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Agyepong, Stephen. "A monetary history of Ghana." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53114.
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The main purpose of the study was to trace the monetary history of Ghana, providing an overall view of how the various monetary regimes in Ghana's history affected the method(s) adopted to finance government budget deficits. The impact of the budget deficits on the money supply process and prices was also analyzed.
The study begins with an overview of the various definitions of deficit financing. A brief account of the monetary developments leading to the establishment of the West Africa currency Board in 1912 was given. The study then goes on to show how currency was acquired during the existence of the Currency Board (that is, 1912-57) This led to a discussion of how the Ghana Government financed its budget deficits during this period. The role of the Bank of Ghana in the monetary development after independence was discussed. The persistent Government budget deficits after independence and its effect on the money supply and prices was also discussed. It was found that there is a close connection between changes in the stock of money and changes in prices, and that in Ghana inflation has essentially been a monetary phenomenon.
The study concludes with the results of its findings and, their implications for public policy and, topics for further research. A guide to the history of Ghana's currency is provided in appendix A. Appendix B is notes on data used in the study.Master of Arts
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Boachie-Ansah, J. "An archaeological contribution to the history of Wenchi /." Calgary : University of Calgary, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356925809.
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Lord, Jack. "The history of childhood in colonial Ghana, c.1900-57." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/22810/.
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Children in colonial Ghana lived through a unique kind of childhood, very different from anything observed in either pre-colonial Africa or the metropole. In pre-colonial Ghana, despite the importance for adults of child-bearing, children had a low social status, with few rights to balance their onerous obligations to their elders. But the relationship between children and adult society was - at least in theory - redefined by the colonial presence. Colonial modernity was increasingly perceived to be placing children in moral and physical danger. There was a greater imperative for childhoods to incorporate play and education and for the colonial state to safeguard adult society by protecting the welfare of individual children and reforming the delinquent young. The remainder of the thesis focuses on how these shifts were experienced by children themselves. The second part of the thesis examines the intellectual and emotional history of children. Children understood the colonial world very differently from adults. Children began to fear recognisably colonial institutions and authority figures but also to associate comfort and security with metropolitan material culture. Children had a sometimes acute awareness of imperial wealth and power and the relative weakness of the colony. But, simultaneously, children were largely apolitical because of their lack of experience and their intense focus on the present and the self. The final part of the thesis deals with the economics of childhood. Children were a valuable, if vulnerable, part of the colonial workforce. Child labour was used in new ways as economic and technological change created a raft of 'small jobs' for children to undertake. But, in a fundamental reassessment of the social purpose of child labour, the thesis argues that much of the work undertaken by children was 'accumulative' rather than exploitative. It was labour that bridged the gap between economic childhood and adulthood and allowed children to acquire tangible, human and social forms of capital.
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Håkansson, Elias. "Mål och medel i ekonomisk utveckling : Ett institutionellt perspektiv på strukturanpassningar i Ghana." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-453447.
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Terpenning, Steven Tyler Spinner. "Choral Music, Hybridity, and Postcolonial Consciousness in Ghana." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10271023.
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Ghanaian choral music emerged from the colonial experience through a process of musical hybridity and became relevant in the post-independent state of Ghana. This dissertation begins by exploring how two distinct musical forms developed from within the Methodist and Presbyterian missions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These musical forms utilized both European hymn harmony and local musical features. The institutional histories and structures of these missions explain the significance of this hybridity and distinct characteristics of the forms. These local-language choral works spread through these institutions despite the attempts of people in leadership positions to keep local culture separate from Christian schools and churches. The fourth chapter explores the broader social impact of the choral tradition that emerged from the Presbyterian mission, and its implications for the national independence movement through the history of one choral work composed by 1929 by Ephraim Amu. Then, based on a case study of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and its workplace choir, I examine how intellectual leaders such as Kwabena Nketia have, in the context of the post-independent state of Ghana, promoted choral music as an aspect of national development and unity. Ethnographic work at the GBC reveals the sometimes contentious negotiations that are involved in this process. This dissertation is based on both ethnographic and archival research conducted during three research trips to Ghana from 2012 to 2015. This research reveals how Ghanaians have challenged colonial ideology through composing and performing choral music. Peircian semiotics and postcolonial theory provides a framework for exploring how the hybridity of choral music in Ghana has contributed to the development of postcolonial consciousness there.
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Pont, Chafer Maria Jose. "We, the People of the Yam : A History of Crops, Labour and Wealth from the Periphery of Ghana." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0056.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'histoire de la production et des marchés de l'igname au Ghana du 20e siècle à nos jours. Elle explore les changements dans l'économie du Ghana du point de vue des marchés domestiques ainsi que les différences et les similitudes entre ces marchés et les marchés internationaux. L'histoire de l'igname offre de nouvelles perspectives sur l'histoire de l'agriculture de l'Afrique de l'Ouest par rapport à l'arrivée de cultures vivrières provenant d'autres continents et sur l'histoire du travail et des migrations par rapport au plus important développement des cultures commerciales du continent : le cacaoThis thesis addresses the history of yam production and markets in Ghana from the 20th century to the present. It explores the changes in the economy of Ghana from the point of view of domestic markets as well as the differences and similitudes between them and the international markets. The history of yams provides new perspectives on the agricultural history of West Africa in relation to the arrival of food crops from other continents and on the history of labour and migrations in relation to the most important cash-crop revolution of the continent: the development of cocoa
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Couch, David Clarence. "Something is better than nothing the history of Ghana Christian College and Seminary /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.
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Saboro, Emmanuel. "Slavery, memory and orality : analysis of song texts from northern Ghana." Thesis, University of Hull, 2014. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12715.
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This thesis explores memories of slavery and the slave trade among the Bulsa and Kasena of northern Ghana and focuses on late nineteenth century internal slave trafficking. Previous studies on memories of the slave trade in Ghana have focused on the transatlantic slave trade and the trauma of the Middle Passage and have relied on the use of conventional historical methodology such as shipping records, missionary and traveller accounts and the perspectives of colonial officials leaving out the experiences of the descendants of those who were mostly considered as victims. This thesis, by contrasts adopts an interdisciplinary approach and engages with new material from the interior of Africa where most slaves were captured and aims at shifting the focus from the use of conventional historical methodology by seeking to establish the voices of descendants of enslaved communities in northern Ghana through a critical study of their songs. Drawing largely from extensive field work through recording of traditional performances and interviews within these cultures and from a corpus of about 140 with a representative sample of 100 songs, this distinctive body of oral sources aims to contribute to the general body of literature relative to the historiography of slavery and the slave trade in Africa in two significant ways: (1) by the use of the oral tradition and (2) by emphasizing the impact of the emotional and psychological dimension of the slave experience which has often been ignored by historians. A close study of the songs does emphasise the nature of violence that accompanied the enslavement process thereby defeating the prevailing argument that African slavery was benign and less oppressive. The songs also suggest an attempt by these communities who were mostly perceived as victims to rewrite their collective history through songs that celebrate communal valour and triumph over tragedy. The songs also reveal that communities were not just passive victims who acquiesced in the plight of their enslavement, but reflect ways in which communities have also translated what was otherwise a tragic epoch of their history into communal triumph.
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Grimm, Kevin E. "Symbol of Modernity: Ghana, African Americans, and the Eisenhower Administration." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334240469.
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Wassiuw, Abdul Rahaman. "Price change and households' welfare in Ghana (1991-2013)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47400/.
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Given the growing world population and income in emerging economies, increased demand for food and feed crops for the production of bio-fuels, and greater frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters in different parts of the world due to climate change, global food prices are expected to increase. Food importing developing countries are vulnerable to these price increases and associated price volatility as poor households would be the most severely affected. While there are extensive empirical studies on the effect of food price increases and volatility on household welfare in developed and developing countries, little is known about African countries. This thesis contributes to the literature on Africa, specifically Ghana using three waves of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) to measure the effect of food price increases on household welfare between 1991 and 2013 and addressing the effect of price volatility with a measure of households’ willingness to pay for price stability. A number of contributions are made in this thesis. First, an application of both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to the GLSS shows that budget share equations require including a higher expenditure term to appropriately explain consumer behaviour; the non-linear Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System expenditure model is the best fit for the GLSS data. Second, an analysis of the consumption patterns of cereal and cereal products shows variation in consumption patterns across time and different groups of households. For example, bread is considered a necessity while maize was a luxury in 1991/92 and 1998/99 but a necessity in 2012/13, showing a case of where a commodity is a luxury at some point and a necessity at another time. Commodity groups such as root, tubers & plantain, meat, fish and oil & fat products are considered luxuries while bread & cereals are considered necessities. Third, welfare effects calculated for three periods of price changes show there are differences in magnitude for each period, and in all periods a higher proportion of poorer household food expenditure is needed to compensate for observed price increases than for non-poor households. However, within poorer households, we find that rural poor households suffered more from price increases than urban poor households. There are also significant regional differences in welfare effects across periods, with households in the Savannah zone suffering more from observed price changes in all periods. Finally, while the average rural household is a net producer of maize and millet but a net purchaser of rice, rural households are more price risk averse with respect to the price of rice. If substitution between the prices of maize, rice and millet are ignored, 13 per cent of income of the average rural household is required to stabilise prices of all three commodities. However, if substitution is allowed for, the average rural household will be willing to pay 9 per cent of income to stabilise the price of all three commodities at the same time. This suggests that ignoring substitution between prices lead to overestimation of household Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) to stabilise prices of maize, rice and millet in Ghana.
