Analysis of Civil-Military Relations of Ghana from 1957 to 2022

Abstract

The Constitutional basis of the Civil-Military Relations pertaining to Ghana emerged out of its history with military interventions. Given the narrative of Ghana’s civil-military relations and those of some of the nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, it may be appropriate not to attribute the constitutional approach underlying the civil-military design in Ghana to the “Concordance” or “Separation” model. Those models probably provide realistic civil-military approaches for Western industrialized nations with huge standing armies, militias, and good governance systems. Perhaps the “Constitutional” model may be considered as the primary denominator for analysis of the legal framework on Civil-Military Relations in Ghana and in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite the occasional similarities in “Separation” or “Concordance” theory in those nations.