The development of road transport in Southern Ghana and Ashanti since about 1850

Abstract

The story of the development of road transport in Southern Ghana and Ashanti begins much earlier than the nineteenth century, but the choice of the date 1 850 is not entirely arbitrary. If the economic history of Ghana were to be written, perhaps one might discover that most of the basic features of the country's present-day economic system had begun to emerge by about the middle of the nineteenth century. Complaints about many aspects of the country's economic life had been made before, but they became more insistent and more urgent during the 1850s. One of the subjects for loud complaints was that of road transport