Dr. Lewis Abedi Asante
Designation
Head of Department
Staff Grade
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Estate Management
Faculty
Faculty of Built and Natural Environment
Website
Email

Profile Menu

Lewis Abedi Asante is a Senior Lecturer in Housing and Urban Development at the Department of Estate Management. He holds a BSc in Land Economy, MSc in Urbanisation and Development and PhD in Geography from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science and Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin respectively.

He is currently the Examination Officer at the Faculty of Built and Natural Environment. He has published extensively in the areas in rental housing, urban governance, market redevelopment, urban politics, and urban regeneration. His works have appeared in reputable journals such as Housing Studies, Urban Geography, Geoforum, African Geographical Review and Journal of Housing and Built Environment among others.

  • PhD Geography, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 2016 - 2020
  • MSc Urbanisation and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010 – 2011
  • BSc Land Economy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2004 - 2008

Member, Ghana Institution of Surveyors

Housing, urban governance, urban regeneration, urban politics, and political economy

EST 315 Real Estate Development

EST 323 Research Methods

ESM 109 Introduction to Valuation

National & International Appointments (Service to the Community and Nation)

June 2022 to date, Associate Editor, Heliyon Society and Politics Journal, Elsevier/Cell Press

November 2022 to date, New Programme Assessor, Ghana Tertiary Education Commission

 

 

 

Consultancy works:

  1. November 2021 to May 2022, Role of Land and Housing Consultant at the World Bank, Reviewed experiences and identify potential solutions for Ghana’s urban land challenges in the context of affordable housing
  2. February to October, 2011, Role of Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Authored a 230-page annotated bibliography on urban politics and political economy in African cities  
  • 19th Annual Conference of the African Real Estate Society, Arusha, Tanzania, 10 – 13 Sept, 2019
  • 18th Annual Conference of the African Real Estate Society, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 10 – 14 Sept 2018
  • 17th Annual Conference of the African Real Estate Society, Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 – 15 Sept 2017
  • 24th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society, Delft, the Netherland, 28 June – 1 July 2017
  • 23rd Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society, Regensburg, Germany, 8 – 11 June, 2016
  • 15th Annual Conference of the African Real Estate Society, Kumasi, Ghana, 2 – 5 Sept 2015

