Ian Yeboah

Education

• BA, (Hons.) University of Science and Technology (1982)
• MSc, Geography. University of Calgary, Canada (1988)
• PhD, Geography. University of Calgary, Canada (1994)

Interests

My research and teaching focus on three areas.  These are globalization and Sub-Saharan African urbanization, migration, and poverty.  My work is situated within two areas of specialization of the department: global development and politics and, urbanization and mobility.  I have supervised a number of graduate students who have gone on to Ph.D. programs all over North America.

Courses

• GEO 101: Global Forces- Local diversity
• GEO 276: Geography of the Global Economy
• GEO 301: Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
• GEO 475/575:  Global Periphery’s Urbanization
• GEO 476/576: Global Poverty

Selected Publications

Books:

• 2008: Black African Neo-Diaspora: Ghanaian Immigrant Experiences in the Greater Cincinnati Area. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD., USA

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• 2023: Globalization, Western-Style Malls and Consumerism in the Accra-Tema City Region, Ghana. International Development Planning Review, 45:2, 175-202, with Asante-Wusu, I. and Arku, G.
• 2022: Regimes of Accumulation and the Production of the Built Environment of Cantonments, Accra-Tema City-Region. GeoJournal 87, 3967-3986 with Arku, G. & Maingi, J.K.
• 2021: 'World Trade Center, Accra': Production of Urban Space for the Continued Peripheral Linkage of Ghana Under Globalization, African Geographical Review, 40:1, 19-32, with Maingi, J.K. & Arku, G.
• 2020: Geography of Water Insecurity in Three Localities in Accra-Tema City-Region, Ghana. African Geographical Review, 39:4, 308-323, with I Asante-Wusu. 
• 2018: Capitalism and Sub-Saharan African Human Capital. African Identities, (doi.org/10.1080/14725843.1332983) published online on 18 June.
• 2016: Public Parks as an Element of Urban Planning: A Missing Piece in Accra's Growth and Development. Local Environment,  Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 1500-1515, with Godwin Arku and Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong.
• 2014: Development Practice and the Production of the Ghanaian Urban System in Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Delali Margaret Badasu and Stepphen Owusu Kwankye (eds.) Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers (in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the University of Ghana), with S.N. Codjoe.
• 2013: Emerging Urban System Demographic Trends: Informing Ghana's National Urban Policy and Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa Today, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 98-124 (with Codjoe, S.N.A. and Maingi, J.K.)
• 2013: Producing an Urban System for the Spatial Development of Ghana, African Geographical Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 140-156 (with Codjoe, S.N.A. and Maingi, J.K.)
• 2011: Insider-outsider collaborations in sub-Saharan African development discourse: easing tensions within the academy, Environment and Planning A 2011, volume 43, pages 2793-94
• 2008: Ethnic Emancipation and Urban Land Claims: Disenfranchisement of the Ga of Accra, Ghana. Geographical Research, 46(4): 435-445
• 2007: HIV/AIDS and the Construction of Africa: Heuristic Lessons from the Social Sciences for Policy. Social Science and Medicine, 64: 1128-1150
• 2006: Subaltern Strategies and Development Practice: Urban Water Privatization in Ghana. The Geographical Journal, 172(1): 50-65
• 2005: Housing the Urban Poor in Twenty-first Century Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Mismatch and a Way Forward for Ghana. GeoJournal, 62(1): 147-161
• 2003: Demographic and Housing Aspects of Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana. AfricaToday, 50(1): 106-119
• 2000: 'Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana', Africa Today, 47:2, 61-89

Other Articles

• 2017: Review of Oxford Street Accra. City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism by Ato Quyson, Geographical Review, Vol. 108; No. 1, pp. 164-167.
• 2011: Thirtieth Anniversary of African Geographical Review: Hisotry, Adoption, Institutionalization, and the Future of the Journal w/Bakama BakamaNume, and Kefa Otiso in African Geographical Review, 30.2, 5-17
• 2007: Editorial: African Soccer and Brain Drain: Potential Developmental Impacts in African Geographical Review, Vol. 26, 5-9
• 2006: Editorial: A New Day for African Geography w/William Moseley in African Geographical Review, Vol. 25, 5-9

Book Chapters

• 2024: Urban Transition and Economic Development in Africa. In Padraig Carmody and James T. Murphy (eds) Handbook of African Economic Development, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• 2014: Codjoe, S.N.A. and Yeboah, I.E.A. Development Practice and the Production of the Ghanaian Urban System in Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Delali Margaret Badasu and Stephen Owusu Kwankye (eds.) Population Studies: Key Issues and Contemporary Trends. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers (in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the University of Ghana)
• 2012: Identity Politics of Ghanaians in the Greater Cincinnati Area: Emerging Geography and Sociology of Immigrant Experiences in Africans Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands, in John Arthur, Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu (eds.) Lanham: Lexington Books
• 2012: Geography of Globalized Nursing Market: Zimbabwean Nurse Trajectory and Work Experiences in the UK (with Tatenda Mambo) in Africans Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands in John Arthur, Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu (eds.) Lanham; Lexington Books.
• 2010: Historical Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and Constraints in Sam Aryeetey-Attoh (ed.)Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 93-120, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
• 2010: Political Landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa and Emerging Democratic Trend in Sam Aryeetey-Attoh (ed.)Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 121-150, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
• 2009: Globalization and Ghanaian Immigrant Trajectories to Cincinnati: Who Benefits? In John Frazier, Joe T. Darden & Norah F. Henry (eds.) The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the dawn of the 21st Century: Global Academic Publishing: Binghamton, New York