Journal articles: 'Ghanaian newspapers'

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Manu, James Gyimah. "Presupposition in Ghanaian and British Newspaper editorials." Ghana Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 1 (2020): 18–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v9i1.2.

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The paper explores presupposition and its triggers in Ghanaian and British newspaper editorials. Using a model proposed by Khaleel (2010:529) based on Karttunen (n.d.) and Yule (1996), the researcher analysed thirty (30) editorials from the Daily Guide (Ghanaian) and The Guardian (British) which were published in 2017. The analysis revealed some similarities and differences in the Ghanaian and British newspaper editorials. It was found that the frequently used trigger of the existential presupposition in both newspapers is the definite noun phrase. Again, it was found that the most used to trigger structural presupposition is the relative clause. The noticeable difference between the two is that in the Daily Guide, the structural presupposition is the most triggered (46.1%) whilst the existential presupposition (69.8%) is the most triggered in The Guardian.

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MacLean, Lauren M., George M. Bob-Milliar, Elizabeth Baldwin, and Elisa Dickey. "The construction of citizenship and the public provision of electricity during the 2014 World Cup in Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 54, no. 4 (2016): 555–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x16000574.

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ABSTRACTWhy did the Ghanaian state go to such extraordinary lengths to facilitate the reliable broadcast of the World Cup in 2014? During a period of frequent power outages, Ghana swapped power with regional neighbours and directed major domestic industries to reduce production in order to allow Ghanaians to watch their national soccer team compete in the World Cup. This paper investigates the politics of the public service provision of electricity in Ghana. We focus on the short-term crisis during the 2014 World Cup to reveal the citizens' and politicians' expectations about electricity as a public good. Drawing on an analysis of archival documents, Ghanaian newspapers, and interviews with government, business, and NGO officials in the energy sector, we argue that the Ghanaian state historically has created the expectation of electricity as a right of national citizenship and explore how this intersects with competitive party politics today.

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Sikanku, Etse G. "Intermedia Influences Among Ghanaian Online and Print News Media." Journal of Black Studies 42, no. 8 (2011): 1320–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934711417435.

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Four major publications in Ghana ( Daily Graphic, Daily Guide, Ghana News Agency [GNA], and Ghanaweb) were used to investigate intermedia agenda-setting relationships in Africa’s emerging era of liberalization. The results are based on a content analysis of daily news reports ( N = 322) and a traditional cross-lagged analysis, which found limited reciprocal relationships between the websites of two print newspapers ( Daily Graphic and Daily Guide). Whereas one non-newspaper website (GNA) influenced both print news media, the other solely online publication, Ghanaweb, displayed weak intermedia effects. Strong correlations between the issue salience of both non-newspaper websites were observed. These findings indicate that intermedia agenda-setting effects in Ghana are mixed. The main contribution of this article is to extend the intermedia agenda-setting theory to Africa in the ferment of new media technologies and democratic reform.

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Alali, A. Odasuo, and Sophia A. Adjaye. "Personification of Death in Ghanaian Death Notices." Psychological Reports 82, no. 1 (1998): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.1.223.

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Analysis of content of death notices (obituaries, in memoriams, and funeral announcements) may offer some explanation of how Ghanaians express their feelings about the death of loved ones and the meanings they assign to death and dying. Analysis of 371 death notices selected from two widely read Ghanaian newspapers, the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times yielded six thematic expressions about death and dying: death is personified as cold and unfeeling and described as an ongoing painful experience; the deceased is described as beloved, devoted, and valued. Death notices indicate impending restructured roles and social relationships survivors face; the image and personality of the deceased are included; and the availability and proximity of the deceased's next of kin can be inferred. The findings add to the literature on (1) cultural attitudes toward death and (2) how death is managed and feelings about death and dying are expressed.

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Ekwelie, Sylvanus A., and Dympna Edoga-Ugwuoju. "Ownership Patterns of Ghanaian Newspapers: an Historical Perspective." Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands) 35, no. 1 (1985): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001654928503500104.

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Nchindila, Bernard M., and Richard T. Torto. "Persuasive Effect of Figures of Speech in the English of Advertisements in the Ghanaian Press." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 5 (2020): 492. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1005.03.