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Yeboah, Eric Henry. "Microfinance in rural Ghana : a view from below." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1189/.
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The thesis investigates, from a contextual and user perspective, the implementation processes of microfinance interventions and the effect of the implementation processes on households and businesses. The thesis’ central argument is that microfinance discourse has neglected the perspective of microfinance users and this can negatively affect microfinance interventions as development tools. The study examines two microfinance interventions, Nsoatreman Women Empowerment Programme and Sinapi Aba Trust, in Nsoatre, a rural community in Ghana. Data for the study is from secondary sources, 26 interviews and 100 questionnaires. The study was guided by the philosophical ideas underlying the Sustainable Livelihood Approach and the Interpretive Approach. Using qualitative, cross-tabulations and ordinal logistic regression, the analysis found that the microfinance institutions studied essentially employ top-down approaches and that the perception of microfinance as non-paternalistic is not supported by this study. The mode of group formation has significant ramifications on subsequent group activities and peer monitoring played a limited role in mitigating moral hazard. Service users exhibited noticeable lack of knowledge on intervention activities. Microfinance interventions contribute to household consumption more than it does to household asset accumulation. Poorer service users reported more household and business benefits. The findings suggest a reappraisal of the design of microfinance interventions, especially in rural areas.
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Osei, Collins. "UK foreign direct investment in Ghana : determinants and implications." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2014. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/7562.
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The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relative significance of the determinants of UK foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ghana. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)'s World Investment Report in 2013, developing countries outperformed developed countries as recipients of FDI, and it is crucial that Ghana competes to increase its share in this positive trend. It is believed that Africa needs to target some countries and even some companies rather than adopt generic strategies if their promotional activities to attract FDI are to be effective. In Ghana's case, one of the priorities to increase its share of FDI and subsequently that of Africa could be to reverse the declining trend of inward FDI from the UK, which was Ghana's leading source of FDI until recently. By applying the OLI paradigm in the context of UK FDI to Ghana, the study provides a template of how FDI from a particular country may be attracted by analysing the determining factors from the perspective of companies already experienced in the market. This study adopted explanatory mixed research method in accordance with the pragmatic research philosophy. This enabled all the 286 contactable UK companies in Ghana to be reached through the survey method. Then based on the initial analysis of 101 usable responses in SPSS, representing 35 per cent response rate, eight sequential interviews were conducted through convenience sampling. The interviews were deductively analysed by manually categorising the responses according to the questions asked, in order to build explanations of the survey findings. Consistent with the OLI paradigm, the research revealed that all the surveyed companies possess ownership advantages such as strong brands, or the potential to develop strong brands, unique products, management and marketing know-how and transferrable experience from similar markets, all of which are crucial for successful investment in Ghana. However, for Ghana to retain UK companies in the country and attract more, favourable locational factors identified in the study need to be provided and nurtured. These include reliable infrastructure, enhanced market size, political stability and continuity, opportunities for agglomeration and a functioning regulatory framework which augment different degrees of internalisation, as the majority of the companies have preference for the wholly owned subsidiary entry mode. The study also found the effect of current tax incentives, formal institutions and informal ties in attracting and retaining FDI was insignificant. This research has made a unique contribution to the understanding of the determinants of FDI in a number of ways. In practice, the sample is unique as it excluded companies operating in traditional natural resources and therefore outside the jurisdiction of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) according to the GIPC Act 478 of 1994. This makes the findings specific and relevant to GIPC and investment promotion agencies in Africa, regarding crucial factors to be highlighted and to abolish practices which do not add value to the country as the preferred investment destination for UK companies. Academically, this study fills a number of gaps in the literature. First, it was unique in examining the variables to be considered in retaining as well as attracting FDI, as the majority of studies on determinants of FDI focus more on attraction and less on retention of existing companies, despite the crucial role existing companies play in agglomeration, urbanisation, brand development and other benefits of FDI. The framework developed from this study may also be adopted or modified for future studies. Methodologically, another contribution is the application of explanatory mixed research methods to empirically study the determinants of FDI in Ghana.
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Ball, Rajiv. "The state and the development of small-scale industry in Ghana since c.1945." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2412/.
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Since c.1945, there has been an 'explosion' of small-scale industrial activity in Ghana. This thesis attempts to explain why this has happened. First, developments in small industries during the colonial period are analyzed. Using new sources of data, it is argued that indigenous industries survived this period and were of significant importance by the end of British rule in 1957. Next, changes in the size and sophistication of these industries in the postcolonial period are quantified. It is estimated that, between 1960 and 1984, the number of workers employed in this sector more than doubled. There was also a clear increase in the small industry sector's sophistication. A significant part of the thesis concerns government policy towards small industries since c.1945. Extensive use is made of newly-released archival material, particularly from the Nkrumah years (1951 to 1966). It is argued that, in general, government policies cannot explain Ghana's small industry expansion: although some governments have championed the cause of small industrialists, their small industry development programmes have been relatively small. Also, some government policies actually have prevented small industry growth. Given that the state cannot be accountable for the 'explosion' of small-scale industrial activity, this thesis considers other possible reasons for this phenomenon. This is done by examining previous studies of the small industry sector and using new material from a survey of 40 small-scale industrialists conducted in 1996. It is argued that Ghana's small-scale industrial 'explosion' can be understood as one of the consequences of Ghana's pattern of economic development until the early 1960s, followed by a period of prolonged and rapid economic collapse during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Osei-Hwere, Enyonam M. "Children's Television in Ghana: History, Policy, Diversity, and Prospects in a Changing Media Environment." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1218685896.
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Asiedu-Acquah, Emmanuel. ""And still the Youth are coming": Youth and popular politics in Ghana, c. 1900-1979." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467195.
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This dissertation explores the significance of the youth in the popular politics of 20th-century Ghana. Based on two and half years of archival and field research in Ghana and Britain, the dissertation investigates the political agency of the youth, especially in the domains of youth associations, student politics, and popular culture. It also examines the structural factors in the colonial and postcolonial periods that shaped youth political engagement, and how youth worked within and without these structural frames to shape popular politics. I argue that youth-centered politics has been a motive force in Ghanaian popular politics. It opened up space for subalterns to be important players in colonial politics especially as catalysts of anti-colonial nationalism. In the post-colonial period, youth politics, mostly in the form of university students’ political activism, articulated public interests and was a bulwark against the authoritarianism of civilian and military governments. The dissertation charts the changing manifestations of Ghanaian youth political identity and formation from the early 1900s, when Britain completed its formal imposition of colonial rule on the territory that is present-day Ghana, to the political crisis of the late 1970s in which students and youth played crucial roles. The dissertation is a corrective to elite-focused accounts of political developments in Ghana’s history. It establishes youths as historically significant players who have shaped the country’s political ideas, values and practices. The dissertation also contributes to the renewed and growing focus on intergenerational relations, generational identity, and youth in scholarship on Africa.History
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Darko, Christian Kweku. "Essays on education and employment in Ghana." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6794/.
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This thesis examines how family background, measured as parents education, and household access to amenities affects children’s school enrolment, and how parents education affects earnings. I also examine how education and family background affects performance of unregistered urban businesses. In the first empirical study, rural educated parents’ effects on biological children’s enrolment were stronger, with educated fathers’ effects positive for boys and girls. Educated mothers helped boys, perhaps indicating more “traditional” values among women. Urban educated parents’ effects were weaker, which is plausible, given the weaker influence of “traditional” values. For non-biological urban children, educated mothers effect were adverse, suggesting that children fulfil a servant-type role to facilitate the educated mother’s market work. Poor access to amenities reduces enrolment. In the second empirical study, while family background was important for education, there were also direct effects of family background on earnings given education for urban individuals, implying that “connections” and nepotism may be important. The final study shows that education is important for performance of unregistered businesses without workers. Among firms with workers, education is insignificant, a result admittedly difficult to explain. Parental business ownership assists performance, an implication that parental business owners can effectively train children to business ownership.
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Afful, Ebo. "Journalism, election campaigns and democracy in Ghana." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/99853/.
