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Journal articles on the topic "Ghanaian Arts"

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van Dijk, Rijk. "Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana." Africa 73, no. 4 (2003): 560–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2003.73.4.560.

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AbstractThis contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article examines anthropological understandings of such sentiments by placing them in the context of the study of nationalisms in processes of state formation in Africa and the way in which these ideologies reflect the position and recognition of minorities. In Botswana, identity politics indulge in a liberalist democratic rhetoric in which an undifferentiated citizenship is promoted by the state, concealing on the one hand inequalities between the various groups in the country, but on the other hand defending the exclusive interests of all ‘Batswana’ against foreign influence through the enactment of what has become known as a ‘localisation policy'. Like many other nationalities, Ghanaian expatriate labour has increasingly become the object of localisation policies. However in their case xenophobic sentiments have taken on unexpected dimensions. By focusing on the general public's fascination with Ghanaian fashion and styles of beautification, the numerous hair salons and clothing boutiques Ghanaians operate, in addition to the newly emerging Ghanaian-led Pentecostal churches in the city, the ambiguous but ubiquitous play of repulsion and attraction can be demonstrated in the way in which localisation is perceived and experienced by the migrant as well as by the dominant groups in society. The article concludes by placing entrepreneurialism at the nexus of where this play of attraction and repulsion creates a common ground of understanding between Ghanaians and their host society, despite the government's hardening localisation policies.
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Ocran, Francisca M., Xiaofen Ji, and Liling Cai. "A Case Study on Factors Influencing Online Apparel Consumption and Satisfaction between China and Ghana." Asian Social Science 15, no. 12 (2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v15n12p38.

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The study explores and compares the influence of perceived online shopping benefits namely convenience, pricing, and wider selection towards online satisfaction between China and Ghana. It also seeks to explore the factors that motivate individuals to shop online. Further, the problem(s) faced by both countries in shopping online is examined. Descriptive analysis, correlation, Anova and regression analysis were used in assessing and comparing consumers’ online experience. It was found that there is a high prevalent rate (97.5%) of online apparel shopping among Chinese and Ghanaian respondents where the prevalent rate of patronizing online apparel was relatively higher among Chinese youth than the Ghanaian. Convenience, internet usage proficiency and easy access to internet were the main factors that facilitates online apparel shopping among the respondents. Level of income makes the difference in rate online apparel patronization between Chinese and the Ghanaian. On the contrary, level of income, Trust, and Privacy and confidentiality of personal information were found as challenges discourages Ghanaians online apparel consumers likewise Chinese consumers.
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CASEY, JOANNA. ":Ghanaian Video Tales." American Anthropologist 109, no. 3 (2007): 543–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.3.543.

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Jenkins, Paul. "Frederick Grant, Ghanaian Photographer." African Arts 49, no. 1 (2016): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00266.

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Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Magnus, Jeff D. Grischow, and Nicole Stocco. "Cloak of Invisibility: A Literature Review of Physical Disability in Ghana." SAGE Open 10, no. 1 (2020): 215824401990056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244019900567.

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This literature review surveys the state of current scholarship on physical disability in Ghana. The intention is to identify major themes and opinions relating to the challenges faced by Ghanaians with physical disabilities. After an extensive literature review, the authors selected 21 articles for inclusion based on the criteria that they had to focus on physical disability in a Ghanaian setting. Reviewing the articles revealed that most scholars have focused on the pervasive oppression of Ghanaians with physical disabilities. Six major topic areas emerged, including the experience of the disability rights movement from the 1990s to the present, the public perception of people with physical disabilities, the issue of families and abuse, the rights to education, challenges around employment and finances, and health care for disabled Ghanaians. This literature review presents these topics, discusses their implications, and makes suggestions for further research and action to improve human rights for Ghanaians with physical disabilities.
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Adinku, Grace Uchechukwu. "Dipo: The Krobo Ghanaian Puberty Rite and Art." Matatu 48, no. 2 (2016): 450–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04802013.

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The girl child’s transition from childhood to adulthood, Dipo, is of prime importance in the development of the Krobo community of Ghana. The transition acknowledges the part women play in the welfare of society; hence the performance of elaborate puberty rites for girls. The performance of Dipo puberty rites is therefore regarded as a means of unifying teenage women in their social role and integrating the arts of the Krobo people. Furthermore, it reveals the significance of these different art forms in the life of the Krobo people and in Dipo performance in particular. The problem, however, is that although there are several artistic elements embedded in the performance of Dipo, they have not been documented as art forms; nor have they constituteded a site for critical discussion and appraisal of Ghanaian performing arts. Early historical and anthropological scholarship on Dipo almost completely overlooks these artistic elements. This essay responds to this critical gap by situating Dipo in the context of these artifacts as displayed in multiple phases of ritual ‘installation’ performance. This essay also identifies and examines the specific artistic elements featuring in the rite in order to highlight their embeddedness in and significance to the Krobo people, and, by extension, Ghana. The artistic elements in Dipo include ritualized visual, verbal, body, and theatrical elements, all of which are active and inseparable in the rites. As such, these art forms are analysed and discussed by means of figures and plates, which confirm visually their existence, aesthetic significance, and cultural value.
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Ayiku, Robert. "Symbolic Meanings in the Ghanaian Arts: A Step Towards Developing Cultural Literacy." Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers in Art Education 14, no. 1 (1997): 2–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/2326-7070.1300.

