Ghana Historiography

I've lately been working on a piece that's a bit of a departure for me, an article assessing three recent surveys of Ghanaian history.  All three books have been published in Ghana since 2000.  Scholars have commonly made a pair of criticisms of post-independence African histories: 1) That they tend to be celebratory and non-critical of powerful African nations and leaders, before and after European contact; 2) That they tend to mimic traditional European histories in focusing on political history, narrowly defined.  The three books I've analyzed are guilty of the second charge but not the first.  All three books approach Ghana's history critically and address shortcomings of or resistance to Asante (the powerful empire) and Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana's most celebrated founding father).  But all three books define Ghana's history, particularly after European contact, in relatively narrow, political terms.  This neglect of social and cultural history can be attributed to habit, particularly since at least two of the books are intended for high school students who follow a prescribed syllabus, a history of Ghana in which the main subjects have already been established.