Learning How to Play to Win

Learning How to Play to win: What has 50 years of independence brought Ghana?

ISBN 9780955814105

Published 2007 by Professor Nana Araba Apt/Mot Juste

Size: 140 x 210mm

106 pages, plus an eight-page colour section with photographs. The book includes bibliographical references.

Professor Nana Araba Apt was perhaps better known in Ghana for her thought provoking Radio Univers programme ‘Let’s reason together’. A graduate of Queen’s University, University of Toronto and University of Ghana, Professor Apt was a frequent consultant to many international human development organisations including UN organisations.

Professor Apt was the founding Dean of Academic Affairs at Ashesi University College, Accra from 2001 until her retirement in 2013.

Before this position she taught at the University of Ghaha, Legon where she headed the Department of Sociology and Social Work. She was also the first director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS) at the University of Ghana, which she set up with UNICEF funding. Her research and publication record bridges disciplinary applications in gerontology, family relations, child development and women's education.

Through her studies she has set up HelpAge Ghana, Response and 'A College for Ama'; organisations working to improve the quality of life of older people, street children and education of gitls in rural areas.