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Dei, George S. "Deforestation in a Ghanaian Rural Community." Anthropologica 32, no. 1 (1990): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25605556.

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Elder, D. Rose, Nathan Crook, Jessica Crook, and Kayla Walls. "Celebrating African Arts: How Traditional Leader Stories, Narratives, and Proverbs Inform Contemporary Ghanaian Life." International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts 14, no. 3 (2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/cgp/v14i03/1-17.

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Dei, George J. S. "Crisis and Adaptation in a Ghanaian Forest Community." Anthropological Quarterly 61, no. 2 (1988): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3317157.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ghanaian Arts"

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Ayiku, Robert Kingsley. "Symbolic meanings in the Ghanaian arts, a step towards developing cultural literacy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0017/NQ43588.pdf.

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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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Oduro-Frimpong, Joseph. "Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/579.

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How do popular media genres reinforce or provide alternative perspectives to circulating official political discourses, as well as articulate issues of social concern? In what ways do such media offer insights into aspects of cultural practices that inform and represent matters of key significance in people's quotidian lives? This dissertation investigates these two general questions within four distinct Ghanaian popular visual media genres: popular video-films, political cartoons, death announcement posters, and vehicle inscriptions (`mottonyms'). Regarding the Ghanaian popular video-films, I examine how the films (re)present the issue of cyberfraud (`sakawa') in Ghana. I contrast the films' (re)presentation of this phenomenon vis-a-vis that of certain official pronouncements on the issue, and argue that a critical approach to the `sakawa film series' reveals a robust counter discourse to official denunciations. My investigation of political cartoons, examines some of the works of the artist Akosua in the Ghanaian newspaper, Daily Guide. Here I focus on how Akosua's works, utilizing popular cultural allusions, function as an alternative media discourse in contemporary Ghanaian sociopolitical debates. As regards the death-announcement posters, I investigate how, situated as they are within certain well-known Ghanaian cultural values and practices, including funerary caskets, these posters remediate these cultural mores in the context of rapid social change. Lastly, regarding the mottonyms, I explore, through interviews with vehicle owners, the interactions between specific life experiences that spurred them to coin these inscriptions and the cultural fabric within which they have done so. Conceptually, this dissertation draws not only from cultural anthropology and its subfields of visual culture, and religion, media and culture, but also significantly from global/international media studies and from emergent works on African cultural and media studies. The harnessing of interdisciplinary conceptual frameworks, such as phenomenological and social constructionist approaches, to interrogate Ghanaian popular visual media in this dissertation advances our current thinking in the above-mentioned fields in several ways. For example, the social constructionist (Lee-Hurwitz 1995; Morgan 2005) and phenomenological approaches (Langsdorf, 1994; Lanigan 1998) that guide the investigation of vehicle inscriptions and death-announcement posters reveal purposeful intentionality in human communication. Furthermore, this dissertation, with its focus on popular video-films, press cartoons, death-announcement posters and vehicle inscriptions concretely elucidates recent expansive theorizations of `media'. Here `media' is understood as practices of mediation (de Vries 2001; Meyer 2003; Zito 2008), and broadly conceived to transcend narrowly defined traditional mass media formats (Downing 1996). In the latter case, I advocate for global/international media scholars to begin to pay equal `field service' to popular media artifacts within the current ambit of the `practice paradigm' in global/international media studies (Postill 2010:4; Couldry 2004).
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Awadzi, Raymond K. "Entrenching African Pentecostalism in the United States of America: A Study of a Ghanaian Founded Charismatic Church in South Florida." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2475.

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For the past three decades, there has been a rapid growth of African Pentecostal Christianity on America’s Christian religious scene. In general, researchers in Christian mission studies have concluded that the flow of Christian religious currents from Africa and other Third World countries to the West is something of a Christian mission in reverse process. Using agency and invention of tradition as the theoretical leads, this study explores the roles lay immigrants played in the rooting of the Christian Restoration Ministries International (CRMI), a Ghanaian founded charismatic church, in Miami, as a case study of how African Pentecostal churches originate in America. The study also shows how the Christian Restoration Ministries International (CRMI), practices an invented version of Ghanaian Pentecostalism. The study is field-work based. It concludes that the so called reverse mission thrives on the crucial roles of lay African migrant worshipers and their inventiveness.
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Beckwin, Deborah. "In Double Exile: A Memoir." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6243.

