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As urbanisation speeds up — there are now 4.6-million people living in greater Accra — so mayors and local governments are going to need more power, argues Accra mayor Mohammed Adjei Sowah.

Mohammed Adjei Sowah is acutely aware of the limits of his own power. The mayor of the Accra metropolitan area — the heart of Ghana’s sprawling capital, home to 1.6-million people and counting — is expected by residents to be able to solve all of the city’s problems, but he does not always have the authority to do so.

Part of this challenge is the often confusing distribution of responsibilities between local and national governments.

 

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