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Political communication literature has documented various forms of framing election campaigns although that on Ghana are few. These included issues, horse race, coverage tone and presidential candidates’ media visibility leading to an incumbency advantage. These are normally attributed to news values that reflect political power such as relevance and politicians’ elite status. Hence, this study is intended to explore explanation for the trend of campaign coverage in Ghana, a developing democracy, using four Ghanaian newspapers in 2008 and 2012. Through content analysis and in-depth interviews, the thesis grounded in gatekeeping and framing theories, has demonstrated that: (1) the state-owned newspapers did not give an incumbency advantage (2), the coverage was issues-based (3), election stories were more positive in tone (4), there was media bias and (5) politicians paid money (‘soli’) to journalists for coverage. These empirical findings show that during the campaigns, gatekeeping and framing practices were driven more likely by the ‘soli’ norm rather than the norm of objective and impartial journalism. Thus the study offers a new explanation why there was no incumbency advantage, why the press bias, why coverage was largely positive in tone and why issues-based framing. However, horse race appears to have the potential to dominate Ghana’s elections coverage. The conclusions of this study, one argues, were as a result of interplay between candidates’ desire not only to dominate the newspapers but also to be projected positively and journalists’ desire to make money from politicians. Simply put: stories of elections published by the newspapers were defined by ‘soli’ journalism which promoted ‘protocol’ journalism. This means most election stories that reached electorates were from speeches of candidates. Therefore, the stories lacked critical interpretation of campaign events raising issues of capacity of the press in Ghana to function effectively as public sphere contributing to participatory democracy.
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Akyeampong, Albert Kwame. "Continuous assessment in post-secondary teacher training in Ghana : a case study evaluation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13265/.
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The importance of and preference for assessing learning outcomes using a variety of assessment techniques and containing data from many sources, rather than the sole dependence on the one-shot examination, has long been recognised worldwide. This has led to major assessment policy changes in both developed and developing countries. In Ghana, this change has led to the introduction of continuous assessment at all levels of secondary schooling and post-secondary teacher training, to operate in parallel with external examinations. Although in Ghana evaluation studies of continuous assessment have been conducted for the secondary school level, none has so far been done for the post-secondary teacher training level. The purpose of this research was therefore, to examine the nature and scope of activities and problems that have to do with the practice of continuous assessment at the postsecondary teacher training level in Ghana. The research also examined the training and guidance provided for those undertaking continuous assessment, and the impact of the new assessments upon teaching and learning. A qualitative case study was conducted in three selected training colleges from the months, February to March of 1996 and January of 1997. The selected colleges were considered to be a fair representation of the teacher training college system in Ghana. The field research also included interviews with key officials associated with the postsecondary teacher training system. Findings from the multi-site case study evidence were presented and analysed for their significance. The findings of the research suggest that, many problems continue to threaten the benefits derivable from using continuous assessment in assessing students in the training colleges. The key findings that emerged as significant includes: operational and structural conditions in the colleges, professional support systems for tutors to carry out continuous assessment, tutor competency in assessment and considerations rooted in the values and beliefs of tutors about assessment which define their assessment culture and agenda. Evidence from those findings was then used as a basis for conclusions about improving continuous assessment in post-secondary teacher training, in Ghana. Recommendations for policy implementation and potential areas for further research were also made.
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Amponsah, David Kofi. "(Un)Desirable Customs: A History of Indigenous Religion and the Making of Modern Ghana, C. 1800-1966." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467246.
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This dissertation examines the explicit and implicit currency of indigenous religious thought on political, moral, and social formations from precolonial through colonial to postcolonial Ghana. It advances new answers to debates in Ghana about the role, if any, indigenous religion has to play in a modern Christian-dominated public sphere that simultaneously defines itself as secular by situating these debates in the history of the suppression and appropriation of so-called “undesirable customs” and their agents by both British and Ghanaian government officials. Based on archival research (colonial reports, government records, legal documents, newspapers, diaries, etc.,) and a dozen oral interviews (with former and current politicians, indigenous religious priests, chiefs, and elders), (Un)Desirable Customs argues that despite its “unpopularity” and decline, indigenous religion critically shaped the construction of the colonial and postcolonial Ghanaian state. I highlight the inherent paradox in how the state morally and culturally stigmatized indigenous religious beliefs and practices, in an attempt to perform certain conceptions of secular modernity and Christian morality, yet, at the same time, appropriated indigenous religious rituals and symbols. These contradictory measures, I argue, are better understood as strategies of purifications that the state has enacted and continues to perform on itself in its attempt to define itself as “modern.” My study fundamentally shifts the attention from Christianity and Islam in relation to politico-moral formations to a focus on indigenous religion.
This historical project complicates current scholarship on secularism in both the West and non-West. It challenges us to examine the political, ethical, and conceptual limits of secularism and religious tolerance in the modern period. My research makes clear that the debate about the place of indigenous religion was, and continues to be, couched as an issue of public morality and wellbeing. This approach to the study of indigenous religion also calls into question the longstanding perception about its irrelevance, showing how various elements of indigenous religious beliefs and practices have left their imprint on the political, moral, and social fabric of society. I also attend to how Africans, particularly traditionalists, responded to their marginalization, the appropriation of their symbols, and the changing religious landscape. This work responds to the necessity to complicate the triumphant narrative of the implacable dominance of Christianity and Islam in the African political and public sphere.Religion, Committee on the Study of
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Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra. "West African labour and the development of mechanised mining in southwest Ghana, c.1870s to 1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2a086cfd-2398-4d14-9a28-c2252176d2a4.
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Wassa in southwest Ghana was the location of the largest mining sector in colonial British West Africa. The gold mines provide an excellent case study of how labour was mobilised for large-scale production immediately after the legal end of slavery, in the context of an expansive independent labour market. Divided into three sections, this thesis examines the practice of indirect labour recruitment for the mines during the formative years of colonial rule; the incorporation of ‘traditional’ credit relationships into ‘modern’ commerce. The starting point for this study is the analysis of precolonial strategies for mobilising labour. Part one examines the most pervasive and coercive employer-employee relationship in precolonial West Africa, namely the master-slave relationship. Even enslaved Africans could expect individual economic opportunity, and related to such, debt protection, and the power of labourers increased significantly after abolition. Starting in the 1870s, mine management found that the most effective way of recruiting long-term wage earners was through headmen; African authorities who established temporary patronage relationships with a group of labourers by offering them credit. Moreover, administrative and court records indicate that there were various forms of headship, some which the mines managed to impose greater regulation over than others. Therefore, part two demonstrates that issues of cost and control of recruitment differed depending on whether the labour recruiter had been furnished with the capital of a mining firm to conduct his business, whether he had done so with his own personal savings, or whether he was in the employment of the colonial government. Finally, part three takes a comparative look at headship and recruitment through rural chiefs, which began in 1906; two successive forms of non-free wage labour mobilisation. In 1909, mine management reverted to the headship system that many colonial commentators regarded as being more compatible with the colonial political order, albeit under considerably stricter regulations.
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Donani, Yao-Martin. "Developing a framework for sustainable manufacturing of technologies in Africa focusing on Ghana." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37127/.
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This thesis is concerned with developing a framework for the sustainable manufacturing of technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on Ghana, for local industry. The interest here is on manufacturing and production technologies. Drawing on the work of Clemens and Dalrymple (2005), a three step approach emerged as an overarching methodology leading to the construction of the Ghana manufacturing of technology model (GMTM). The work of Sagasti (1992) provided the framework for its construction. The aim here is to investigate to understand what factors account for the state of technology drawback in Ghana, so as to be able to explain them. A multidisciplinary approach was therefore required and employed. Owing to the human and cultural understanding required here, a mixed-research approach involving ethnography, grounded theory and case-study was found to be most suitable. This involved data from two rural communities, expanding to the urban areas where government officials, policy makers and heads of institutions were interviewed. The corpus of data was analysed using grounded theory and a case study of the shea butter industry provided further insights. The findings, among other things, suggest that Ghana has no focused framework for technology manufacturing for local industry. The study noted that the cultural and ethnic division in traditional Ghana, inhibits knowledge and cultural exchange, hence, affecting the deployment and advancement of traditional technologies in the "closed" societies. This division is reflected in the formal Ghanaian sector, which side-lines the traditional sector from development and industrialisation decision making. Government Officials and policy makers were found to be vague on technology development for local industry, but were focused on developing high-techs, like nano-technologies and science parks. The study sees this as misplaced priority. The technology drive will require a business model, which falls outside the scope here, hence left for future work. A new concept of development engineering emerges from the study.
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Diop, Ousmane. "Decolonizing Education in Post-Independence Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1385073171.
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Antwi, Ardakwah Yaw. "Urban land markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : a quantitative study of Accra Ghana." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2000. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2504.
