re-democratized in 1992 with numerous interparty clashes between the two main political parties in Ghana; the NDC and the NPP which inturn impacted negatively on good governance in the country. With the youth activists of both political parties engaging each other in street clashes, it violated fundamental human rights of citizens who fell victims to these violence while at the same time, scarce resources were dissipated in the search for peace. The paper sets out to validate the proposition that the violence is often sponsored by certain individual citizens to satisfy their parochial political interests in the region.

Citation:

[Alhassan, Salifu. "TAMALE NDC AND NPP CLASHES FROM 1992-2002: A CHALLENGE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN GHANA?" IJAH, vol. 1, no. 10, 2017, pp. 956-968. November.]