SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Young people’s employment aspirations and transitions
Anarfi, J. K., Anyidoho, N. A. & Verschoor, A. (2008). The economic empowerment of young people in Ghana. [Commissioned research report for World Bank]
Anyidoho, N.A. (2016). Skills training and economic restructuring to create jobs for young people in Africa. Available at www.includeplatform.net
Anyidoho, N.A. & Omolo, J. (2016). Situational analysis of youth in Africa. [Analytical report commissioned by Economic Commission on Africa (ECA)].
Anyidoho, N.A., Kayuni, H., Ndungu, J., Leavy, J., Sall, M., Tadele, G. & Sumberg, S. (2012). Young people and policy narratives in sub-Saharan Africa. FAC Working paper 032. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com
Anyidoho, N.A., Leavy, J. & Asenso-Okyere, K. (2012). Perceptions and aspirations: A case study of young people in Ghana’s cocoa sector. IDS Bulletin, 43 (6), 20-32.
Ajayi, K., & Anyidoho, N. A. (2017). Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana. WIDER Working Paper 2017/147. Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER. Available at https://www.unu-wider.edu
McAdams, D., Bauer, J. J., Sakaeda, A., Anyidoho, N. A., Machado, M. A., Magrino-Failla, K., White, K. W. & Pals, J. L. (2006). Continuity and change in the life story: A longitudinal study of autobiographical memories in emerging adulthood. Journal of Personality, 74(5), 1371-1400(30).
Sumberg, J., Anyidoho, N.A., Chasukwa, M., Chinsinga, B., Leavy, J., Tadele, G., Whitfield, S. & Yaro, J. (2015). Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa. In D. Resnick & Thurlow, J. (Eds.), African youth and the persistence of marginalization: employment, politics, and prospects for change. New York: Routledge.
Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J. and Anyidoho, N.A. (2017). Young people’s perspectives on farming in Ghana: a Q study. Food Security. DOI 10.1007/s12571-016-0646-y
Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J. & Anyidoho, N. A. (2015). Perspectives on jobs and farming: findings from a Q study with young people, parents and development workers in rural Ghana. FAC Working Paper 109. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com
Yeboah, T., Sumberg, J., Flynn, J. and Anyidoho, N.A. (2016). What is a desirable job? What makes a job desirable? Findings from a Q study with students and parents in rural Ghana. European Journal of Development Research. doi:10.1057/s41287-016-0006-y
Women’s work and empowerment
Anyidoho, N. A. (2013). Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Accra City Report. Manchester, UK: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Available at www.wiego.org
Anyidoho, N. A., & Adomako Ampofo, A. (2017). Informalising the formal: the conditions of female agency workers in Ghana's banking sector. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 4(2), 67-92
Anyidoho, N.A. & Adomako Ampofo, A. (2015). “How can I come to work on Saturday when I have a family?”: Ghanaian women and bank work in a neo-liberal era. In C. Rodriguez, D. Tsikata & A. Adomako Ampofo (Eds.), Transatlantic feminisms: women and Gender Studies in Africa and the diaspora. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Anyidoho, N.A. & Steel, W.F. (2016). Informal-formal linkages in market and street trading in Accra. African Review of Economics and Finance, 8(2), 171-200.
Anyidoho, N.A. & Steel, W.F. (2015). Perceptions of costs and benefits of informal-formal linkages: Market and street vendors in Accra, Ghana. WIEGO Working Paper 35. Cambridge, MA: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Available at www.wiego.org
Butler, L.M., Kobati, G.Y., Anyidoho, N.A, Colecraft, E.K., Marquis, G.S. & Sakyi-Dawson, O. (2012). Microcredit-Education: A case study analysis of Ghanaian women’s experiences with income generation and family care. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 21(1), 5709-5724.
Manuh, T. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2015). To Beijing and back: Reflections on the influence of the Beijing Conference on popular notions of women’s empowerment in Ghana. IDS Bulletin, 46(4), 19-27.
Manuh, T., Anyidoho, N. A. & Phobee-Hayford, F. (2013). “Just a femocrat doing my job”: Working within the state to advance women’s empowerment in Ghana. In R. Eyben & L. Turquet (Eds.), Feminists in development organizations: changes from the margins. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing.
Analysis of social policy discourses and practices
Anyidoho, N.A. (2017). Making sense of participation. In G. Owusu, R.D. Osei & F.A. Asante (Eds.), Contemporary issues in development policy and practice in Ghana: a reader. Accra: University of Ghana/Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Anyidoho, N. A. (2012). On whose terms? Negotiating participatory development in a fluid policy landscape. In H. Lauer & K. Anyidoho (Eds.), Reclaiming the Social Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives.
Anyidoho, N. A. (2010). Theorising the intersection of public policy and personal lives through the lens of ‘participation’, Africa Development, 25(3), 1-11.
Anyidoho, N.A. (2010). ‘Communities of practice’: Prospects for theory and action in participatory development. Development in Practice, 20(3), 318-328.
Anyidoho, N. A. (2003). Educational language policy in Ghana: Inserting the global into the local. International Journal of Learning, 10, 2983-2988.
Anyidoho, A. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2009). Political considerations in the choice of medium of instruction. Research Review, Supplement 19, 9-34.
Anyidoho, N.A., Kayuni, H., Ndungu, J., Leavy, J., Sall, M., Tadele, G. & Sumberg, S. (2012). Young people and policy narratives in sub-Saharan Africa. FAC Working paper 032. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com
Anyidoho, N.A. & Manuh. T. (2010). Discourses of women’s empowerment in Ghana. Development, 53(2), 267-273.
Cornwall, A. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2010). Women’s empowerment: contentions and contestations. Development, 53(2), 144-149.
Manuh, T. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2015). To Beijing and back: Reflections on the influence of the Beijing Conference on popular notions of women’s empowerment in Ghana. IDS Bulletin, 46(4), 19-27.
Sarpong, D. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2012). Climate change and agricultural policy processes in Ghana. FAC Working Paper 45. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com.
Other Themes
Civil society activism
Aberese, M., Anyidoho, N.A. & Crawford, G. (2013). NGOs, rights-based approaches and the potential for progressive development in local contexts: constraints and challenges in northern Ghana. Journal of Human Rights Practice. 5(1), 46-74
Anyidoho, N.A. & Crawford, G. (2014). Leveraging global links for local advocacy: WACAM’s challenge to the power of transnational mining corporations. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(4), 483-502.
Anyidoho, N.A. & Gariba, S. (2016). An analytical paper on monitoring, evaluation and learning from collective action movements in Africa. [Analytical report for Rockefeller Foundation with the Institute for Policy Alternatives]
Crawford, G. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2013). Ghana: Struggles for rights in a democratising context. In B. A. Andreassen & G. Crawford (eds.), Human rights, power and civic action: comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies. London: Routledge.
Reflections on the state and study of Ghana/Africa
Anyidoho, N. A. (2008). Recapturing the dream. In K. Gyekye (Ed.), Ghana@50 anniversary lectures (pp. 391-398). Accra: National Planning Committee of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations.
Anyidoho, N. A. (2008). Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation, Africa Development, 33(1), 25-39.
Anyidoho, N.A. (2006). Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation. In Björn Beckman & Gbemisola Remi Adeoti (Eds.), Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and resistance in African politics (pp. 156-169). London: Zed Books.
Anyidoho, N. A. & Asante, K. (2008). Truly national? Social inclusion and the Ghana@50 celebrations. Ghana Studies, 11, 139-173.