Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants’ ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method, we focus on two informal daily livelihoods as exemplars – exceptionalism – in Accra. We see their embedded organisational vitality and dynamic networks as illuminating for good livelihood practices, proper city governance and fostering economic empowerment. We call on city authorities to take cognisance of such complexities and heterogeneity of production–labour relations, failure of which can spell doom for policies ostensibly initiated to curb migration, as they are likely to be underpinned by factual inaccuracies and may result in ill-fated interventions.

Travel philanthropy is a growing phenomenon within the Larabanga-Mognori enclave in northern Ghana. This article seeks to assess the impacts of such visitor largess on community needs and development. Purposive sampling techniques were employed in

Generally, urban crime research in Ghana is non-ambiguous on the socio-cultural, political economy and environmental ramifications of neighbourhood crimes in emerging cities, but the personal and neighbourhood level characteristics of the most likely victims of neighbourhood crime in Ghanaian cities remain meagre. This paper fills the gap in knowledge by answering the question ‘who/where is the most likely victim of crime in urban Ghana?’ This study employed a sequential mixed methods approach to collect data through the administration of a household survey, as well as focus group discussion (FDG) sessions. The survey data were analysed using binary logistic regression while the qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. The study found that socio-demographic characteristics, which are associated with a higher likelihood of victimisation, include young unemployed persons, residents of a detached or ‘self-contained’ apartment, household of increasing household size, residents of neighbourhoods with less police visibility and residents of unsafe neighbourhoods. Cognisance of the limited capacity of the Ghana Police Service, this study recommends the need for the Ghana Police Service to consider neighbourhood demographic characteristics in their efforts to enhance distributive justice in the provision of internal security.

This article examines the determinants of residents' perception of local level safety of life and property in an environment of rapid urbanisation and limited governments' efforts to adequately secure urban Ghana. In a survey of 1,335 respondents, 54 key informants and 12 focus group discussions, the results, from binary logistic regression and thematic analyses, indicate a generally safe urban space but varied individual and neighbourhood level determinants of safety of life and property. However, there is no statistically significant difference in the determinants and construction of safety across the three socioeconomic neighbourhoods in the metropolises partly because of blur territoriality between settlements in the cities. The paper recommends collaboration between home/land owners and urban planners as one of the surest way of improving neighbourhood boundaries and perception of safety.

End of life care is an integral part of the global public health care system but it has differently gained scholarly attention and traction in the literature. This article demonstrates how end of life care service is perceived, provided and accessed via a comparative systematic review of the Ghanaians’ and Germans’ end of life care systems. These care perspectives unraveled innovative practices and form the basis for evidence-based future research.