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Fayemi, Ademola Kazeem. "African Sartorial Culture and the Question of Identity: Towards an African Philosophy of Dress." Uchenie zapiski Instituta Afriki RAN, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.31132/2412-5717-2021-55-2-66-79.

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This paper is a critical interrogation of the apparel culture as a marker of African identity in traditional and contemporary Africa. The article philosophically discusses the sartorial culture of sub-Saharan Africans in the light of its defining elements, identity, and non-verbal communicative proclivities. Focusing on the Yoruba and the Ashanti people, the author argues that African dress expresses some symbolic, linguistic, and sometimes hidden, complex and immanent meaning(s) requiring extensive interpretations and meaning construction. With illustrative examples, he defends the position that the identity of some cultural regions in Africa can be grouped together based on the original, specific techniques and essence of dress that they commonly share. Against the present absence of an African philosophy of dress in the African sartorial culture and knowledge production, he argues the imperativeness of an African philosophy of dress, its subject matter, and connections to other cognate branches of African philosophy, and the prospects of such an ancillary African philosophy.
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Dwumah, Peter, Kofi Osei Akuoko, and Eric Henry Yeboah. "Family Networks’ Support to Employment Paths of Rural Youth in a Ghanaian Community." International Journal of Social Science Studies 6, no. 2 (January 5, 2018): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v6i2.2577.

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The study examined family networks’ support to rural young people’s past and present employment as well as their employment aspirations since research on these issues especially in African and Ghanaian context is rare. The research analysed whether or not rural youth expect and receive employment support from their family networks. Mixed method approach for collection and analysis of data from young people in Amankyea a rural community in the Atwima Nwabiagya district of Ashanti region in Ghana was used. Three (3) focus group discussions and interviews of 20 young people who were purposively selected were conducted. Questionnaires were also administered to 270 randomly selected young people in the rural community. Social capital theory was used as theoretical framework for the study. It was found that majority of the rural youth did not expect, and receive employment support from their family networks. Though rural youth did not expect support from their family networks generally, female rural youth expected and received support from their male partners. The study recommends the need to encourage family networks through workshops and seminars to prioritize employment support to rural young people to reduce reliance on government of Ghana.
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Sipyinyu, Njeng Eric. "Audre Lorde and the Archetypal Back to Africa Movement." International Journal of Culture and Religious Studies 4, no. 3 (December 12, 2023): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ijcrs.1571.

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Purpose: This paper examines how Audre Lorde, one of the most prominent black woman poets of the 21st century, is concerned about the horrors of racism and attempts to erode it through her poetry. As a black, she is excluded from the dominant white society. As a black woman, she is "other" in a patriarchal culture. Methodology: The paper employs the Myth and Archetypal Approach propounded by Carl Jung, Northrop Frye, and Mircea Eliade to examine how Lorde seeks to create a community among blacks using African archetypes. In this regard, Lorde uses a pantheon of mythological and legendary archetypes from the ancient Kingdoms of Dahomey, Ashanti, and Benin to create self-esteem and unity in her people. These archetypes can serve as sources of intellectual enlightenment and models for ritual and cultural behavior. Findings: Lorde sees mythical archetypes as an authentic form of ancestral worship more accommodating than the Christian culture of the West. Such archetypes allow blacks to understand identifiers that contravene Western culture's xenophobia and create unity among blacks across the world. She invokes primordial history to show that blackness and femaleness are not "other" but affirming qualities. Recognizing that blacks had assumed the polarised dialectics of Western culture, Lorde tries to reconnect them to their lost spiritual cord. The archetypes she invokes would appeal to blacks because archetypes are innate. Unique contributor to theory, policy and practice: Thus, by invoking African mythic archetypes, she brings the black community into contact with their lost spiritual history. The paper ends with the caveat that the Back to Africa movement, which has seen a boost in momentum in the last two decades, is a result of the work of poets like Lorde, who, through their poetry, triggered the search for the lost link between blacks in the diaspora and the African continent.
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Skinner, Kate. "‘It Brought Some Kind of Neatness to Mankind’: Mass Literacy, Community Development and Democracy in 1950s Asante." Africa 79, no. 4 (November 2009): 479–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e000197200900103x.

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This article is concerned with mass education in late colonial Ghana. The first part examines how people in the Ashanti Region interpreted and responded to a policy that was conceived in the period of power sharing between an African nationalist legislative assembly and a civil service that was still dominated by British expatriates. Literacy campaigns and related community development activities were shaped by the expectations and ideals of the Asantes who participated as learners, tutors, volunteer leaders and salaried employees. Mass education was popular partly because new skills, techniques and materials could be used to pursue older ideals about enlightenment, progress, cleanliness and good character. Government policy indicated that literacy campaigns and community development activities would help to build democracy from the grassroots, yet, in spite of its popularity, mass education remained beyond the control of elected local government. The later part of this article focuses on the small town of Kwaso in order to establish why this was so and what one local resident was able to do about it.
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Piot, Charles. "Of Slaves and the Gift: Kabre Sale of Kin During the Era of the Slave Trade." Journal of African History 37, no. 1 (March 1996): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700034782.

