Urban Africa 2050
Accra, Ghana

City Overview

Population
2018: 4,010,054
2030: 6,189,612
2050: 8,700,125

Host Institution
Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon

Overview of the City:
The Greater Accra Region is the smallest of the 10 administrative regions in terms of area, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres or 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. The political administration of the region is carried out through the local government system. Under this system, the region is divided into six districts namely, including the Accra Metropolitan District which is administered by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) under the Chief Executive who is also the Mayor of the city. For the purposes of this study, our concentration will be on the Accra Metropolitan District which is equivalent to the city of Accra. In terms of population, the district is the largest with a population of 4,010,054 accounting for 15.4 per cent of Ghana’s total population.

Relevant Documents/ Information/ Resources

  • Fuder, John & Noel Castellanos, ed. A Heart for the Community – New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry, (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2009).
  • Fuder, John. Training Students for Urban Ministry: An Experiential Approach. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001.
  • Ghana Statistical Service, Population and Housing Census: Republic of Ghana. (Accra: GSS, 2010)
  • State of the World Population 2007 – Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth (New York, UNFPA Publications, 2008)
  • Stockwell, Clinton. ‘The Church and Justice in Crisis’ in Manuel Ortiz & Susan Baker, The Urban Face of Mission. Philipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2002, 164-184
  • The UN Habitat Report on The State of African Cities 2010

Own Writings

  1. ‘Unless the Lord Watches Over the City – Urbanisation and Christian Witness in
    Ghana’, Journal of African Christian Thought, Vol.14 No.2 (December 2011) p.17-27
  2. ‘Commercial Sex Work in Ghana: An Urban Mission Challenge’ in Trinity Journal of Church and Theology Vol. 18 No.4, Legon, September 2015: 7-26
  3. ‘Transforming Christian Education in Africa – Some Pertinent Reflections’ in Trinity Journal of Church and Theology Vol.19 No.2 , Legon, November 2017: 78-86
  4. ‘Cultural Identity and the Urban Mission  of the Church’ in The Bible, Cultural Identity and the Church. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2014
  5. Entrusted With the Word – A History of the Bible Society of Ghana 1965-2015 Accra: Heritage Publications, 2015

Curricular Information

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Researcher(s) information

Name: David Nii Anum
Surname: KPOBI
Position at the institution: Director of Graduate Studies
Email address: dnakpobi@gmail.com

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