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The existing body of knowledge attributes to informal land transactions in sub-Saharan African cities observed problems in city neighbourhoods. However, the dearth of empirically insightful studies of how this eventuates continues to leave a vacuum in terms of practical solutions. But it is commonly held that bureaucratic intervention offers a way out. Substantial resources, often backed by donor agencies, are therefore being spent in revamping bureaux and governmental bodies in a bid to solving the problems. This thesis sets as its central aim to identify and establish the costs to agents of the real causes of the problems. It also aims to assess the economic impact of formal policy measures on agents and recommends feasible approaches to market regulations. To address the objectives insights from property rights, transactions costs and public choice economics are brought to bear. Based on a survey of market participants of sampled informal neighbourhoods in Accra, the capital city of Ghana, it employs regression and discriminant analyses to analyse the data generated. In the process helpful insights are gained. It has been possible to put some figures to the extent of costs that lead agents to operate in ways that eventually translate into the problems commonly witnessed. The study finds that actual costs to market participants of government activities are too high to be of any benefit. These costs mainly derive from rent-seeking behaviour which extensive bureaucratic intervention of transactions in urban residential lands bring about. On the basis of the results of the regression analysis, arguments implying inefficiency of informal land markets, specifically relating to the arbitrary nature of prices, are refuted. The futility of the use of compulsory purchase powers to create residential neighbourhoods also emerges from the results of the discriminant analysis. Similarly, efficiency' enhancing bureaucratic interventions in the informal market lead to the diversion of real resources into wasteful rent-seeking expenditures. The sum of these wasteful diversions of resources explains a great deal of the haphazard developments that have come to characterise many neighbourhoods of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Market led regulation emerges as the needed focus of future land policy and management strategy. But to work the study calls for the removal of unwarranted market interventions extant at the present moment and the reorganisation of bureaux to be responsible in ways that would induce them to operate efficiently.
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Bohman, Anna. "Framing the water and sanitation challenge : A history of urban water supply and sanitation in Ghana 1909 - 2005." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Department of economic history, Umeå university, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-32855.
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Serra, Gerardo. "From scattered data to ideological education : economics, statistics and the state in Ghana, 1948-1966." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3188/.
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This thesis analyses the contribution of economics and statistics in the transformation of Ghana from colonial dependency to socialist one-party state. The narrative begins in 1948, extending through the years of decolonization, and ends in 1966, when the first postcolonial government led by Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown by a military coup d’état. Drawing on insights from political economy, the history of economics and the sociology of science, the study is constructed as a series of microhistories of public institutions, social scientists, statistical enquiries and development plans. In the period under consideration economics and statistics underwent a radical transformation in their political use. This transformation is epitomised by the two extremes mentioned in the title: the ‘scattered data’ of 1950s household budget surveys were expression of the limited will and capacity of the colonial state to exercise control over different areas of the country. In contrast, the 1960s dream of a monolithic one-party state led the political rulers to use Marxist-Leninist political economy as a cornerstone of the ideological education aiming at creating the ideal citizen of the socialist regime. Based on research in British and Ghanaian archives, the study claims that economists and statisticians provided important cognitive tools to imagine competing alternatives to the postcolonial nation state, finding its most extreme version in the attempt to fashion a new type of economics supporting Nkrumah’s dream of a Pan-African political and economic union. At a more general level, the thesis provides a step towards a deeper incorporation of Sub-Saharan Africa in the history of economics and statistics, by depicting it not simply as an importer of ideas and scientific practices, but as a site in which the interaction of local and foreign political and scientific visions turned economics and statistics into powerful tools of social engineering. These tools created new spaces for political support and dissent, and shifted the boundaries between the possible and the utopian.
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Brenya-Baah, Kwaku. "TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL IMPACT OF ASANTE KENTE AND ADINKRA." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1417632170.
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Plageman, Nathan A. "Everybody likes Saturday night a social history of popular music and masculinities in urban Gold Coast/Ghana, c. 1900-1970 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319904.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3277. Adviser: John H. Hanson.
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Simpson, Samuel Nana Yaw. "Public sector reform and disclosure practices of state-owned enterprises : the case of Ghana." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4902/.
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This thesis examines the disclosure practices of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and the impact of reform programmes in the SOE sector on such practices. The study stems from evidence of poor performance of SOEs attributed to the dearth of information disclosure, hence, the introduction of reform programmes to address these problems. Based on multiple case design with data gathered from three large SOEs and key policy makers in the SOE sector of Ghana, the findings show that the disclosure relationships, objectives, and media are generally the same across all SOEs. There are however some notable variations from the both within-case and cross-case analyses, with respect to the generic sections, volume and disclosure types in their respective annual reports. There are also differences in relation to the processes of producing their disclosure media. With regards to the impact of reform programmes, the study found both sector-wide and industry specific reform programmes, driven and underpinned by institutional forces and tenets of agency theory. These programmes have among other things, increased the numbers of disclosure media, stakeholders or principals that SOEs must disclose to, expanded the nature of disclosure (managerial, program, procedures, and financial) and types of disclosure relationships (diagonal).
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Iacovelli, Gianpiero. "The Ideology of Mental Illness in Ghana : A Discourse Analysis of Mental Health Laws (1972-2012)." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Afrikanska studier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28168.
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In 2012, Ghanaian government promulgated a new mental health law aimed at setting up a community-based health care system in order to solve several problems that are affecting mental health facilities and people with mental disorders. The new law was also thought to overcome the limitations of the previous law, which was promulgated in 1972. This study provides an analysis of the mental health laws promulgated by the government of Ghana from 1972 to 2012. Through the methodological tools offered by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the aim of the thesis is to trace the ideological background of mental health laws and its changes over time. The analysis is particularly focused on themes such as the issue of public safety, the construction of the “mentally ill subject” and the conceptualisation of mental illness in the legal texts.
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Boampong, Owusu. "Market imperfections and the effectiveness of subcontracting and informal institutions in export market transactions in Ghana." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1105/.
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The study set out to explore how small exporting firms coordinate production functions and the extent to which the chosen path of institutional arrangements enable them to reduce market imperfections, access resources, meet export market requirements and succeed in the export market. The literature posits that in the absence of effective state institutions, informal and private institutional arrangements tend to govern market transactions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these arrangements in supporting distant and expanding trade transactions, especially, in Africa. Using the Ghanaian craft export sector as a case, the study showed that the small-scale exporters rely predominantly on informal institutions and subcontracting ties in their export transactions. Yet these informal and subcontractual relations remain inadequate coordination mechanisms for engendering greater export success. Under conditions of market imperfections and endemic opportunism, the informal trade arrangements and loose arm’s length subcontracting relations only enable the small firms to achieve imperfect results even in modestly complex and expanding trade transactions. Notwithstanding, informal subcontractual ties potentially offer the platform for the small enterprises to succeed in the export market given improvements in the socio-cultural and the microeconomic environments. The emergence of “in-house contracting” in the industry is linked to the move by some of the exporters to reduce transaction costs and meet quality standards. By this arrangement, the entrepreneur has some level of control (albeit less rigid) necessary to reduce transaction costs, meet quality requirements, and flexibly adjust to fluctuations in export market demands. The in-house exporter maintains multiple informal and trust building relationships with segmented buyers and subcontractors to keep the production system operational.
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Ibrahim, Ahmed-Rufai. "Transforming the Dagbon Chieftaincy Conflict in Ghana: Perception on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)." Diss., NSUWorks, 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/105.
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The study is a survey research with a focus on the perceptions of the two conflicting parties in the Dagbon chieftaincy conflict in Ghana; the Abudu, and the Andani royal families on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve and transform the Dagbon chieftaincy conflict in Ghana. The conflict is over the rightful heir to the Yendi throne (skin) and it has persisted for more than five decades in Ghana’s post-independence history. All attempts to amicably resolve and transform the conflict through government established committees and commissions of inquiry, rulings by the law courts, and interventions by state and non-state institutions and actors have failed to yield any positive results. An alternative conflict settlement approach is therefore required to resolve and transform the conflict. ADR which is an approach employed by two or more parties in the settlement of conflicts and disputes other than the judicial court system is perceived to be an option. Historically, the traditional practice of ADR dates back to the pre-colonial era in Africa including Ghana. However, Ghana formally introduced ADR by promulgating the ADR Act (Act 798) in 2010. Three significant theories, namely; ripeness theory, Hobbes’ inherency theory and the group identity theory have been used to explain the study. Existing literature has been systematically reviewed. Primary data was gathered with a questionnaire. The data was then scientifically examined, analyzed, and interpreted. The findings are that respondents are very much aware of the existence of the conflict and its effects. The general perception is that, the ADR method when employed could result in an amicable resolution and transformation of the Dagbon conflict in Ghana. The research contributes to emerging literature on the relevance of Alternative Dispute Resolution and its success in the resolution of conflicts and disputes.
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Moyes, Samantha. "The Making of the Everyday: A Study of Habits in Colonial Ghana (Gold Coast) during the Early Twentieth Century." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31712.
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Everyday practice often goes unquestioned. Yet in Gold Coast society during the early twentieth century, everyday habits and practices served as an important device for both subalterns and elites to negotiate status or contest colonial control. Between 1900 and 1920, the Gold Coast was experiencing many changes that offered opportunities for actors to influence, negotiate, or contest emerging everyday habits and experiences. The monitoring and modification of everyday habits provided a way for the British colonial government to consolidate its rule in the Gold Coast following the period of military expansion in the late nineteenth century. For many Gold Coasters, increased access to education, the expansion of wage labour and the cocoa industry, led to a reconfiguration of social status and relations affecting daily life.
