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... a very steep learning curve for the new editors ... Professor Takyiwaa Manuh ... currently the Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon ... Dr. Lynne Brydon is currently Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, (UK).
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This is the last time that we (Takyiwaa and Lynne) will frantically try to communicate with each other and have email space at the same time, and make time to read and edit submissions as we organise an issue of Ghana Studies. We hand over to younger colleagues
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