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While numerous reports in the ethnographic and historical literature on West African societies document the sale of kin into slavery during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, theorists of the trade have not dealt with the logic of selling close relatives. This article examines an instance of such sale among a Voltaic people, the Kabre, located in the hinterland of Dahomey and Ashanti, and attempts to theorize its meaning as a way of maneuvering between complementing sets of values, both human and material, that emerge at the intersection of the local Kabre ‘gift’ economy with the larger regional political economy of slaving. The essay thus examines Kabre prestational forms – and the complex conceptions of value, wealth, alienation and personhood that accompany them – and the ways in which they interacted with the currencies and slaving practices, and the distinctive forms of alienation these entailed, that entered the area during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Understanding such local forms and practices, however, requires us to depart from neoclassical modes of analysis like those typically employed by economic historians of the slave trade.
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Adam, Konadu, Margaret Makafui Tayviah, and Obeng-Asare Bismark. "The Impact of Religious Diversity on Socio-Ethical Behaviour: Case Study of the Kotei Community in Ghana." Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences 22, no. 4 (April 10, 2024): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/arjass/2024/v22i4526.

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The influence of religious diversity on the socio-ethical behaviour of the Ghanaian society is the subject of the research. The study aims at exploring how Ghana’s religious variety has impacted the socio-ethical behaviour of the people in Ghana with a particular reference to the people in the Kotei community in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The study highlights the fact that the Ghanaian people’s way of life is defined and informed by their respect and tolerance of the religious other. Thus, recognition and tolerance for different religions is be found in nearly every area of the people’s lives. There are three main religious groups situated in the Kotei Community: African Indigenous adherents, Muslims and Christians. These religious groups are pluralistic with several divisions and denominations. This study therefore explores how the prevalence of several religions have affected the people’s way of life. It also discusses how religious tolerance and cooperation among the various religious groups in the area has gotten positive and negative effects on the people. The study does so using primary data derived from fieldwork in the said community and secondary data from the intern, published and unpublished literature in the form of books, newspapers and journal articles. The researchers adopted the qualitative method of research for the study. It is the expectation of the researchers that, after reading this material, readers will get to have an overview of the nature of religious diversity evidenced in Ghana and its effects on the socio-ethical behaviour of Ghanaians. The study will serve as precedence for future research on the nature of Interfaith relations and encounters in Africa especially in Ghana and the resourceful means of ensuring interreligious peace and harmonization in Ghana.
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Boateng, Ernest, and Dr Emmanuel Kumah. "ASSESSING THE RATE OF ANTIRETRO VIRAL THERAPY ADHERENCE AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS IN THE ATWIMA NWABIAGYA MUNICIPAL - ASHANTI REGION." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Research 7, no. 7 (October 10, 2021): 428–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.53075/ijmsirq3356760.

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At the end of 2018, HIV remains a significant worldwide medical problem and has claimed over 32 million lives. Around 37.9 million individuals were living with the condition at the end of 2018. The pervasiveness of HIV among African adults (15–49 years) was 3–multiple times higher in 2018. When properly followed, ART has been shown to slow the progression of HIV and enable HIV-positive people to live longer, more productive lives. A treatment regimen of at least three antiretroviral (ARV) medications is typically used. Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is insufficient. Therefore, the study aimed to assess the ART adherence among PLHIV in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality to suggest efficient and effective strategies to maximize adherence. A cross-sectional study was employed using quantitative methods to assess the associations between ART adherence and socio-demographic and socioeconomic factors. The site for this study was the ART Clinic at Nkawie Government Hospital, with a study population of all AIDS patients at the ART Clinic. The 450 PLHIV sample included females (n = 323, or 71.8%), while the males were 127 (28.2). Of the 450 participants, 215 (47.8%) reported adherence of 95%. The mean adherence index was 91.3%. Again, the study showed that those who took a single (137; 30.4%) ART dose was more comfortable than those who took multiple doses (313; 69.6%). Discomfort with the ART regimen, financial restrictions, forgetting to take medicine, lack of family support, social stigma, and antiretroviral therapy side effects were all major barriers to adherence in this study. Adherence, as stated by the participants, appeared to be below. Non-adherence is linked to both medical and behavioural factors, such as pausing ART or feeling ART discomfort. Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality, adherence to antiretroviral therapy is low. Before starting antiretroviral treatment, all patients can receive intensive adherence counselling.
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Adjei, David N., Karien Stronks, Dwomoa Adu, Erik Beune, Karlijn Meeks, Liam Smeeth, Juliet Addo, et al. "Cross-sectional study of association between socioeconomic indicators and chronic kidney disease in rural–urban Ghana: the RODAM study." BMJ Open 9, no. 5 (May 2019): e022610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022610.

