Dr Ato Kwamena Onoma, Department of Political Science Yale University, USA

“Of the many refreshing things about Komla Tsey’s book two things struck me as radically distinguishing it from much work on and approaches to development in Africa. He adopts a truly historical and broad approach to development that is foreign to the literature on development. He shows how development understood broadly as ‘the quest for a better future’ is not a project that arrived in Botoku, Ghana, recently but is one that people have been preoccupied with for centuries.”