Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of
Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon, where he obtained his PhD in
Sociology with a special interest in legal anthropology. His recent
research focuses on chieftaincy and law, migration, access to justice
and micro analysis of the court system. His publications are in the
Legon Journal of Sociology, Research Review, African Review, and the
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. He is a Postdoctoral
Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (AHP), and, has
collaborated with: colleagues in the English Department of the
University of Ghana on the Language Choice and Language Shift Among
Migrants in Accra; with colleagues at the University of Hamburg and
Bayreuth (both in Germany), and, LASDEL (Niamey) on African Courts and
Institutional Development), and, with Colleagues in the Sociology
Department and Department of Geography and Resource Development
(University of Ghana), on Migrant Chiefs in Urban Ghana.