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Duku, Berengar Irene, Obed Nii Broohm, and Elvis ResCue. "Exploring the semantic and pragmatic functions of modal auxiliaries: A case study of commencement speeches." Legon Journal of the Humanities 35, no. 1 (2024): 192–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v35i1.6.

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The use of modal auxiliaries in research articles and political speeches has been well investigated. The genre of commencement speeches, however, has yet to be investigated as far as the use of modal auxiliaries are concerned. In addressing the gap, the present study compares the usage of modal auxiliary verbs in commencement speeches of Ghanaian speakers with American speakers, and investigates the semantic contribution of the modal auxiliaries in the speeches. Additionally, the study also explores the speech act performed via the usage of the modal auxiliary verb and their pragmatic nuances in commencement speeches. The dataset for the study is a corpus of 51,447 words obtained from twelve (12) commencement speeches of the Ashesi University (in Ghana) and twelve (12) highly ranked American Universities. The study employed AntConc 4.0 to generate the instances of modal auxiliary usage in the data. Leech’s (2004) theory of modal auxiliary meaning and Searle’s (1969) Speech Act Theory were employed to identify modal meanings and speech acts performed in the speeches. The study highlights the vital role of modal auxiliaries and speech acts in encoding actions that speech acts inspire within the Ghanaian and American contexts. These include the can-do attitude of Ghanaians, on the one hand, and the need-to-cherish-family and keep close ties attitude of the Americans, on the other hand. The results show that relatively speaking, American commencement speeches employ more modal auxiliaries than Ghanaian commencement speeches.

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Guedj, Pauline. "La transnacionalización de la religión akan: religión e identidad entre la comunidad afroamericana de EE. UU." Atlántida Revista Canaria de Ciencias Sociales, no. 13 (2022): 39–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.atlantid.2022.13.03.

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In 1965, Gus Dinizulu, an African American percussionist, traveled to Ghana with the dance company he was leading. There, he took the trip as an opportunity to explore his African roots and met Nana Oparebea, the Ghanaian chief-priestess of the Akonedi Shrine, north of Accra. She performed for Dinizulu a divination, during which she explained that his enslaved ancestors were part of the akan people of Ghana and gave him the mission to search for other African Americans who, like him, were of Ghanaian ancestries. She also offered him a set of altars, containing the spiritual forces of the deities revered in the Akonedi Shrine and asked him to import in the United States what was then labelled the akan religion. The aim of this paper will be to describe the process of diffusion, importation, transnationalization and indigenization of the akan religion between West Africa and the East Coast of the United States.

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Norris, Katharine G., Phoebe A. Huang, J. Christopher Glantz, Ruth-Sally Kodam, and Martina Anto-Ocrah. "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Antenatal Healthcare-Seeking Behaviors in Ghana and the United States." Journal of Patient Experience 8 (January 2021): 237437352110623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735211062392.

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impacted healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we conducted qualitative interviews with pregnant women in Ghana and the United States (US) to understand their antenatal care (ANC) experience. Adapting to the virtual nature of the pandemic, social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp were used to recruit, consent, enroll, and interview women. Interviewers used a semi-structured guide with content validated by the US and Ghanaian collaborators. Audio recordings of the interviews were transcribed, coded using Dedoose (v8.0.35, Dedoose) and grounded theory, and analyzed for recurring themes. Between May and July 2020, 32 women (15 Ghanaians, 17 Americans), aged 25–40 years were interviewed. Major themes emerged: (i) apprehension about ANC services; (ii) disruptions to planned healthcare provider use; and (iii) changes in social support. Although the women strove to retain their ANC as planned, the pandemic universally caused several unanticipated changes. Given associations between higher maternal mortality and poor outcomes with inadequate ANC, specific policies and resources for telehealth education and intra- and postpartum support should be implemented to reduce disruptions to ANC imposed by COVID-19.

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Kumi-Yeboah, Alex. "The Multiple Worlds of Ghanaian-Born Immigrant Students and Academic Success." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 120, no. 9 (2018): 1–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811812000908.

