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steve tonah

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor of Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
migrationpastoralismconflictchieftaincy
Publications

94

Citations

1,797

H-index

23

i10-index

35

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
19.1
Most cited paper
171
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 10:22
Publications

94 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Managing farmer-herder conflicts in Ghana’s Volta Basin
S Tonah
2006 Ibadan journal of social sciences 4 (1), 33-45, 2006 Social Sciences 171
Migration and farmer-herder conflicts in Ghana’s Volta Basin
S Tonah
2006 Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines …, 2006 Social Sciences 167
The politicisation of a chieftaincy conflict: The case of Dagbon, Northern Ghana
S Tonah
2012 Nordic Journal of African Studies 21 (1), 20-20, 2012 Social Sciences 148
Fulani pastoralists, indigenous farmers and the contest for land in Northern Ghana
S Tonah
2002 Africa Spectrum, 43-59, 2002 Social Sciences 136
State policies, local prejudices and cattle rustling along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border
S Tonah
2000 Africa 70 (4), 551-567, 2000 Social Sciences 96
Fulani in Ghana: Migration history, integration and resistance
S Tonah
2005 Research and Publication Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, 2005 Social Sciences 94
Return migrants and the challenge of reintegration: The case of returnees to Kumasi, Ghana
MB Setrana, S Tonah
2014 A Journal of African Migration 7 (Jun), 113-142, 2014 Social Sciences 80
Ethnicity, conflicts, and consensus in Ghana
S Tonah
2007 Social Sciences 74
Integration or exclusion of Fulbe pastoralists in West Africa: a comparative analysis of interethnic relations, state and local policies in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
S Tonah
2003 The Journal of Modern African Studies 41 (1), 91-114, 2003 Social Sciences 72
Ghanaians abroad and their ties home: Cultural and religious dimensions of transnational migration
S Tonah
2007 DEU 25, 23, 2007 Social Sciences 66
Do transnational links matter after return? Labour market participation among Ghanaian return migrants
MB Setrana, S Tonah
2016 The Journal of Development Studies 52 (4), 549-560, 2016 Social Sciences 45
The uneding cycle of education reforms in Ghana
S Tonah
2009 Journal of Education Research in Africa 1, 45-52, 2009 Social Sciences 41
Coping with urban poverty in Ghana: An analysis of household and individual livelihood strategies in Nima/Accra
S Essamuah, Margaret & Tonah
2004 Legon Journal of Sociology 1 (2), 79-96, 2004 Social Sciences 39
Theoretical and comparative perspectives on ethnicity, conflicts and consensus in Ghana
S Tonah
2007 Ethnicity, conflict and consensus in Ghana, 3-24, 2007 Social Sciences 36
The politics of exclusion: the expulsion of Fulbe pastoralists from Ghana in 1999/2000
S Tonah
2002 Social Sciences 35
Farmer–herder conflict in Volta region of Ghana
S Tonah
2006 Journal of social sciences 2 (1), 6-10, 2006 Social Sciences 32
The development of agropastoral households in Northern Ghana
S Tonah
1993 Bielefelder Studien zur Entwicklungssoziologie, 1993 Social Sciences 32
The development of agropastoral households in Northern Ghana: policy analysis, project appraisal, and future perspectives
S Tonah
1993 (No Title), 1993 Social Sciences 29
Chieftaincy succession disputes and the challenge to traditional authority in Mamprugu, Northern Ghana
S Tonah
2005 Institute of African Studies Research Review 21 (1), 45-57, 2005 Social Sciences 28
Chiefs, earth priests and the state: Irrigation agriculture, competing institutions and the transformation of land tenure arrangements in Northeastern Ghana
S Tonah
2008 Land and Custom in Ghana 113, 2008 Agriculture 26
Migrant Fulani herdsmen, indigenous farmers and the contest for land in Northern Ghana
S Tonah
2002 African Studies Association in Germany (VAD), 2002 Social Sciences 26
Chieftaincy succession dispute in N anun, N orthem Ghana: Interrogating the narratives of the contestants
AS Anamzoya
2012 Ghana Journal of Geography 4, 83-I 02, 2012 Social Sciences 25
Managing chieftaincy and ethnic conflicts in Ghana
AS Anamzoya, S Tonah
2016 Accra: Woeli Publishing Services, 2016 Social Sciences 24
Democratization and the resurgence of ethnic politics in gha-na, 1992-2006
S Tonah
2009 Ethnicity, belonging and biography: ethnographical and biographical …, 2009 Social Sciences 21
Migration, resource use, conflicts and stakeholders in the middle Volta Basin
S Tonah
2007 New developments of health, agricultural resources and socio-economic …, 2007 Social Sciences 21