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In Double Exile: A Memoir examines the life of a family of Ghanaian immigrants and their journeys of acculturation, and the impact of the father's spiraling mental health issues on his family. Through the eyes of their daughter, this thesis briefly explores their lives on the right side of the Atlantic, as medical professionals, and then focuses on the life of their daughter born in America on the left side of the Atlantic. As novelist Georges Simenon has said, "I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong." This memoir explores this tension between alienation and connection, as a second-generation immigrant grows up navigating between various cultures: to dominant American culture, evangelical Christian/Southern culture, African-American culture, and Ghanaian culture. In an attempt to understand the present, this thesis is a sankofa journey back into the author's history. Spanning over four decades, the memoir uncovers various exilic configurations: exiled from family, from ethnic heritage, from home, and from one's self.
M.F.A.
Masters
English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing
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Held, Amber. "Akwaaba: Ghananain arts and culture." Thesis, Boston University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27670.

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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Annan, Esi Sam. "SANKOFA ART EDUCATION: A CULTURAL BASIS FOR GHANAIAN ART EDUCATION." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3867.

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This study is a curriculum research project that focuses on teaching the traditional arts of Ghana and enduring artistic ideas to Ghanaian basic school students. It has been designed based on data from a survey conducted with experts in Ghana arts history and on the traditional arts of Ghana. The curriculum covers the major arts practiced by the traditional artists. It also recognizes some contemporary Ghanaian artists and their artworks. This study offers insights into Ghanaian basic school art teachers’ philosophies and experience with their traditional arts. Through analysis of the findings, the major themes that emerged were changes in the assessment strategies of the national curriculum for Creative Art subject, the opportunities this new curriculum might bring to multicultural education, and the positive effect this curriculum has had on teachers’ understanding and designing of traditional art lessons.
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MacKenzie, Benjamin Roe. "Designing the Part: Drama and Cultural Identity Development Among Ghanaian Teenagers." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300477046.

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Ayiku, Robert Kingsley. "Symbolic meanings in the Ghanaian arts : a step towards developing cultural literacy." Thesis, 1998. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/795/1/NQ43588.pdf.

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While the cultural policy adopted by Ghana on her attainment of political independence aims to offer the Ghanaian people opportunities to revive, preserve, and develop their indigenous culture, not much has been done in terms of documenting the Ghanaian cultural arts for both cultural record and educational purposes. This is because most of the experts of indigenous Ghanaian cultural matters are illiterates. These cultural experts depend mainly on an oral tradition for transmitting information about their culture. Communal beliefs and values, and ideas about cultural behaviours and actions, cultural symbols and images are passed on to the younger generations through stories, proverbs, and folk songs, among others. The people of Ghana have a characteristic of thinking about the world in which they live in symbolic terms. Thus, they use a wide range of symbol systems in accordance with various aspects of their social and cultural life, including the practice of their arts. Indeed, Ghanaian artistic expression is mostly symbolically oriented, serving to represent communal beliefs that are deeply rooted in historical, philosophical, social, religious, economic, and political values which form the basis of all major areas of Ghanaian cultural knowledge that gave birth to their arts. The national call for cultural revival, as well as a new urge for cultural identity among Ghanaians, today, has resulted in an urgent need for a research to document various aspects of the Ghanaian culture for use as educational and reference material to augment the oral tradition which is becoming increasingly inadequate in meeting the educational needs of the people. This study identifies and interprets the meanings of some symbolic key expressions as they are found in particular examples of the indigenous cultural arts of Ghana, namely: the visual, performing, and verbal art forms. The documentation includes the social and cultural significance (relevance) and aesthetic attributions of these symbolic artistic expressions and art forms to the people of Ghana. The documentation is done in a way that makes it applicable for arts education in Ghanaian schools. The Ghanaian cultural arts have been incorporated as an interdisciplinary study under a curriculum enrichment programme--a supporting content of the general education programme--rendering instruction in them to become an ancillary activity. This disparity between the goals of general education and arts education has resulted in the latter being relegated to the peripheries of the general school curriculum. The study, therefore proposes teaching and learning strategies for using the documented materials in the Primary, Junior Secondary, and Senior Secondary School levels of education in Ghana, using a discipline-based art education (D.B.A.E.) approach which integrates studio practice (art-making) with the historical, aesthetics, and critical domains of the arts. The resulting body of literature on the Ghanaian arts together with the suggested approaches to teaching and learning result in an arts education programme that is appropriate for Ghanaian schools. By studying the arts in relation to their own cultural context students will understand the arts they have been living with as part of their lifestyle. Their artistic skills and practices, imaginations, knowledge, and judgement will be grounded in their own cultural assumptions. In this way, students will understand and acquire the relevant literacy for effective participation in, and appreciation of their own culture.
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Asare, Lawrence Amoako. "A critical survey of Akan (Ghanaian) collections in the Natal Museum." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5763.

