Akilagpa Sawyerr (Association of African Universities, Accra, Ghana)

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Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr
Director of Research
Association of African Universities
Box 5744
Accra-North
Ghana

phone:      233 21 774495 / 761588
fax:        233 21 774281
e-mail:     asawyerr@aau.org


Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and
Sciences, was educated at the Universities of Durham, London and
California at Berkeley, obtaining the degrees of LLB, LLM and J.S.D. He is
a Barrister at Law, Lincoln's Inn (UK), and Barrister at Law and Solicitor
of the Supreme Courts of Ghana and of Papua New Guinea.

Prof. Sawyerr, who is a Member of the United Nations Committee on
Development Policy, as well as a Director of the African Society of
International and Comparative Law, was President of the Council for the
Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA) from 1995 to 1998.
Other positions held by Professor Sawyerr include that of Chief Negotiator
for the Government of Ghana, Ghana-Valco Negotiations (1983-1985 and
1988-90), and Corresponding Member of the Institute of International
Business Law and Practice. 

Prof. Sawyerr has been teaching Law since 1964. He held the positions of
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Dar es Salaam.

From 1964 to 1970, and Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor
at the University of Ghana from 1970 to 1998.  He was a Professor of Law
at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1979 to 1984. 

From 1985-1992 Professor Sawyerr was Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Ghana.

Prof. Sawyerr's areas of research interest cover law, political economy,
human development, and higher education, and his publications include: 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA (ed.) UPNG
Press: Port Moresby, 1984.

THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMMES IN
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Ghana Universities Press: Accra, 1990.

"Multinational Corporations and Development: The Case of the Rubber 
Industry in Ghana", in Y P Ghai (ed) LAW IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF 
PUBLIC ENTERPRISE, Scandinavian Institute of African Affairs and I.L.C., 
Uppsala and  New York, 1977, 267-294.

"Changing Development Objectives and Strategies for Self-Reliant Economies 
in Africa: University Responses", Higher Education Policy, (1988) vol. 1 
No. 1, 19-23.

The Politics of Adjustment Policy", AFRICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 
(1989) vol 2, No. 4, 1-33. 

"Marginalisation", THE AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE
LAW (1992) Vol.5, Pt. 1. 

"Ghana: Relations between Government and Universities", in Neave, G. and 
F. A van Vught (eds.) GOVERNMENT AND HIGHER EDUCATION RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS 
THREE CONTINENTS: THE WINDS OF CHANGE Pergamon Press: Oxford, New York, 
Seoul and Tokyo, 1993.

"Education for different cultures and traditions: a comment", HIGHER 
EDUCATION POLICY, (1995) vol. 8, No. 4, 21-22.

"Academic freedom and university autonomy: preliminary thoughts from 
Africa", HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY, (1996) vol.9, No. 4, 281-287.

"Leadership and Organisation of African Universities" (1991).

"Does Africa really need her universities?" (1995).