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Background/Context The multiple worlds model is defined as the ability of students to connect, manage, and negotiate to cross the borders of their two worlds to successfully transition through different everyday worlds of school, family, and peers. Prior research has linked multiple worlds such as school, teacher, family, and peers to the academic success of immigrant students. However, there is a dearth of research about how Ghanaian-born immigrant youth (African-born immigrant youth) integrate the experiences surrounding their multiple worlds of families, schools, peers, and teachers in their daily lives to affect academic achievement. Purpose/Objectives/ Research/Focus of Study This qualitative study explores the factors associated with immigrant students from Ghana to strategize how to combine their multiple worlds of families, schools, peers, and teachers to affect academic engagement within contexts of school and classroom situations. Another aim was to was to explore teachers’ perception and understanding of the sociocultural and past educational experiences of immigrant students from Ghana. I analyzed two interviews (face-to-face and focus group) transcripts (students and teachers). Population/Participants/Subjects Forty Ghanaian-born immigrant students and 10 certified teachers in the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan area were recruited and interviewed. I interviewed 40 students (n = 23 male and n = 17 female) in 10th grade (8 students), 11th grade (20 students) and 12th grade (12 students) and 10 teachers including 4 Whites, 2 African Americans, 3 Latino/as, and 1 Biracial. Research Design The study used a qualitative research design by using open-ended semi-structured and focus group interviews in which the participants were comfortable in the interviews. With the assistance of the Ghanaian Immigrant Association in Atlanta and the school district, I sampled for Ghanaian-born immigrant students (students who were born in Ghana with one or two African-born parents and who migrated to the U.S.) and teachers to participate in the study. All data from semistructured and focus group interviews were transcribed and analyzed to address the research questions of the study. Findings/Results The study findings revealed seven emergent themes: desire to succeed in school, managing two worlds and relationships with teachers and peers in the classroom, crossing boundaries with educational opportunities, managing transitions in school, and the role of parents. Conclusions and Recommendations The findings suggest that Ghanaian-born immigrant students undergo several complex transitional paradigms combining two worlds of African culture, education, family values, learning new cultures, and adapting to new school settings to achieve success in American educational systems. Overall, Ghanaian-born immigrant students developed strategies to manage two worlds in school, which shaped their perspectives and helped them to cross boundaries as stipulated in the students’ multiple worlds model. Therefore, it is important that teachers, educators, and school administrators understand the social, cultural, and educational backgrounds of these immigrant students as not much is written about them with regards to their transition to schools in the United States educational system.

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Rivers, Natasha M. "No Longer Sojourners: The Complexities of Racial Ethnic Identity, Gender, and Generational Outcomes for Sub-Saharan Africans in the USA." International Journal of Population Research 2012 (May 14, 2012): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/973745.

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Through individual and group testimonies from newly arrived, 1.5 and second generation sub-Saharan Africans (For this study sub-Saharan African refers to the countries located under Northern African countries, for example, Egypt and Morocco and, includes South Africa. There are over 50 countries represented by this region; however, the most populous groups from this region in Africa in the USA are Nigerian, Ethiopian, Kenyan, Liberian, Ghanaian, Cape Verdean, South African, and Somalian.), the diversity and complexity linked to their migration and integration experiences in the USA reveal that there is a gendered and generational element to their self identity. These elements are compounded by perceptions of being African American in a racialized society and deciding whether or not to stay connected to Africa, a continent that needs their financial, political, and social resources accumulated in the USA These “new” African Americans expand the definition of blackness in the USA. Many have created a transnational relationship to Africa and the USA, which provides important implications for Africa’s potential “brain gain” as well as socioeconomic, infrastructural, and political development.

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Delpino, Gaia. "Building Up Belonging: Diasporic “Homecomers”, the Ghanaian Government and Traditional Rulers: A Case of Return." African Diaspora 4, no. 2 (2011): 163–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254611x606409.

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AbstractThis essay analyzes the political dynamics involved in the construction of belonging in the case of African Americans’ “return” from the diaspora generated by the Atlantic slave trade to a town in Southern Ghana. Given the articulated belief of common ancestral origins, such arrival was initially welcomed by all the three groups of actors involved: thereturnees, the local authorities, divided by a chieftaincy dispute, and the Ghanaian government that was supporting homecoming policies. The concepts of origins and kinship and the way to validate them, though, were differently conceived by the various political actors; furthermore each of them held dissimilar reasons and had different expectations behind this return. All these differences created a mutual, mutable and dynamic relation between the actors who were involved in the arrival and aimed to assert their authority.

