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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
The presidential special initiative on cassava: A bane or blessing to Ghana's smallholder farmers
S Tonah
2006 Ghana Journal of Development Studies 3 (1), 66-84, 2006 Social Sciences 21
Diviners, malams, god, and the contest for paramount chiefship in Mamprugu (Northern Ghana)
S Tonah
2006 Anthropos, 21-35, 2006 Social Sciences 18
Fulani pastoral migration, sedentary farmers and conflict in the middle belt of Ghana
S Tonah
2001 National Conference on Livelihood and Migration, ISSER, University of Ghana …, 2001 Social Sciences 18
The challenge of ageing in rural and urban Ghana
S Tonah
2009 Contemporary Social Problems in Ghana, 125-146, 2009 Social Sciences 15
Risking it all: Irregular migration from Ghana through Libya to Europe and its impact on the left-behind family members
S Tonah, E Codjoe
2020 Global Processes of Flight and Migration 25, 2020 Social Sciences 13
Fulani in Ghana
S Tonah
2005 Migration History, Integration and Resistance. The Research and Publication …, 2005 Social Sciences 13
The unholy alliance between chiefs and Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Volta Basin
S Tonah
2005 Ghana Social Science Journal 23 (12), 71-93, 2005 Social Sciences 13
Marriage and family in contemporary Ghana: New perspectives
S Tonah
2022 Woeli Publishing Services, 2022 Social Sciences 10
The challenge of Fulani pastoralism in Ghana
S Tonah
2006 Legon Journal of International Affairs 3 (1), 75-98, 2006 Social Sciences 10
Conflicts and Consensus between migrant Fulani herdsmen and Mamprusi farmers in northern Ghana
S Tonah
2003 Ghana's North: research on culture, religion and politics of societies in …, 2003 Social Sciences 10
Contemporary social problems in Ghana
S Tonah
2009 Social Sciences 8
Defying the Nayiri: traditional authority, people's power and the politics of chieftaincy succession in Mamprugu-Northern Ghana
S Tonah
2004 Legon Journal of Sociology 1 (1), 42-58, 2004 Social Sciences 7
Agricultural extension services and smallholder farmers' indebtedness in Northeastern Ghana
S Tonah
1994 journal of Asian and African Studies 29 (1-2), 119-128, 1994 Agriculture 7
Pastoral Fulani Livelihood in Contemporary Ghana
S Tonah
2022 Research and Publication Unit, Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, 2022 Social Sciences 6
Widowhood rites in Ghana: A study among the Nchumuru, Kasena and the Ga
J Brukum, A Pwamang, S Tonah
2009 Contemporary social problems in Ghana, 147-170, 2009 Social Sciences 6
Integration Between Excessive Demands and the Desire to Belong: Young Refugees' Biographical Accounts of Integration
P Rieker, R Mörgen
2023 Universitätsverlag Göttingen 10, 123-143, 2023 Social Sciences 5
The development of sociology and anthropology in Ghana and future trends
A Darkwah, S Tonah, M Assimeng
2014 Changing perspectives on the social sciences in Ghana, 95-112, 2014 Social Sciences 5
Fulbe pastoralists and the changing property relations in northern Ghana
S Tonah
2012 Who owns the stock? Collective and multiple forms of property in animals …, 2012 Social Sciences 5
Changing characteristics and factors of chieftaincy succession and land disputes in Ghana
S Tonah
2011 Chieftaincy Bulletin 1 (2), 40-53, 2011 Social Sciences 5
Managing farmer-herder conflicts in the middle Volta Basin of Ghana
S Tonah
2007 Ethnicity, conflicts and consensus in Ghana, 240-260, 2007 Social Sciences 5
Ghanaians Abroad and their Ties Home: Cultural and Religious Dimensions of Transnational Migration
T Steve
2007 Transnationalisation and Development (s): Towards a North-South Perspective, 2007 Social Sciences 4
Ethnicity, identity and citizenship of recent migrant groups in Ghana
S Tonah
2022 Dynamics of identification and conflict: Anthropological encounters, 85, 2022 Social Sciences 3
“I Want to Go Gently” How AIDS Patients in Ghana Envisage Their Deaths
FNA Ohemeng, S Tonah
2017 OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying 75 (4), 395-410, 2017 Social Sciences 3
Sociology and development issues in Ghana: a reader in sociology
DBS Dzorgbo, S Tonah
2014 Social Sciences 3
Resolving Chieftaincy Succession Conflicts in Ghana: Lessons from the Wungu Province of Mamprugu
S Tonah
2007 Ethnicity, Conflicts and Consensus in Ghana. Accra: Woeli Publishing …, 2007 Social Sciences 3