Tree Planting, Sustainable Development and the Roles of Law in Bongo, North-East Ghana

Abstract

<jats:p>Development in all its forms is a pervasive theme in the study of modern Africa. The meaning, objectives and methods of development are issues which have entered into every discipline concerned with the study of that continent. The study of law is no exception. Broadly speaking there are three “paradigms of law” which have special relevance to debates on African development. These can be characterized as the instrumental model, the pluralist model and the customary law model.</jats:p>