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Witek, Maria A. G., Jingyi Liu, John Kuubertzie, Appiah Poku Yankyera, Senyo Adzei, and Peter Vuust. "A Critical Cross-cultural Study of Sensorimotor and Groove Responses to Syncopation Among Ghanaian and American University Students and Staff." Music Perception 37, no. 4 (2020): 278–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2020.37.4.278.

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The pleasurable desire to move to a beat is known as groove and is partly explained by rhythmic syncopation. While many contemporary groove-directed genres originated in the African diaspora, groove music psychology has almost exclusively studied European or North American listeners. While cross-cultural approaches can help us understand how different populations respond to music, comparing African and Western musical behaviors has historically tended to rely on stereotypes. Here we report on two studies in which sensorimotor and groove responses to syncopation were measured in university students and staff from Cape Coast, Ghana and Williamstown, MA, United States. In our experimental designs and interpretations, we show sensitivity towards the ethical implications of doing cross-cultural research in an African context. The Ghanaian group showed greater synchronization precision than Americans during monophonic syncopated patterns, but this was not reflected in synchronization accuracy. There was no significant group difference in the pleasurable desire to move. Our results have implications for how we understand the relationship between exposure and synchronization, and how we define syncopation in cultural and musical contexts. We hope our critical approach to cross-cultural comparison contributes to developing music psychology into a more inclusive and culturally grounded field.

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Oostindie, Gert. "The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism: the Netherlands, Ghana, and the rediscovery of Atlantic slavery." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (2005): 55–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-90002501.

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Reflects upon the commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery. Author describes how the slave trade and slavery was recently "rediscovered", as a part of Dutch history, and he compares this to the attention to this history in other European countries once engaging in slavery. He argues that despite the fact that the history of the slave trade and slavery is worthy of attention in itself, contemporary political and social factors mainly influence attention to the slave trade and slavery, noting that in countries with larger Afro-Caribbean minority groups the attention to this past is greater than in other once slave-trading countries. He further deplores the lack of academic accuracy on the slave trade and slavery in slavery commemorations and in the connected search for African roots among descendants of slaves, and illustrates this by focusing on the role of Ghana, and the slave fortress Elmina there, as this fortress also has become a much visited tourist site by Afro-Americans. According to him, this made for some that Ghana represents the whole of Africa, while African slaves in the Caribbean, also in the Dutch colonies, came from various parts of Africa. Author attributes this selectivity in part to the relatively large Ghanaian community in the Netherlands.

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Oostindie, Gert. "The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism: the Netherlands, Ghana, and the rediscovery of Atlantic slavery." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (2008): 55–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002501.

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Reflects upon the commemoration of the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery. Author describes how the slave trade and slavery was recently "rediscovered", as a part of Dutch history, and he compares this to the attention to this history in other European countries once engaging in slavery. He argues that despite the fact that the history of the slave trade and slavery is worthy of attention in itself, contemporary political and social factors mainly influence attention to the slave trade and slavery, noting that in countries with larger Afro-Caribbean minority groups the attention to this past is greater than in other once slave-trading countries. He further deplores the lack of academic accuracy on the slave trade and slavery in slavery commemorations and in the connected search for African roots among descendants of slaves, and illustrates this by focusing on the role of Ghana, and the slave fortress Elmina there, as this fortress also has become a much visited tourist site by Afro-Americans. According to him, this made for some that Ghana represents the whole of Africa, while African slaves in the Caribbean, also in the Dutch colonies, came from various parts of Africa. Author attributes this selectivity in part to the relatively large Ghanaian community in the Netherlands.

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Osei, K., and D. P. Schuster. "Metabolic characteristics of African descendants: a comparative study of African-Americans and Ghanaian immigrants using minimal model analysis." Diabetologia 38, no. 9 (1995): 1103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001250050398.

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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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Lomotey, Jemima Naa Adoley Ankamah. "A comparison of Ghanaian work ethic in American Multinational Companies and Ghanaian Companies in Ghana." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10172747.