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ObjectivesStudies from high-income countries suggest higher prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among individuals in low socioeconomic groups. However, some studies from low/middle-income countries show the reverse pattern among those in high socioeconomic groups. It is unknown which pattern applies to individuals living in rural and urban Ghana. We assessed the association between socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and CKD in rural and urban Ghana and to what extent the higher SES of people in urban areas of Ghana could account for differences in CKD between rural and urban populations.SettingThe study was conducted in Ghana (Ashanti region). We used baseline data from a multicentre Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants (RODAM) study.ParticipantsThe sample consisted of 2492 adults (Rural Ghana, 1043, Urban Ghana, 1449) aged 25–70 years living in Ghana.ExposureEducational level, occupational level and wealth index.OutcomeThree CKD outcomes were considered using the 2012 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes severity of CKD classification: albuminuria, reduced glomerular filtration rate and high to very high CKD risk based on the combination of these two.ResultsAll three SES indicators were not associated with CKD in both rural and urban Ghana after age and sex adjustment except for rural Ghana where high wealth index was significantly associated with higher odds of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (adjusted OR, 2.38; 95% CI 1.03 to 5.47). The higher rate of CKD observed in urban Ghana was not explained by the higher SES of that population.ConclusionSES indicators were not associated with prevalence of CKD except for wealth index and reduced eGFR in rural Ghana. Consequently, the higher SES of urban Ghana did not account for the increased rate of CKD among urban dwellers suggesting the need to identify other factors that may be driving this.
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McCaskie, T. C. "People and animals: constru(ct)ing the Asante experience." Africa 62, no. 2 (April 1992): 221–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160456.

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AbstractThe Asante (Ashanti) are a forest-dwelling people of West Africa, now located in the Republic of Ghana. This article deals with the Asante perception of forest animals within a broad cultural and historical context. Such animals were ubiquitous in Asante life and thought, and the article offers an analysis of the readings—phenomenological and ontological—placed upon them. The article also explores the ways in which the constructions placed upon animals were linked to Asante understandings of selfhood and the person, and to readings of myth and history.
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Sinitsina, Irina. "African Legal Tradition J. M. Sarbah, J. B. Danquah, N. A. Ollennu." Journal of African Law 31, no. 1-2 (1987): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300009232.

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The Systematic study of African customary law and of the establishment of its role in the legal systems of African states was initiated, above all, by works of A. N. Allott. The scholar gives unflagging attention to the local legal schools which laid a serious basis for the present-day comparative study both of customary law and of national legal systems, for clarifying the possible ways of their development, and for a search for optimal legal forms which would take due account of the interests of small ethnic groups. The formation of national legal systems of African states has aroused a major interest in the customary law of ethnic groups. A. N. Allott correctly observed that it was necessary to pay heed, in particular, to the historical aspect of customary law.The most vivid example of the high level of development of autochthonous legal institutions and of their study by local legal scholars is furnished by the legal school of the ethnolinguistic group known as Akan (the Gold Coast, later Ghana).Present day Ghana in the pre-colonial period formed the states of the Akan peoples—Fanti and Ashanti—and of the inhabitants of the Birim-Volta river region—Akim and Akuapem. Screened by a tropical forest from the north and facing the Gulf of Guinea, the region remained isolated from external influences for many long epochs, creating specific systems of state law. The types and forms of their customary law mechanism characterize the level of development and specific features of appropriate societies.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ashanti (African people)"

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Amoateng-Boahen, Gabriel. "Integral pastoral care in Ghana proposals for healing in the Asante context /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Adei, Stephen. "African traditional marriage and biblical patterns : the case of the Ashantis of Ghana." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1029.

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This dissertation compares the family and marriage traditions of the Ashantis of Ghana and Ancient Hebrews. Some common features characterize the two societies, principal among which is the idea that having children is the key purpose of marrieage above love and intimacy. Others are the low status of the wife in the domestic context; endogamy rules based on consanguinity; and payment of bride price. However, the two traditions differ in important areas. For example, the Ashantis follow kinship system based on matrilineal descent, succession and inheritance and the girl child is preferred. The patriarchal system of the Ancient Hebrews invest all authority in the father and the male heirs is preferred. Other defining factor in Ashanti and Pentateuchcal marriage is their religion and belief systems. Much of the marriage traditions seem to be cultural references rather than religious imperatives binding on Christians today.
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Books on the topic "Ashanti (African people)"

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Hutchison, Kwesi. Folktales from Ashanti. Kumasi, Ghana: S. Hutchison, 1994.