While scholars are increasingly examining the theme of everyday practices, many tend to focus on the experiences of subaltern peoples. This study focuses instead on the role of an emerging, yet subjected, urban elite comprised of educated Africans. Caught between their understanding of African “tradition” and Western ideas of modernity, educated African elite attempted to influence everyday experiences and habits as a way to claim greater authority and enhance their position in the colony. Furthermore, this study examines how colonial administrators, too, used everyday habits and experiences to reinforce colonial governance in Gold Coast. In early twentieth century Gold Coast society, everyday habits and practices served as a battleground for contests for authority and influence as educated Africans and colonizers narrativized their own concepts of modernity and visions of the Gold Coast’s future in the pages of colonial reports, diaries, missionary correspondence, and Gold Coast newspapers. Using this and other primary source material, this thesis demonstrates how space, personhood, and food became important arenas through which various actors – African and European – vied to control, construct, and influence everyday habits and experiences in early twentieth century Gold Coast.
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Herko, Joel. "Religionsundervisning i en afrikansk kontext : en jämförelse av tre olika skolor i Accra, Ghana." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-604.
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I denna studie undersöker och analyserar jag religionsundervisningen i tre olika skolor i Ghanas huvudstad Accra. De tre skolorna har alla olika profiler, varav en är muslimsk, en är kristen och en saknar religiös profil eller är icke-konfessionell. De tre skolorna är således Islamic Educational Unit, Presbyterian Boys Secondary School samt University Primary School.
Studiens syfte är att jämföra hur religionsundervisningen ser ut och bedrivs i de olika skolorna, vilka olika religioner som presenteras i undervisningen och hur man ställer sig till olika aspekter av religionsundervisningen och religion i allmänhet, och hur ämnet är upplagt. Jag vill undersöka huruvida religionsundervisningen i de olika skolorna domineras av någon religion och ifall någon religion helt lämnas utanför. Detta är viktigt för att ge en bild av hur skolornas karaktär ser ut och hur man prioriterar i undervisningen. Undersökningen innebär en jämförelse mellan skolorna, vad som skiljer och vad som är likt i den undervisning som ges till ungdomar i några av Accras skolor. För att få den bästa och mest övergripande bilden av hur undervisningen ser ut, krävs en stor tonvikt på lärarna. Eftersom lärarna ger så stark prägel på undervisningen, behövs det även framhållas hur de personligen ser på religion i olika syften.
För att nå mina mål och syften, kommer jag att arbeta utifrån följande frågeställningar:
• Vilka böcker och vilken litteratur används i samband med undervisningen?
• Vilken syn har lärarna på religion som ett ämne i skolan?
• Vilken är lärarnas personliga syn på religion, och religionen i samhället?
• Vilka religioner presenteras i undervisningen?
The purpose of this study was to examine how religion as a subject in school is taught in three different schools in the capitol of Ghana, Accra. The schools have different religious profiles; Muslim, Christian and non-confessional. The aim is to present a view on the subject of religion that is taught in these different schools, what separates them and what is common to them.
The result was slightly surprising, because all the schools seemed more similar than different. That is not what you could expect from the beginning, but it has its reasons. In Ghana there is and always has been a strong freedom of worship, and they have never suffered from problems with religious disputes in modern times. Certainly that is because of the education that is given in the schools. Every student is taught about the three main religions in Ghana, and they learn about them in detail. The main difference between the three schools is that the Christian school has its own subject (Christian Religious Studies), and that the Muslim school has mandatory teaching in Arabic and Islam. Besides that, the similarities are much more visible than the differences. Much of that is because of the economic situation in the country, there are no options, and therefore the education is similar in most of the schools.
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Laursen, Josephine. "Who Owns This Jungle? : Changes, Landownership and Traditional Authority in the Tropical Forests of Western Ghana." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-393164.
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At present, in Adansi and Daboase, two rural communities in Western Ghana, changes are both internally and externally driven. Combined with ongoing negotiations of authority, landownership, history, tradition and culture, the interconnectedness of these areas shapes the realities of these communities. This thesis investigates these land-related conflicts and authority negotiations from a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Inspired by action-oriented research, the lives of local residents are investigated and attempted to be understood through their own explanations. Four months of internship with an oil palm and rubber plantation company, focus groups and semi-structured interviews in two local communities to the plantation, lay the foundation of this thesis. It shows an intimate connection between landownership and resource rights, and history, heritage and traditional authority.Land is key to power or a secured future for one’s family, which makes it an inflamed topic. Landownership and the underlying negotiations are crucial to the understanding of what occupies many local residents in a setting of globalised markets. The thesis points to gaps of understanding and varying interests in-between government, external actors, chieftaincy and community members. Thorough consultation process procedures prior to projects in rural communities are proposed. The project adds to a larger discussion on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, local knowledge and experiences on land conflicts, and post-colonial settings in Ghana.
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Slabbert, Roelou. "A study of the history of and prospects for economic growth in African countries, with specific reference to Angola, Ghana and Nigeria." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49207.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Africa's economic growth will not be found across the Atlantic or Indian oceans in international markets. Growth will not be achieved by simply giving away state assets in large privatisation transactions. Growth will also not come from giving away valuable concessions to scarce natural resources or handing out investment incentives to resource seeking foreign investors. Governments and policy makers need to accept that drivers to sustainable economic growth, lies much closer to home. Not in greater domestic savings by that average man in the street (who, in Africa's poor economies, often would need to forego a daily meal in order to save), but even closer. The policies for economic growth in Africa need to be focussed on flrst achieving production and allocative efficiencies at home. The real drivers to achieve growth are to be found in the primary responsibilities of the state: Political stability though good governance Stable macroeconomic environments Good working infrastructures Educated and trained labour forces Sizable market through regional cooperation (eg. SADe) African leaders and policy makers would be well served by a change in policy and attitude. Searching for solutions from within, rather than from abroad, will provide more sustainable growth. Requests for international debt relieve, complaints about (and excuses based on) the wrongs of the colonial past, demands for international trade concessions and efforts to secure international investment; may only result in a shift in the focus away from the basic problems at home. At the same time, a committed and disciplined focus on political and macro-economic stability; an efficient infrastructure, quality labour and bigger markets will naturally lead to substantial increases in international trade (while at the same time provide for better platform for negotiating international trade dispensation), will generate foreign investment and will reduce the importance of debt relieve. In addition, an stable environment combined with a reliable infrastructure and a quality labour force provides fertile grounds for local African entrepreneurs to excel and in time create opportunities for domestic savings and organic growth. This study does will not convey a popular message. No quick fixes exist and Africa will have to turn their focus inwards. Africa will have to stop blaming past rulers and stop pleading with current the world leaders. International political and economical leaders will not come to the rescue of Africa, however wrong the past has been. Africa will have to pick itself up by its own bootlaces.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ekonorniese groei in Afrika sal nie gevind word oorkant die Atrlantiese of Indiese oseane in intemasionale markte nie. Groei sal nie behaal word deur eenvoudig staatbates weg te gee in groot privatiserings transaksies nie. Groei sal ook nie bewerkstellig word deur waardevolle konsessies tot skaars natuurlike hulpbronne uit te deel of deur toegewings vir die aansporing van beleggings aan hulpbron soekende intemasionale beleggers te maak nie. Owerhede en beleidmakers moet aanvaar dat die drywers vir volhoubare ekonomiese groei veel nader aan die huis Ie. Nie in groter huishoudelike besparings deur die man in die straat nie (wie Afrika se arm ekonomie waarskynlik 'n maaltyd sal moet prysegee om te kan spaar.), maar selfs nader. Die beleid vir ekonomiese groei in Afrika moet gefokus wees daarop om eerstens produksie en allokasie effektiwiteit in die plaaslike ekonomie te behaal. Die drywers om dit reg te kry word gevind in die primere vernatwoordelikhede van die staat: -Politieke stabiliteit deur goeie regering -Stabiele makro-ekonomiese omgewing -Goeie werkende infrastruktuur -Opgevoede en opgeleide werkersmag -Redelike grootte markte deur samewerking op streeksvlak (bv. SAOG) Afrika leiers en beleidmakers sal baat by 'n verandering in beleid en houding. Die soeke na oplossing van binne eerder as in die buiteland, sal eerder volhoubare groei bied. Versoeke vir intemasionale skuldverligting, klagtes rakende (en verskonings gebaseer op) die foute van die koloniale verlede, eise vir intemasionale handelskonsessies en pogings om internasionale beleggings te lok; al hierdie aksies lei waarskynlik slegs daartoe dat die fokus en aandag wegskuif van die basiese probleme in die plaaslike ekonomie. Terselfdertyd sal 'n toegewyde en gedissiplineerde fokus op politieke en makroekonomiese stabiliteit, 'n effektiewe infrastruktuur, hoer kwaliteit arbeidsmag en groter markte verseker oor die lang termyn weI lei tot 'n wesentlike toename in intemasionale handel (terwyl dit ook gelyktydig 'n beter platform skep om te onderbandel vir 'n meer voordelige intemasionale handelsdispensasie), meer intemasionale beleggings en sal die belangrikheid van skuldverligting laat afneem. Verder sal 'n stabiele omgewing, gekombineerd met 'n betroubare infrastruktuur en 'n bekwame arbeidsmag 'n vrugbare omgewing daar stel vir plaaslike Afrika entrepreneurs om uit te styg en te presteer. Dit sal oor die lang termyn geleentheid skep vir huishoudelike besparing en organiese groei. Hierdie studie bring nie 'n gewilde boodskap nie. Geen kitsoplossings bestaan nie en Afrika sal hul fokus inwaarts moet verskif. Afrika sal moet ophou om die koloniale heersers van die verlede te blameer en moet ophou om by huidige internasionale leiers te pleit vir hulp en toegewings. Intemasionale politieke en ekonomiese leiers sal nie tot die redding van Afrika kom nie, hoe verkeerd die verlede ookal was. Afrika sal homself moet optel aan sy eie skoenveters.