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<p> A mixed methods sequential explanatory design was used to conduct research to help fill the gap in the literature on cross-cultural differences between Ghanaian workers in American Multinational Companies and Ghanaian Companies in Ghana. The purpose of this research was to identify, compare, and make understandable to multinational companies the work ethic of Ghanaian workers in issues related to centrality of work, leisure, and morality/ethics. In the quantitative phase, using a stratified random sampling approach, 300 participants completed surveys on work ethic. The results were analyzed using SPSS software package. The qualitative phase followed with interview of 30 purposively sampled participants on work ethics. The results were coded, organized, and categorized using NVivo. The findings did not support the perceptions held by American Multinational Companies that Ghanaians have a poor work ethic, are lazy, and love pleasure. In contrast, the study results indicated that Ghanaian worker ethics included working hard to achieve a goal, doing voluntary work, meeting deadlines; having good relationships with peers, subordinates, and superiors. The results also indicated Ghanaian workers in USA companies exhibit a set of work ethics different from the Ghanaians working in Ghanaian companies, self-employed, and not employed. The results of this research were significant at 98% confidence level and are generalizable to settings that have similar cultural exposé as Ghana, considering the differences noted which were mainly cultural based.</p>

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Adu, Gyamfi Vesta Elizabeth. "The integration of Ghanaian traditional pottery and American contemporary ceramics /." Online version of thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11516.

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Mortoti, Prudence Barbara. "Acoustic Characteristics that Contribute to Ghanaian Ewe-Accented American English." Thesis, Arkansas State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10976109.

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<p> This study investigated the acoustic characteristics that contribute to the perception of foreign-accentedness of English spoken by native Ewe speakers. Forty monosyllabic words spoken by four speakers were rated on accentedness by 109 participants; 51 with exposure to Ghanaian-accented-American English and 58 with none. The ratings and measurements of F1 and F2 values of the vowels were analyzed and compared. The results suggest that the perception of accentedness was influenced by the acoustic properties of vowels. Listeners rated L2 speakers as more accented than they did L1 speakers. Accentedness ratings did not correlate with comprehension of words, and finally, listeners with previous exposure to Ewe accented American English rated the non-native tokens as less accented than listeners without previous exposure. Previous exposure did not influence comprehension of tokens.</p><p>

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Asuo-Mante, Eric K. "Ghanaian Immigrants in United States: American Dreams, a Shattered Heaven, & Racism." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1529.

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Thesis advisor: Sarah Babb<br>Thesis advisor: Eve Spangler<br>In recent years, African immigrants have become a large and growing segment of the American population. Like most migrants in the United States these travelers seek to attain the American Dream; they therefore mostly journey to the U.S. in the hope of bettering their lives as well as their family relations back home in Africa. But despite the continually increasing African demography in America, there is a lack of literature on the experience of African immigrants in the United States. This research is an ethnographic study of a sole group of African immigrants in America: Ghanaian migrants. This paper focuses on learning about the life experiences of these settlers before and after they migrate to the United States. Questions that this research addresses include: Why do these migrants journey to the U.S.? What ideas do these immigrants have about the U.S. before migrating to this nation? After arriving in America do their preconceived ideas change or remain the same? How do the Ghanaian migrants change their life to adapt to the American culture? What are their views about American culture and life in the U.S.?<br>Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2010<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Sociology

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Taah, Kingsley Joseph. "Clonal propagation and molecular characterisation of Ghanaian avocado pear (Persea americana Mill) germplasm." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490995.

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Avocado pear was first introduced to Ghana in 1750 from Mexico. Several introductions have subsequently been made to encourage commercial cultivation of the crop. To date, however, the crop is still cultivated on subsistence level due mainly to the absence of certified nurseries to provide certified high yielding planting materials to potential avocado farmers. Seeds are the major planting materials but fruits produced from seeds are not true-to-type because of the heterozygous nature of the crop. A successful clonal propagation protocol would be used to mass produce true-to-type high quality cultivars for distribution to farmers to encourage commercial cultivation of the crop in Ghana.

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Greco, Mitchell J. "THE EMIC AND ETIC TEACHING PERSPECTIVES OF TRADITIONAL GHANAIAN DANCE-DRUMMING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GHANAIAN AND AMERICAN MUSIC COGNITION AND THE TRANSMISSION PROCESS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398073851.

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Musah, Adam A. "Barriers to Healthcare Access for Members of the Bronx Ghanaian Immigrant Muslim Community in New York City." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1149.