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Obeng, Ernest E. Ancient Ashanti chieftaincy. Tema, Ghana: Ghana Pub. Corp., 1988.

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Lake, Mary Dixon. The royal drum: An Ashanti tale. Greenvale, NY: Mondo, 1996.

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Lake, Mary Dixon. The royal drum: An Ashanti tale. Greenvale, NY: Mondo, 1996.

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Edgerton, Robert B. The fall of the Asante Empire: The hundred-year war for Africa's Gold Coast. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

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Edgerton, Robert B. The fall of the Asanti empire: The hundred-year warfor Africa's gold coast. New York: Free Press, 1995.

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Khan, Benjamin. How people got wisdom: An Ashanti tale. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

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Fofie, Akosua Gyamfuaa. The agony of an African woman. Accra [Ghana]: Beginners Publishers, 1996.

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Fofie, Akosua Gyamfuaa. The agony of an African woman. Cantonments, Accra: Beginners Publishers, 1996.

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Ware, Otumfuo Opoku. Otumfuo Opoku Ware Jubilee Foundation 10th anniversary public lectures. Kumasi [Ghana]: Otumfuo Opoku Ware Jubilee Foundation, 2005.

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Irish, Joel D. "Knocking, Filing, and Chipping." In A World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054834.003.0003.

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The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, an overview of intentional dental modification among sub-Saharan Africans is provided, with a focus on biological cause and effect. Methods for removal and alteration are described alongside their short- and long-term effects. Oral trauma was not uncommon, ranging from mild to life threatening. Yet continuation of the practice indicates that the intended results outweighed any risks, including perceived and plausible benefits to individual reproductive fitness (e.g., Kikuyu and Batonga), internecine competition (Ashanti, San), and prevention (Acholi) or treatment of disease (Masai). The second goal is to document the proliferation of modification types emanating from western Africa. Intrusive “Bantu” migrants, who began (4,000–3,000 BP) a gradual, subcontinent-wide expansion from this region, brought their own specific methods. These styles, which can be tracked, came to influence and replace the practices of indigenous peoples.
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"Chapter 1." In ʻHistory of Ashantiʼ by Otumfuo, Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, edited by T. C. McCaskie, 67–82. British Academy, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267028.003.0002.

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Describes origins of the Akan people including the Asante; reviews a variety of European and local theories and traditions. Origins; migrations; connections with other parts of Africa and further afield.
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Parker, John. "Reordering the Royal Dead." In In My Time of Dying, 291–307. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691193151.003.0019.

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This chapter narrates Agyeman Prempeh's return to Asante in 1924 from exile in the Seychelles. It unfolds how he had changed in the course of his 28 years in detention and repatriated as a private citizen, Mr Edward Prempeh. Two years later, having cemented a reputation among British officials as a progressive figure, he was appointed 'Kumasihene', head of the reconstituted Kumasi division of colonial Ashanti. That said, in his own mind and in those of his people, Agyeman Prempeh remained Asantehene. Despite his embrace of Anglicanism and colonial modernity, Prempeh was acutely conscious of this historical role and worked assiduously until his death to heal the wounds of the past and to ensure a reinvigorated future by attending to the dignity of the royal dead. The chapter examines his project, which took the form of three interconnected campaigns: to reorder the dominion of the dead in Kumasi; to rebuild the destroyed mausoleum at Bantama; and to repatriate the remains of those who died in the Seychelles and elsewhere. Together, they constitute a key episode in the political life of dead bodies in colonial West Africa.
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Barnes, Ebenezer, and Alex Somuah Obeng. "Challenges Facing Mediation as a Means of Court-Connected Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Ashanti Region of Ghana." In Advancing Civil Justice Reform and Conflict Resolution in Africa and Asia, 190–209. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7898-8.ch011.

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In 2012-2016, the number of cases referred to CCADR for mediation was 14,900. And out of these cases, 5,789 were successfully resolved to represent 38%. The total number of mediated cases pending were 9,111, representing 62%. Though there seems to be an improvement in terms of a decrease in pending cases, the number of pending cases leaves much to be desired. Premising on the above statistics, it has been noted that 9,111 ADR cases were pending in CCADR. Meanwhile, mediation under the CCADR program is known to be faster, affordable, and to reduce the overloaded courts' dockets. This has boosted the interest, trust, and confidence people had in mediation, and this has resulted in the increasing number of cases referred to ADR for mediation. However, the system, which was instituted to reduce overloaded courts' dockets, is bedeviled with challenges. The study seeks to explore the challenges confronting mediation as a means of ADR approach.
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