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Macrae, Clare. "Divinities and ancestors in encounter with Christianity in the experience and religious history of the early Irish and the Akan people of Ghana." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30432.
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An initial interest in understanding the surviving traditions relating to the pan-Celtic divinity Lugh in his Irish guise, and some personal acquaintance with West Africa suggested this comparative study. I soon found that the institution of the Akan traditional chieftancy, still functioning as integral to the socio-religious identity of the modern Akan people of Ghana, provided illuminating insights into the paradigmatic role of Lugh in relation to early Irish sacral kingship. Although early mediaeval Ireland and 19th and 20th century Gold Coast, now Ghana, are divided both in historical time and geographical space, other similarities in the "Universe of meaning" proper to each culture emerged during the study of their own specific 'encounters with Christianity'. Chap. 1 first 'introduces' Lugh through the Irish tale Cath Maige Tuired, and then the Akan, both in their historical and geographical context and tentatively, through varied clues, within their world of meaning and self-understanding. Chap 2 has two parts: Early Encounters with Christianity among the Irish and the Akan and Encounter as Confrontation. Chap.3 is a comparative study of the Sacral ruler in 4 parts: covering (a) the relationship of kinship to kingship; (b) the sacral ruler in theory and in action; (c) the myth/ritual conveying, enacting, and authenticating the union with the 'transcendent power' informing sacral rule, (centring on Baile in Scáil the other main Lugh 'source') and (d) The Festival of Lughnasa and Akan Odwira, each celebrating both Harvest and the centripetal function of kingship. Chap.4 explores and compares the presence and importance of the Female Principle for both, and Chap.5 collates the main conclusions of the study.
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Owusu, Nicodemus Osei. "Malaria control policies and strategies in Ghana : the level of community participation in the intersectoral collaboration." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/340008/.
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For more than a century now, malaria has been a major public health problem in Ghana which consequently has been one of the country’s sources of underdevelopment due to economic losses, high rate of morbidity and mortality. Faced with this problem, the last ten years has seen a commitment from the Ghanaian government to address the issue by establishing a policy that would transform the way the disease is prevented and controlled. The transformation of the management of the disease by the use of intersectoral collaboration strategy (ISC) was to ensure the inclusion of the grass root community members who were hitherto excluded from participating in policymaking process of the national malaria control programme (NMCP) activities. The idea was that by allowing the communities to participate, members would be empowered to have ownership of programme activities, could accept the challenges associated with the control of the disease, and above all contribute more effectively to the success of the policy goal of minimising the persistence of malaria in Ghana. However, over ten years now, no systematic study has been done to access the extent to which this policy goal has been rhetoric or a reality. This thesis therefore seeks to examine this vision by investigating the extent to which the community members are allowed by the health authorities to participate in this policy strategy. Drawing on the case studies in the rural and urban districts in Ghana, the practical reality of the degree of community participation in ISC has been explored. In addition, the roles played by the community members in malaria control programme activities were examined with the aim of understanding the importance of communities in malaria control efforts. Finally, the barriers to participation as well as the extent of the institutional involvement in ISC and its possibility to facilitate community participation have also been examined. Overall, the evidence from the study findings demonstrated that the established strategy of ISC has not significantly promoted community participation in the NMCP activities. While the communities were consulted on malaria issues, they were often excluded from the final decision-making on issues that needed to be acted upon. Consequently, the communities have no guarantee that their views will be considered during the final deliberation in which they have little or no part to play. In spite of this, the study found that through various ways, the community members had been playing a number of significant roles in the control activities. These roles included: supporting health staff in their outreach services, contributing in managing the environment, providing assistance in the monitoring and evaluation of malaria programmes and finally assisting victims to cope with the disease. The findings also indicated that without a number of barriers, certain existing contextual factors (e.g. good level of horizontal integration and political structures and social-cultural institutions) potentially could have contributed to the community participation. From the views of health officials, these barriers were the powers of central bureaucratic structures and lack of resources whilst the community members perceived poverty, lack of support from the local health authorities, the precarious nature of their livelihood and traditional culture as those factors that have undermined participation. These barriers were structural and as such tackling any one barrier in isolation was not likely to solve the malaria problem. Besides, no one government sector, on its own, through participation, could make it possible for the community members to have a full ownership of the control programme activities as well as develop a culture of malaria prevention and control. Thus in the context of the study sites, the study concluded that although there is no evidence to suggest that ISC has enhanced full community participation, the strategy should be commended. In reality, the finding indicated that through ISC strategy many sectors including the community have become more aware of malaria problem and communicate more to solve the problem together. In the light of this, the study finds joint action in the form of ISC across many government sectors as a potential solution if these barriers are to be dealt with in a more strategic way rather than a piecemeal manner. In conclusion, it has been argued that with such a complex problem like malaria, ISC with community participation in policy making process is both a necessary and sufficient condition in reducing malaria persistence in the study sites. The health sector must work collaboratively with other related sectors and it is with such collaborative efforts that can change the attitudes of the community members. Changes in behavioural attitudes are paramount if communities’ activities that affect the environment and promote breeding of mosquitoes are to be minimised. Thus with ISC strategy, what is further needed are: proper control planning that will ensure better coordination amongst sectors, adequate resources and behavioural change by the community members themselves. Each of these factors, I believe should not work in isolation, rather must work together otherwise malaria persistence in Ghana will not go away anytime soon.
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Twum-Danso, Afua Oppong. "Searching for a middleground in children’s rights : the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/453/.
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, is the world’s most widely and rapidly ratified international convention. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have an enormously positive impact on all children, this has not happened in many parts of the world for a variety of reasons, including its western bias, which has, hitherto, dominated the debate on children’s rights. However, this universality vs. relativity dichotomy does not help us to protect children on the ground. Hence, it is necessary to move beyond the binary debate relating to the universality and relativity of children’s rights and engage with children’s local realities, which illustrate that there is, indeed, a middle ground in which people live their lives that may facilitate dialogue on children’s rights with local communities. In order to identify this middle ground the thesis focused on eliciting the perceptions of adults and children in two local communities in Accra, Ghana, the first country to ratify the Convention in February 1990, on children’s rights, constructing childhood and the socialization of children and their implications for the implementation of the Convention. Special attention is given to Article 12, which has caused controversy in countries around the world.
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Bohman, Anna. "Framing the Water Challenge : Multilateral donor policies for water supply and sanitation 1960-2005." Licentiate thesis, Umeå University, Department of Economic History, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-946.
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Opinions on what is best way to provide more people in low income countries with adequate water and sanitation services have changed over time. A recent policy paradigm suggests that private companies should be involved in WSS service provision to improve the situation for those in need.
This study looks at how issues of water supply and sanitation (WSS) have been confronted by the international donor community and how strategies to improve performance in this sector have changed from the early 1970’s up until today. The evolution of ideas and strategies are linked to overall development policies in order to better understand the forces that have shaped policy redirections in the sector. In addition, the case study of Ghana gives a preliminary picture of how donor policies have been played out in a national context. The concept of problem frames is used as an analytical tool in order to highlight how ideas change and replace each other but also to illustrate how problem frames are becoming more inclusive as new knowledge and experiences are gained.
The study finds that while hardware knowledge such as engineering skills were put at the forefront to begin with, software matters such as capacity building and appropriate management of the sector gained increased attention with time. As the water challenge becomes increasingly framed as a matter of managing scarcity, the economic value of water is emphasized and private sector participation is promoted on a larger scale. With time the cross sectoral nature of the WSS issue gains increased attention as its overall impact on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability is emphasized. This holistic approach also contributes to an increased emphasis on sanitation as important to sustainable WSS systems and services.
The case study of Ghana shows that all in all, institutional change within the Ghanaian WSS sector during the post independence era, mirror international policy trends. Power is moving out from the state in different directions and responsibilities are gradually hived off from the central organization to local authorities or other agencies working on specific issues. Subsidies on water tariffs are abolished and at the end of the period the private sector is also invited to act in the sector. However, recent trends indicate that as democracy deepens and civil society is growing stronger this also effects policy development in the Ghanaian WSS sector.
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Owusu-Dabo, Ellis. "Smoking in Ghana : a study of the history of tobacco industry activity, current prevalence and risk factors for smoking, and implementation of tobacco control policy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29456/.