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Cultural beliefs on healthcare in the 21st century by the African immigrants in the United States have contributed to the severity of illnesses in their communities. The results of this research identified the healthcare barriers experienced by members of the Bronx Ghanaian Immigrant Muslim Community (BGIMC) in New York City. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of education, immigration status, health insurance status, and cultural beliefs on the BGIMC members' perceived access and willingness to use healthcare services for various ailments. A sample of 156 male and female members of the BGIMC completed the survey questionnaire. The study was grounded in the conceptual frameworks of critical theory and complexity theory. The results of logistic and linear multiple regressions indicated that those with insurance were 9 times more likely to report that they had access to healthcare than those who did not have insurance. Additionally, those with health insurance were almost 7 times more likely to report using healthcare services in the past 12 months. Results of the multiple linear regressions indicated that immigration status, health insurance status, and education levels did not predict willingness to use healthcare when an arm was broken, nor did they predict willingness to use healthcare for a severe fever. However, immigration status, health insurance status, and education levels did predict willingness to use healthcare when experiencing dizziness. Understanding the social and cultural factors related to use of health care services will lead to tailored health insurance and access initiatives for the BGIMC; this increased understanding will also promote positive social change in their community and serve as a model for other African communities in the United States.

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Musah, Adam A. "Barriers to Healthcare Access for Members of the Bronx Ghanaian Immigrant Muslim Community in New York City." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3633656.

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<p> Cultural beliefs on healthcare in the 21st century by the African immigrants in the United States have contributed to the severity of illnesses in their communities. The results of this research identified the healthcare barriers experienced by members of the Bronx Ghanaian Immigrant Muslim Community (BGIMC) in New York City. The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of education, immigration status, health insurance status, and cultural beliefs on the BGIMC members' perceived access and willingness to use healthcare services for various ailments. A sample of 156 male and female members of the BGIMC completed the survey questionnaire. The study was grounded in the conceptual frameworks of critical theory and complexity theory. The results of logistic and linear multiple regressions indicated that those with insurance were 9 times more likely to report that they had access to healthcare than those who did not have insurance. Additionally, those with health insurance were almost 7 times more likely to report using healthcare services in the past 12 months. Results of the multiple linear regressions indicated that immigration status, health insurance status, and education levels did not predict willingness to use healthcare when an arm was broken, nor did they predict willingness to use healthcare for a severe fever. However, immigration status, health insurance status, and education levels did predict willingness to use healthcare when experiencing dizziness. Understanding the social and cultural factors related to use of health care services will lead to tailored health insurance and access initiatives for the BGIMC; this increased understanding will also promote positive social change in their community and serve as a model for other African communities in the United States.</p>

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Flournoy, Khadisha. "An Investigation of the Challenges Faced By Ghanaian International Students in the American Higher Education System| A Phenomenological Multi-Case Study." Thesis, Roosevelt University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10975416.

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<p> This research study sought to investigate and explain the perceptions and experiences of Ghanaian international students in the American higher education system. Four subjects enrolled at different higher education institutions in the USA participated in the study. The participants were selected based on the following four criteria: (a) they were Ghanaian international students; (b) they were 18 years of age or older; (c) they had successfully completed two years or more of post-secondary education in the USA; (d) and they were proficient in the English language. Three research questions guided the study: What are the perceptions of Ghanaian international students regarding their experiences in a higher educational institution in the USA? What factors influence these perceptions? What are the specific ways that Ghanaian international students negotiate the challenges of the American higher education system? A qualitative methodology and case study research design was utilized to collect data. Critical race theory, phenomenological theory, postcolonial identity theory, and intersectionality theory provided the theoretical framework for the study. Data collected from the 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews, researcher’s observations, and a researcher’s reflective journal, were coded using both open and axial codes. Thematic analysis was done vertically for each participant and across all participants’ responses. These codes were then categorized into themes and subthemes. Five themes emerged from the data analysis and these included: acculturation challenges, economic concerns, weak institutional support system, visa issues, and geography. Key influences included nationality, ethnicity, family background, religion, socioeconomic status, personality, and prior foreign travel experiences. Social networking and creating personal support systems appeared to be the most common coping strategies employed by participants. The limitations of this study included the small number of participants and the institutional type, among other factors. The implications and recommendations regarding future research are included. </p><p>

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Books on the topic "Ghanaian Americans"

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Attah-Poku, Agyemang. The socio-cultural adjustment question: The role of Ghanaian immigrant ethnic associations in America. Avebury, 1996.

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Attah-Poku, Agyemang. The socio-cultural adjustment question: The role of Ghanaian immigrant ethnic associations in America. Avebury, 1996.