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This thesis surveys the Akan collections in the Natal Museum, Pietennaritzburg. Chapter one of this thesis gives a historical overview of Akan cultural traditions. The second chapter introduces the main focus of the thesis by surveying two collections of Akan works accessioned into the Natal Museum during the first decade of the twentieth century. Chapter three analyses contextually the Akan collections on the basis of their social and symbolic functions at their African place of origin. The fourth chapter focuses on the Akan goldweights in the Natal Museum and discusses their historical traditions, methods of production, and contextual use.
Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1998.
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Books on the topic "Ghanaian Arts"

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Ghana, University of, ed. The performing arts in Africa - Ghanaian perspectives. Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2014.

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Warren, Dennis M. Akan arts and aesthetics: Elements of change in a Ghanaian indigenous knowledge system. Edited by Andrews J. Kweku and Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme. Technology and Social Change Program, Iowa State University, 1990.

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Fosu, Kojo. Traditional art of Ghana. Dela Publications and Design Services, 1994.

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Ryan, Virginia. Landing in Accra. s.n.], 2002.

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1944-, Anatsui El, ed. El Anatsui: Art and life. Prestel, 2012.

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Kwami, Atta. Kumasi realism 1951-2007: An African modernism. Columbia University Press, 2011.

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Extreme Canvas. Dilettante Press, 2001.

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Ghana: Hier Et Aujourd'hui = Yesterday and Today. Musee Dapper, 2003.

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Ghana, FCA, ed. Small works, big city. FCA Ghana, 2005.

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Ghana, FCA, ed. Small works, big city. FCA Ghana, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ghanaian Arts"

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Kraamer, Malika. "A Cloth to Wear: Value Embodied in Ghanaian Textiles." In Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37035-0_6.

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Appiah-Adjei, Gifty. "The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1298-2.ch011.

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Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in Ghana. So, the study aims to examine how the Ghanaian media are tackling journalist insecurity through coverage. Using agenda-setting and framing theories, content analyses of 66 news stories from newspapers, and five interviews are used to gather data to study the coverage and framing of journalist insecurity in the media and how they tackle threats to media freedom. Thematic analysis of data gathered showed that the newspapers were unable to give prominence to the problem because only 30.60% of total editions gave attention to the issue. Also, the media failed to present journalist insecurity as an issue that needs national attention because only 10.6% of the news stories used thematic frames. This undermines media freedom as it allows journalist insecurity to thrive, hence, failure to advocate journalist safety.
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Svašek, Maruška. "Identity and Style in Ghanaian Artistic Discourse." In Contesting Art. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003135739-2.

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Owusu-Ansah, Frances Emily, and Gordon M. Donnir. "Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context." In Research Anthology on Rehabilitation Practices and Therapy. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch053.

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This chapter posits that the science of psychotherapy is a culturally defined art. Psychological theories must, of necessity and efficacy, be adapted and responsive to the context within which they are practiced. The Ghanaian cultural context is deeply spiritually-oriented. Socio-religious beliefs in this cultural context define the Ghanaian concept of health, ill health, and health-seeking behaviours. Therefore, effective psychotherapy and culturally competent care must be context specific and suited to the needs, norms, practices and beliefs of the indigenous people. Yet, it is not unusual to find clinicians who practice in one cultural context but were trained in another; a situation that sometimes hinders effective service delivery. The chapter discusses some of the challenges faced by Ghanaian psychotherapists, practicing in Ghana, who were trained in a non-African cultural context. Excerpts of clinical case studies are used to illustrate these issues and suggestions for culturally competent care conclude the chapter.
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Owusu-Ansah, Frances Emily, and Gordon M. Donnir. "Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context Psychotherapy in Indigenous Context." In Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0833-5.ch018.

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This chapter posits that the science of psychotherapy is a culturally defined art. Psychological theories must, of necessity and efficacy, be adapted and responsive to the context within which they are practiced. The Ghanaian cultural context is deeply spiritually-oriented. Socio-religious beliefs in this cultural context define the Ghanaian concept of health, ill health, and health-seeking behaviours. Therefore, effective psychotherapy and culturally competent care must be context specific and suited to the needs, norms, practices and beliefs of the indigenous people. Yet, it is not unusual to find clinicians who practice in one cultural context but were trained in another; a situation that sometimes hinders effective service delivery. The chapter discusses some of the challenges faced by Ghanaian psychotherapists, practicing in Ghana, who were trained in a non-African cultural context. Excerpts of clinical case studies are used to illustrate these issues and suggestions for culturally competent care conclude the chapter.
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