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Background: There has been relatively little research on the prevalence and use of tobacco products in developing countries, where the majority of morbidity and mortality from tobacco use in this century is expected to occur. This is particularly true of countries in Africa. I conducted this study in the Ashanti region of Ghana, primarily to measure prevalence and risk factors for smoking, and secondarily to develop a template for national surveys in similar settings in developing countries. I also investigated the history of tobacco use in Ghana and looked into current implementation of tobacco control policy, in particular the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The FCTC Is the World Health Organization's first public health treaty, established to counter the tobacco pandemic internationally. Methods: First, using electronic literature searches of the tobacco document archives and local library, I searched for all documents with information on the tobacco industry in Ghana and all studies of the prevalence of smoking in Ghana. Secondly, using a two-stage cluster randomized sampling design, I collected data from adults aged 14 and over in a representative household sample of approximately 720 households in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Finally, I conducted interviews with 20 key policy makers involved with Ghana's implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and other tobacco control policies to assess Ghana's progress of implementation. Results: Searches of the literature and tobacco document archives established that British American Tobacco (BAT), and latterly the International Tobacco Company Ghana (ITG) and its successor, the Meridian Tobacco Company (MTC), have been manufacturing cigarettes In Ghana since 1954. After an initial sales booming the two decades after independence in 1957, further increases in consumption typical of the tobacco epidemic in most countries did not occur. Possible key reasons include the taking of tobacco companies into state ownership, and a lack of foreign exchange to fund tobacco leaf importation in the 1970s, both of which may have inhibited growth at a key stage of development; and the introduction of an advertising ban in 1982. BAT ceased manufacturing cigarettes in Ghana in 2006. My survey involved 7096 eligible individuals resident in the sampled households, of whom 6258 (88%; median age 31 (range 14-105) years; 64% female) participated. The prevalence of self-reported current smoking (weighted for gender differences in response) was 3.8% (males 8.9%, females 0.3%), and of ever smoking 9.7% (males 22.0%, females 1.2%). Smoking prevalence was strongly related to increasing age, being highest in the 60-69 age-group (Odds Ratio relative to 14-19 year olds 6.36 (95% Confidence Interval 3.26 to 12.38, Ptrend<0.001), and varied significantly in relation to religion (overall p<0.001), being particularly high in those of Traditionalist belief relative to the Christian majority (adjusted OR 7.50, 95% CI 4.43-12.69);in relation to education level (overall p=0.03, adjusted OR for those with no or only primary education compared with those of tertiary education OR 1.49, 95% CI 0.81-2.73); and in relation to occupation (overall p=0.003, adjusted OR for skilled workers relative to the unemployed 0.66, 95% CI 0.41-1.06). Smokers were more likely to drink alcohol (adjusted OR 7.70, 95% CI 4.63-12.93, p<0.001) and to have friends who smoke (adjusted OR 4.24, 95% CI 3.52-5.11 p<0.001), and significantly less likely to take exercise (adjusted OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.72-0.93, p<0.05). Among smokers, over three quarters (76%) had attempted to quit in the last six months, with the main sources of advice being friends and spouses. Use of smoking cessation medications, such as nicotine replacement therapy, was very rare. About 10% of cigarettes smoked were smuggled brands. About a third (38%) of smokers were highly or very highly dependent. Overall the proportion of ever-smokers who had quit smoking was high (61%) in all age groups. The median number and Interquartile range of cigarettes smoked per day by male and female current smokers on weekdays were respectively 6(1- 40) and 5 (4-10), and at weekends 19 (2-70) and 11 (8-20) respectively. The commonest brands smoked were London Brown (42%) and King Size (22%), both manufactured by BAT. Smokeless tobacco had been used ever by 3.2% of men and had been used more by older than younger people (adjusted OR for over 50's relative to 14-19 year olds 2.09 (95% 1.38-3.18, p<0.05, Ptrend =0.006). Knowledge of the health risks of smoking, including passive smoking and its impact on children and non-smokers, was high; radio (74%) and television (28%) were the main sources of such information and advice. Levels of health awareness were typically but not invariably higher in older people, in men, among the more highly educated and in those living in rural areas. There were few restrictions on smoking in public, and most people (38%) therefore worked and/or spent time in places where smoking was permitted. There was very strong support (97%) for comprehensive smoke-free legislation, mainly among Christians and Muslims. Despite the advertising ban, around a third of respondents (35%), particularly in urban areas, had noticed advertising of tobacco or tobacco products. Again radio was the main source of exposure (72%) but some had also noticed advertising on television (28%). The interviews with policy makers showed that they had good knowledge of the content of the FCTC, and reported that although Ghana had no explicit written policy strategy on tobacco control, the Ministry of Health had issued several tobacco control directives both before and after ratification of the FCTC. A national tobacco control bill had been drafted but had not yet been implemented, something which the policy makers needed to happen urgently. Challenges identified included the absence of a legal framework for implementing the FCTC, and a lack of adequate resources and prioritization of tobacco control efforts. Conclusions: Despite rapid economic growth and a sustained tobacco industry presence, smoking prevalence In Ghana was low, particularly among younger people. This suggests that In contrast to many other developing countries, progression of an epidemic increase in smoking has been avoided. Awareness of health risks and support for smoke-free policies were high in Ghana. Exposure to tobacco advertising or promotion was limited, and most smokers reported having tried to quit. Whether these findings are cause or effect of the current low smoking prevalence is uncertain. The likely reasons that I have identified for the low smoking prevalence include an early advertising ban, substantial state intervention in the tobacco industry at a crucial point of growth, socio-cultural factors (particularly religion), the harsh economic environment at a time when the industry was experiencing growth and other public health interventions such as health education by stakeholders involved in tobacco control. Although policy makers were aware of the FCTC, implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) treaty has been slow, requiring an urgent need for the passage of the national tobacco control bill into law to enable the country to sustain its tobacco control efforts.
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Kraamer, Malika. "Colourful changes : two hundred years of social and design history in the hand-woven textiles of the Ewe-speaking regions of Ghana and Togo (1800-2000)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417129.
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Bowden, Ashley Camille. "Intersections of History, Memory, and “Rememory:” A Comparative Study of Elmina Castle and Williamsburg." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250174347.
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Gyberg, Eva, and Hanna Öhrman. "Att finna mening med livet : en studie av ett serieteckningsprojekt om existentiella frågor bland skolbarn i Accra, Ghana." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för religionsvetenskap, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4156.
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Syften med studien var att:
- Undersöka hur barnen, som kom från olika religiös och etnisk bakgrund, förhöll sig till existentiella frågor och hur förhållandena mellan barn och vuxna med olika religiös bakgrund fungerade i skolan.
- Genomföra ett serietecknarprojekt för att ge barnen möjligheter att uttrycka och arbeta med existentiella frågor och till följd av detta hoppades vi att barnen skulle uppleva en ökad känsla av sammanhang och mening. Vi hoppades också att det kunde skapa större förståelse mellan olika religiösa och etniska grupper.
Frågorna vi ställde oss var följande:
- Vilka är de olika uttrycken för religion bland barn i en skola i centrala Accra, Ghana och hur kan de förstås styrka känslan av samband och mening i barnens liv?
- Hur är den nuvarande situationen när det gäller tolerans och förståelse mellan barn med olika religiös och etnisk bakgrund?
- Kan ett serieprojekt påverka barnens möjligheter att skapa en känsla av sammanhang och mening i tillvaron och bidra till att öka förståelsen mellan barnen?
Studenterna har skrivit uppsatsen gemensamt, men på olika fördjupningsnivå, dvs. C-nivå (Hanna Öhrman) resp. D-nivå (Eva Gyberg).
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Adekoya, Wilmot Nah. "Exploring Ghana's Strategies for Stability:Lessons for Postwar Reconstruction." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2512.