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Edu-Bekoe, Yaw Attah. Scattered Africans keep gathering: A case study of diaspora missiology on Ghanaian migration and Protestant congregations in the U.S.A. Missiological Society of Ghana, 2018.

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Ross, Doran H. Wrapped in pride: Ghanaian kente and African American identity. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1998.

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Ayisi, Eric O. Betrayal: An American paradox. Pentland Press, 2001.

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Anorbaah, Anneisha. Love, Peace, and Passion. Practice Makes Perfect, 2016.

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Bekoe, Anastasia. Society's "Expectations". [TORCH, National Institute for Reproductive Health], 2014.

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Oforiwaa, Yaa. The wisdom of the ages: Themes & essences of truth, love, struggle, and high-culture in the works of Ayi Kwei Armah and Kiarri T-H. Cheatwood. Native Sun, 1995.

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Jacko Jacobus. Peepal Tree Press, 1996.

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Kirby, Jon P. A North American's guide to Ghanaian English. Tamale Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghanaian Americans"

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Sealey, Beverly C. "Self-Perceptions of Relations with Parents, Attitudes Toward School, and Delinquency Among African-American, Caribbean American, and Ghanaian Adolescents." In Vulnerable Children. Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6780-9_7.

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Adjepong, Anima. "The Christian America Afropolitan Project." In Afropolitan Projects. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665191.003.0003.

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Chapter two discusses how the idea of Christian America allows Ghanaians in Houston to claim cultural citizenship to the United States. Christianity here is framed as a religion that connects and affirms Ghanaians’ claims to belonging as US Americans. Perceiving the United States as a Christian nation affirms the belongingness of Ghanaians who identify themselves as also coming from a Christian country. The colonial missionary project that Christianized Ghana further articulates Christianity as a marker of modernity, global citizenship, and progress. The Christian America Afropolitan Project explores the cultural work that Ghanaians in Houston engage to assert their inclusion within the United States body politic. The author also examines how Christianity is used to justify Islamophobic and homophobic sentiments within the community.

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"9. Rosemond Reimmer: Ghanaian-American." In Chosen Shore. University of California Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520937468-012.

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Shankar, Shobana. "Hinduism’s Black Atlantic itinerary." In An Uneasy Embrace. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197619407.003.0006.

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This chapter explores how, since the 1970s, Ghanaians and Nigerians have found Indian religions to be attractive alternatives to Christianity and Islam and similar to African indigenous religions. They have also questioned religious orthodoxies, including casteism, Brahminism, purity taboos, and gender hierarchies. The Ghanaian-led Hindu Monastery of Africa features the first African Hindu monk Ghanananda to become a guru to African and Indian disciples. Another example is the American-origin Hare Krishna Movement (ISKCON). African exploration of Hinduism has allowed new Indian migrants from South India to Africa to openly celebrate religious rituals emphasizing folk practices and sexually ambiguous deities rejected by high-caste Hinduism. These new Indian migrants to West Africa embrace more social and cultural intercourse with Africans than earlier Indian diasporas did. These vibrant scenes are the little-recognized background for cultural dissent, anti-racism, and anti-casteism.

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Osumare, Halifu. "Dancing in Africa." In Dancing in Blackness. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056616.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 records the author’s bold move to Ghana, West Africa for nine months to study and research the basis of black dance in the Americas. She studies the curriculum of the School of Music, Dance, and Drama (SMDD) at the University of Ghana, Legon, under the ethnomusicologist Dr. Kwabena Nketia and the dance ethnologist Professor Albert Opoku. She examines the development of the internationally touring Ghana Dance Ensemble. She also explores her personal relationships with other African Americans and Ghanaians to further interrogate race and blackness from the point of view of living in West Africa. She reminisces about how her dance fieldwork in five regions of Ghana and her excursion to Togo and Nigeria broadened her perspective on herself as African American in Africa.

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Harris, Harold R. "9 Perspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans." In The United States and West Africa. Boydell and Brewer, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781580467513-011.

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Stanley, Brian. "Migrant Churches." In Christianity in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196848.003.0016.