Journal articles

  1. Asante, L.A. and Ehwi, R.J. (2023) Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi, In Lees, L., Slater, T. and Wyly, E. (Eds) The Planetary Gentrification (Chapter 16), Available at: https://www.routledge.com/The-Planetary-Gentrification-Reader/Lees-Slater-Wyly/p/book/9781032376547
  2.  Asante, L.A. (2022) The politics of market redevelopment in African cities: Insights from two market projects in Ghana, Geoforum, Vol. 131, pp. 136 – 150. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718522000616
  3.  Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht, I. (2022) Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana: An analysis of Chinese funding of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast, Urban Geography, Vol. 43(10), pp. 1519 – 1543. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2022.2036525
  4.  Ehwi, R.J., Asante, L.A. and Gavu, E.K. (2022) Towards a well-informed rental housing policy in Ghana: Differentiating between critics and non-critics of the rent advance system in Ghana, IJHMA, Vol. 15(2), pp. 315-338 / Emerald Insight, Available at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJHMA-12-2020-0146/full/html
  5.  Owusu-Ansah, A. and Asante, L.A. (2022) Behavioural finance, property values and housing conversion in urban Ghana, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, Vol. 37(3), pp. 1555 – 1577. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-021-09910-4
  6.  Asante, L.A. and Ehwi, R.J. (2022) Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi, Housing Studies, Vol. 37(4), pp. 578 – 604. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673037.2020.1823331?journalCode=chos20
  7.  Asante, L.A., Ehwi, R.J. and Gavu, E.K. (2022) Advance rent mobilization strategies of graduate renters in Ghana: a submarket of the private rental housing market, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, Vol 37, pp. 1901 – 1921. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10901-021-09926-w 
  8.  Ehwi, R.J., Maslova, S. and Asante, L.A. (2021) Flipping the page: Exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants’ remittances and their living conditions in the UK, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 47(19), pp. 4362-4385. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1945915
  9.  Obiri-Yeboah, A.A., Ribeiro, J.F.X., Asante, L.A., Sarpong, A.A. and Pappoe, B. (2021) The new players in Africa’s transportation sector: Characterisation of auto-rickshaws operators in Kumasi, Ghana, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Vol. 9(1), pp. 324 – 335. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213624X21000092
  10.  Asante, L.A. and Abubakari, Z. (2021) Pursuing PhD by publication in Geography: A collaborative auto-ethnography of two African doctoral researchers, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 45(1), pp. 87-107 / Taylor and Francis Online, Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03098265.2020.1803817
  11. Ehwi, R.J., Asante, L.A. and Morrison, N. (2020) Exploring the financial implication of advance rent and induced furnishing of rental properties in Sub-Saharan African cities: The case of Dansoman, Accra-Ghana, Housing Policy Debate, 30(6), pp. 950 – 971. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2020.1782451
  12. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht, I. (2020) Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana: A case of the Kotokuraba market project in Cape Coast, Geojournal, 85(5), pp. 1203 – 1225. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-019-10018-0
  13. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht, I. (2020) The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa: A case of the Kotokuraba market project, Cape Coast, Ghana, Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(8), pp. 1278 – 1298. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2019.1629819
  14. Asante, L.A. (2020) Urban governance in Ghana: The participation of traders in the redevelopment of Kotokuraba market in Cape Coast, African Geographical Review, Vol. 39(4), pp. 361 – 378. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376812.2020.1726193
  15. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht (2020) Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city: A case of the Kotokuraba market project, Cape Coast, Ghana, Geoforum, Vol. 115, pp. 21 – 33. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718520301755
  16. Asante, L.A. and Mills, R.O. (2020) Exploring the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic in marketplaces in urban Ghana, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 55(2), pp. 170 – 181. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0002039720943612
  17. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht, I. (2020) Conceptualising Marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa: A Sexpartite Framework, Geojournal, Vol. 85(1), pp. 221 – 236, Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-018-9946-4
  18. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht (2019) Changing urban governance: The role of resistance practices and activism in Kumasi, Urban Geography, Vol. 40(10), pp. 1568 – 1595. Available at:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2019.1631109?journalCode=rurb20
  19. Asante, L.A., Gavu, E.K., Quansah, D.P.O. and Osei Tutu, D. (2018) The difficult combination of renting and building a house in urban Ghana: Analysing the perception of low and middle income earners in Accra, Geojournal, 83(6), pp. 1223-1237. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-017-9827-2
  20. Asante, L.A. and Sasu, A. (2018) The challenge of reducing the incidence of building collapse in Ghana: Analyzing the perspectives of building inspectors in Kumasi, SAGE Open, 8(2), pp. 1-12. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018778109
  21. Asante, L.A. and Helbrecht (2018) Seeing through African protest logics: A longitudinal review of continuity and change in protests in Ghana, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 52(2), pp. 159 – 181. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2018.1477607
  22. Asante, L.A., Quansah, D.P.O., Ayitey, J. and Kuusaana, E.D. (2017) The practice of defect liability period in the real estate industry, SAGE Open, 7(3), pp. 1-15. Available at: ttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244017727038
  23. Ehwi, R.J. and Asante, L.A. (2016) Ex-Post Analysis of Land Title Registration in Ghana since 2008 Merger: Accra Lands Commission in Perspective, SAGE Open, 6(2), pp. 1-17. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244016643351

 

Working Paper

  1. Collord, M., Goodfellow, T. and Asante, L.A. (2021) Uneven development, politics, and governance in urban Africa: An analytical literature review, African Cities Research Consortium, University of Manchester, Manchester, England. Available at: https://www.african-cities.org/publications/working-paper-2/
  2. Asante, L.A. (2021) Annotated bibliography on urban politics and political economy in African cities, African Cities Research Consortium, University of Manchester, Manchester, England. Available at: https://www.african-cities.org/publications/working-paper-3/

 

Policy Brief

  1. Asante, L. A. and Ehwi, R. J. (2022) Housing and adherence to COVID-19 health and safety protocols in Ghana: Lessons from Kumasi, Cambridge Africa, Available at: https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/assets/Managed/SlideshowSlideFiles/Policy-Brief-on-Adherence-to-COVID-Protocols-in-Kumasi.pdf
  2. Asante, L.A., Doamekpor, N.A.A, Kidido, J., Asante, P.Y., Abbas, J., Senkpiel, R., Yeboah, M.O. and Fuller, H. (2022) Pandemic resilience in marketplaces, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Available at: https://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/de/abteilungen/kultursozialgeographie/forschung/forschungsprojekte/open-markets-in-ghana-and-covid-19-interventions/policy-brief_marketscovidghana.pdf

  

Grants

  1. August 2021 to July 2022, Research project conducted with Dr Henning Fuller, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Open markets in Ghana and COVID-19 interventions: Competing strategies of infection control and lessons for relation urban health, Funded by German Research Foundation, Valued €50,620, Available at: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/468356683?fbclid=IwAR08X6KrIjDPUNSfZCuf-Y3unWOs3Yyi9KpuOHYD80y5pVRkAPVA85yuatk&language=en
  2. November, 2021 to October 2022, Research project with Dr Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, University of Cambridge, Exploring the impact of housing characteristics and household circumstances on adherence to COVID-19 protocols in Ghana, Funded by Cambridge Africa Alborada Research Fund, Value £5,095, Available at: https://www.cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/the-alborada-research-fund/funded-projects-202122/