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Between 1990 and 2005, the state of affairs in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, including Liberia, remained fragile due to continuous civil unrest and war. Although peace initiatives were initiated, progress toward peace has remained minimal. Ghana, one of the nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, has continued to demonstrate significant stability and progress in the midst of civil and political conflicts in the sub-region. Currently, little research exists on how Ghanaians managed to remain stable, while countries in the sub-region continued to experience civil unrests and wars. Using Eisenstadt's theory of sociological modernization as the theoretical foundation, the purpose of this holistic case study sought to understand factors that have driven stability in Ghana. Data were collected from multiple sources including 15 research participants of diverse professions and perspectives, numerous pertinent documents, and field notes. All data were inductively coded and then subjected to a thematic analysis procedure. Social change lessons extracted from the study linked to core findings include (a) Ghanaians demonstrate an understanding of the importance of both African and Western cultural experiences and integrating the experiences from both cultural sectors for national harmony, and (b) Ghanaians are pursuing a national development agenda through economic reforms, participatory democracy, and some level of equal distribution of the national wealth. The effectiveness of Ghana's national development agenda is demonstrated by capacity building and the strengthening of social service programs not just in the urban sector, but also in the rural sector of Ghanaian society. These two core social change lessons could remain useful for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Asiedu, Gladys Barkey. "“Once it’s your sister, they think it’s in the bloodline”: impact of HIV/aids- related stigma in Ghana." Diss., Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6698.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Family Studies and Human Services
Karen S. Myers-Bowman
The purpose of this study was to conduct a phenomenological inquiry into the impact HIV/AIDS-related stigma has on People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and their family members in Ghana and the overall relationship family members have with PLHA. The study explored the concept of stigma in the Ghanaian context, ways in which it is expressed, factors influencing HIV- related stigma and its consequences on both PLHA and their family members. Strategies that PLHA and their family members consider for effective HIV- related stigma prevention were also explored. The study further explored some of the gender- biased nature of HIV- related stigma in Ghana. Data was gathered qualitatively through interviews with five PLHA and their discordant family members. Interviews were transcribed and translated into English, coded and analyzed. After inductively establishing themes and categories, final confirmatory analysis was deductively established, by using the Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model and Symbolic interaction theory to affirm the authenticity and appropriateness of the inductive content analysis. The study found that HIV- related stigma begins with serostatus disclosure. Stigma is manifested in myriad contexts including the family, community, healthcare institutions and gender. The major factors influencing stigma are insufficient knowledge of HIV transmission, fear and misconception of HIV created by the media, cultural and religious factors as well as poverty. Family members experienced similar stigma as PLHA, such as loss of jobs, loss of social network, loss of identity and self stigma. However extreme impacts such as suicidal thoughts were only experienced by PLHA. The impact of HIV- related stigma is worst for women because of beliefs and values relating to gender- role expectations. While women accept and support their husbands when they have HIV/AIDS, women are often neglected and abandoned by their husbands. To address this stigma, participants suggested house to house education, financial support from the government, revision of educational content especially discontinuation of negative images of HIV/AIDS used by the media. Implications for this study in the areas of research, practice and policy are provided.
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Diallo, Boubacar Séga. "Les origines de l'empire de Ghana." Paris 1, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA010548.
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Ce travail est une contribution a l'etude du wagadu, que les auteurs arabes et europeens ont appele ghana. Nous avons travaille sur quatorze sources orales, recueillies de 1887 a 1984, par des administrateurs coloniaux et nous. Pour les geseru -depositaires de la tradition du wagadu-, ce pays et sa capitale kumbi ont ete fondes par jabe sise fils de dinga, ancetre mythique des soninko, dinga selon nos sources, voyage beaucoup au yemen, aux indes, en palestine, dans la vallee du niger, au kingi, ou s'achevent ses peregrinations. Apres sa mort, jabe sise elimine terekine l'aine et va fonder kumbi et le wagadu, qui selon la tradition furent places sous la protection du bida. Au bida, il fallait sacrifier tous les ans une vierge, le python faisait pleuvoir apres. En fait, la tradition montre comment le groupe soninke, fondateur du wagadu, s'est forme. Elle s'appuie alors sur des mythes comme celui du bida, variante du mythe du faro des peuples de la vallee du niger. Mais l'epopee du wagadu fait aussi des emprunts au judaisme et a l'islam. Toutefois, elle a ses limites et ne traite pas de la protahistoire sominke. En effet, les soninko sont les descendants des gangari, qui apres la pejoration du climat, au post-neolithique se sont replies vers le sud et se sont meles a des groupes comme les bafours. De la vallee du niger vont arriver probablement d'autres hommes mais aussi des vivres le wagadu est donc ne sur les restes du riche neolithique des dhars, mais egalement des influences de la vallee du niger, qui au 3e siecle, avant j. C. Devrait deja commercer avec le nord. Ce n'est donc pas le commerce transsaharien qui est a l'origine de cet etat comme le pensaient beaucoup d'historiens.
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Sarbah, Emmanuel Kwabla. "Migration from Historic Mission churches to Pentecostal churches in Ghana." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78492.
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This thesis focuses on investigating and identifying the factors leading to the migration of members from Historic Mission churches to Pentecostal/Charismatic churches (PCCs) with emphasis on the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) using Ga and Dangme-Tongus Presbyteries as case studies. The advent of the Pentecostal/Charismatic churches in Ghana since the early twentieth Century has led to a slow growth in membership of Historic Mission churches.
Thus, this study involves quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Structured questionnaires were administered, and interviews conducted at selected districts in the two presbyteries with personal observation in order to unravel the phenomenon of migration in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. The findings of the research acknowledged that migration of members from PCG to PCCs is a reality. This has over the years led to slow growth in membership, human resource mobilization and finances of PCG. There are “push” and “pull” factors in PCG and PCCs respectively which accounts for this phenomenon.
The outcome of these findings requires that in order to develop individual gifts and ministries in the PCG, congregations should recognize, encourage and train members as disciples for the missional work of the Church. Thus, the lay will become the active components of the Church. PCG should give baptismal candidates the option to choose the type of baptism they prefer. This will resolve the issue of members migrating to Pentecostal/Charismatic churches to seek baptism by immersion. Furthermore, there is the need for youth services and youth pastors in all PCG congregations in order to bridge the existing generational gap. Ultimately, these will help curve a new image for the PCG as missional community in which members care and love one another, reaching out to the marginalised, the poor and the broken-hearted in the power of the Holy Spirit.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Pescheux, Gérard. "Parenté, pouvoir, histoire chez les Asante du Ghana : XVII-XXè siècles." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHESA055.
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Cette étude est centrée sur les relations entre la parenté, le pouvoir et l'histoire chez les Asante du Ghana entre XVIIe et XXe siècles. Les Asante émergent peu à peu comme un groupe distinct qui formera le royaume du même nom, mais des précédents ont fourni un modèle et exercé des influences sur la création de ce royaume. Au sein des Asante, les Oyoko allaient rapidement devenir dominants. Leur itinéraire géographique et politique est l'histoire de l'établissement de cette domination. Les interrogations se portent alors sur les conditions de l'émergence du royaume asante et sur la question de l'origine de l'Etat. Une analyse de la notion de personne chez les Asante et des modèles de parenté élaborés par Rattray et Meyer Fortes introduit une étude de chaque matriclan où sont abordés les ancêtres fondatrices, les mythes d'origine et récits de fondation, et les itinéraires de chacun d'entre eux. Une large place est consacrée au facteur patrilinéaire, la notion de ntoro qui relève de la parenté sans pour autant être réductible à celle-ci. Deux "traditions scientifiques" contradictoires proposent une théorie de l'origine des matriclans qui posent une série de questions sur la nature et le traitement des données ethnographiques mobilisées. De l'ancêtre fondatrice du lignage royal des Oyoko de Kumase à l'avènement de l'Asantehene Osei Tutu, c'est la constitution et la segmentarisation du lignage royal qui s'opèrent. Comme tout autre dynastie, l'histoire des Oyoko de Kumase est faite de respect du statu quo et de pérennisation d'intérêts particuliers, de crises et de conspirations. L'étude de cette histoire est la mise en perspective diachronique des poids relatifs de la matrilinéarité et du facteur patrilinéaire, de leur utilisation et manipulation, et de la dynamique des relations interpersonnelles à l'intérieur du lignage royal. Seule la complémentarité des questionnaires de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie permet de rendre compte de cette histoire en intégrant dans l'analyse les shèmes culturels propres à cette société.
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Chauvel, Clément. "Les paradoxes du bon élève : retour sur vingt ans d'ajustement au Ghana, 1983-2003." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0066.
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La thèse est une évaluation des politiques d'ajustement mises en place au Ghana depuis 1983. Elle cherche à savoir comment le « bon élève des institutions internationales » peut présenter un si maigre palmarès. La première partie retrace d'une manière dynamique le déroulement des mesures adoptées et montre que leur degré d'application a été important. La seconde partie propose un bilan des réformes par rapport aux objectifs visés, aux indicateurs du développement social, à l'évolution des autres pays du continent et aux résultats de l'ajustement couramment admis. Elle montre que le bilan de l'ajustement ghanéen se situe entre maigre succès et plein échec. La troisième partie recherche les causes de cet échec et met en avant trois éléments : le diagnostic préalable au lancement du programme était partiel, la stratégie s'est avérée incohérente et irréaliste par rapport au terrain, le décalage entre enjeux historiques et objectifs adoptés crée les conditions d'une dépossessionThe thesis is an assessment of Ghana's structural adjustment policies since 1983. It intends to understand how it is possible for "the good pupil of the IFIs" to encounter such disappointing results. The first part describes in the detail the reforms that were undertaken and shows that their degree of implementation has been great. The second part evaluates the policies according to their own objectives, to some social development indicators, to the other African countries and to the main findings of the academic research on adjustment. It shows that Ghana's results have ranged from meagre success to total failure. The third part looks into the causes of such a failure and stresses three points : the diagnosis that preceded the launching of the program was partial, the strategy proved itself inconsistent and unrealistic, the gap between historical stakes and adjustment policy's objectives has resulted in a dispossession
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Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.
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