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This chapter assesses how migratory trajectories in the twentieth century became channels of transmission of southern or eastern styles of Christianity to urban locations in the northern and western hemispheres, so that Latino/a, Chinese, Korean, and—rather later—African churches became for the first time highly visible elements enriching the tapestry of Christian life in North America and Europe. Some of these transmitted Christianities were very ancient—such as the Assyrian Church of the East. Other varieties of migrant Christianity were of much more recent origin. Those that have attracted most contemporary scholarly interest were Pentecostal in character. These include the older black Pentecostal churches that were established in Britain in the decade or so after the arrival in Britain in June of 1948 of the Empire Windrush, the first immigrant ship that transported 492 settlers from Jamaica. From the 1980s onwards, on both sides of the Atlantic, they also included African neo-Pentecostal churches, mostly of Nigerian or Ghanaian provenance. The rapid growth of West African neo-Pentecostal churches in European and American cities since the 1980s has been the subject of a host of recent sociological studies concerned to elucidate the leading role of these churches in the fashioning and sustaining of corporate identities within African migrant communities.

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Alex-Assensoh, Yvette, and A. B. Assensoh. "The Politics of Cross-Cultural Marriage: An Examination of a Ghanaian/African-American Case." In Cross-Cultural Marriage. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003136101-6.

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Pineda, Erin R. "An Entire World in Motion." In Seeing Like an Activist. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197526422.003.0003.

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This chapter develops an alternative framework for understanding the civil disobedience of civil rights activists: as a decolonizing praxis that linked their dissent to that of anticolonial activists and tied the context of Jim Crow to global white supremacy. If the constitutional, democratic state formed the normative horizon for liberal understandings of civil disobedience, activists’ horizon was defined by processes of imaginative transit—the process of thinking and traveling across boundaries and disparate contexts, through which activists in motion constructed civil disobedience as a means of transforming worldwide structures of racist imperialism, colonial rule, apartheid, and Jim Crow. Between 1920 and 1960, African American, Indian, South African, and Ghanaian activists proposed, debated, and wielded nonviolent direct action as a means of self-liberation from white supremacy’s structures of fear and violence, and way of disrupting and transforming the practices that held those structures in place.

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Osumare, Halifu, and Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu. "Globalization and the Hip Hop Dance Cipher." In The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190247867.013.25.

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Abstract Hip hop dance was the first of the culture’s elements around the globe, becoming a complex bodily text. We investigate the internationalization of Hip Hop dance in Hawai‘i and Ghana, with the cipher as a site for reinforcing and subverting local traditions and social orders. “Performance” is the transference of accepted American Hip Hop dance lexicons, while “performativity” encompasses local indigenous styles. The two mingle and transform during improvisation within the cipher, creating an Intercultural Body. Hawai‘i dance clubs offer a variety of styles from freestyle “house” to traditional breaking, reflecting the multicultural Asian-Polynesian mix of the islands. Ghanaian dance ciphers deconstruct the social complexities of a poor African country, while reinforcing traditional war dance elements of several ethnic groups. The global Hip Hop dance cipher is a microcosm of international forces, as US Hip Hop is exported and local sites grapple with imitation and adaptation to create their own reinscribed frameworks and meanings.

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Conference papers on the topic "Ghanaian Americans"

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Dubowski, K., K. P. Asante, A. Vicencio, et al. "Infant Respiratory Microbiome Subphenotypes and Early Childhood Lung Function: Evidence from a Rural Ghanaian Prospective Pregnancy Cohort (GRAPHS)." In American Thoracic Society 2020 International Conference, May 15-20, 2020 - Philadelphia, PA. American Thoracic Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_meetingabstracts.a4617.

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Burton, Nicole T., Audrey Forson, Mark Lurie, Samuel Kudzawu, Ernest Kwarteng, and Awewura Kwara. "Factors Associated With All-Cause Mortality Among Adult Patients With Tuberculosis Attending A Ghanaian Teaching Hospital Chest Clinic." In American Thoracic Society 2011 International Conference, May 13-18, 2011 • Denver Colorado. American Thoracic Society, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2011.183.1_meetingabstracts.a1847.

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Blazer, Ashira, Ida Dzifa Dey, Margret Reynolds, Festus Ankrah, Jill Buyon, and Robert Clancy. "GG-02 Apolipoprotein L1 risk variants associate with increased SLE damage independent of inflammation in ghanaian SLE patients." In LUPUS 21ST CENTURY 2018 CONFERENCE, Abstracts of the Fourth Biannual Scientific Meeting of the North and South American and Caribbean Lupus Community, Armonk, New York, USA, September 13 – 15, 2018. Lupus Foundation of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2018-lsm.89.

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