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BOOK REVIEW â CRITIQUE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE On Law and Liberty in Contemporary Ghana: the 41st J. B. Danquah Memorial Lectures, Justice S. K. Date-Bah [Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accra, Ghana 2008] 105 pp This volume contains the texts of three lectures delivered by one of Ghanaâs most distinguished judges. They provide a succinct but invaluable insight into the health of the contemporary Ghanaian body politic from the perspective of liberty under the law. Given the dark aspects of Ghanaâs past record in this respect (Justice Date-Bah begins his ï¬rst lecture with a quotation from a letter written in 1962 by Dr Danquah from the prison where he had been incarcerated by the then President Kwame Nkrumah), the picture painted of Ghana in the ï¬rst decade of the twenty-ï¬rst century gives grounds for cautious optimism. Within a framework of analysis of ânegative libertyâ (freedom from intrusions by the State and others) and âpositive libertyâ (which enables the citizen to participate actively in government sand society), Justice Date-Bah (who had a distinguished career as an academic and practitioner before his elevation to the Supreme Court bench in 2003), reviews the progress made since 1962 in the context of the
African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2009
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