Piet Konings 
The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana [PDF ebook] 
A Comparative Analysis

First published in 1986. Africanists are nowadays devoting increasing attention to the role of the state – both colonial and post-colonial – in the process of class formation in African societies. The present study of the role of the state in the process of rural class formation in Ghana can be viewed as both an expression of the current interest in, and an addition to the growing body of literature on, this subject.