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Little is known about persuasive effects of figures of speech in the English of advertisements in Ghanaian press. In the current study, we focused on this persuasive effect of figures of speech in the English employed in advertisements in newspapers in Ghana. Since advertising is a genre of mass media communication which unearths the exceptional qualities of products and services in a persuasive fashion, it is also a form of marketing communication through which business organizations inform the general public about new or improved commercial endeavors. Therefore, language plays an indispensable role in the transmission of the message. The language of advertising influences the reasoning, thinking, feeling and the general attitude of the audience. The study reported about in this article was underpinned by the Conventional Figurative Language Theory, utilizing the qualitative content analysis approach as the analytical framework. The findings revealed that copywriters of the Ghanaian newspapers employed English figures of speech (tropes and rhetorical figures) in advertisements for persuasive effect.

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Bakuuro, Justine, and Africanus L. Diedong. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Language in Ghanaian Newspaper Editorials." ATHENS JOURNAL OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS 7, no. 1 (2020): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajmmc.7-1-3.

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The study explores the linguistic devices, approaches and styles in media discourse that are used to stake claims to knowledge, to influence attitudes and to promote critical thinking, among other functional roles of language. The study was equally interested in knowing the outcomes of the choice of these linguistic devices as far as communication is concerned. Linguistic devices such as modality, evaluative adjectives, adverbs, generic phrases, rhetoric and idioms among others, are used to state opinions, make predictions and influence attitudes. The study hypothesises that the study of language can be used in particular ways, so intended by the user, to achieve specific purposes. Eight different newspapers: The Daily Graphic, The Ghanaian Times, The Mirror, The Crusading Guide, The Insight, The Independent, The Catholic Standard and The Daily Guide, editorial excerpts were culled and used for the study of language use in newspaper editorials. The styles used and the reasons behind the choice of those devices and styles are closely looked at in the analysis. With Systemic Functional Linguistics, complemented with Van-Dijk’s theory of Media Discourse as models of analysis, the study is theoretically anchored. The study concludes that editorial writers use linguistic devices to express different shades of attitude and opinion, to influence, shape or re-shape their readers’ attitudes and to promote critical thinking of readers. Keywords: Linguistic Devices, Media Discourse, Communication, Language, Styles.

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Agyei-Mensah, Samuel, Elvis Kyere-Gyeabour, Abraham Mwaura, and Pierpaolo Mudu. "Between Policy and Risk Communication: Coverage of Air Pollution in Ghanaian Newspapers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 20 (2022): 13246. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013246.

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Mass media plays an increasingly persuasive role in orienting political decisions, shaping social agendas, influencing individuals’ actions, and interpreting scientific evidence for the public. With growing scientific understanding of the health, social and environmental consequences of air pollution, there is an urgent need to understand how media coverage frames these links, particularly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This paper examines how the Ghanaian print and electronic media houses are covering air pollution issues given increased efforts at reducing air pollution within the country. The main goal of this work is to track the progress of policies to reduce air pollution. We used a qualitative content analysis of selected newspapers (both traditional and online) between the periods 2016 and 2021 and we found that articles on air pollution have been increasing, with more reportage on impact and policy issues compared to causes of air pollution. A focus group with six members of the media confirmed an interest in covering health and environmental issues, particularly coverage of specific diseases and human-interest pieces. This increasing attention is likely associated with intensifying local, national, and international action to improve air quality in Ghana, and growing awareness of the health impacts of air pollution.

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Dzokoto, Vivian, Christina Barnett, Annabella Osei-Tutu, and Alexis Briggs. "Mental health reportage in Ghanaian newspapers between 2000 and 2015: A qualitative analysis." International Journal of Mental Health 47, no. 3 (2018): 192–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2018.1488557.

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Asare-Donkoh, Frankie. "Children in the media: how much space do they get in Ghanaian newspapers?" Journal of Children and Media 11, no. 4 (2017): 417–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2017.1348370.

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Fosu, Modestus. "A Linguistic Description of the Language of Ghanaian Newspapers: Implications for the Readability, Comprehensibility and Information Function of the Ghanaian Press." Ghana Journal of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v5i1.62.

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Torto, Richard T. "Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Advertising Texts in the Print Media in Ghana." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 3 (2020): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1003.02.

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Advertisements are fashioned in diverse forms, but in most of them, language is absolutely essential. Although visual images, graphic and color designs and other techniques constitute aspects of print advertising, it is the language of the advertisement that enables consumers to identify a product and remember it. Indeed, language has a powerful influence on readers and their behavioral patterns. The English Language is employed in the print media in Ghana as a means of communicating information about goods and services with the goal of persuading the consuming public to take purchasing decisions. In the current article, I applied Aristotle’s Rhetorical Theory to the analysis of persuasive elements in the English used in advertisements in Ghanaian newspapers. The qualitative research design was employed in the study as the corpus was solely from written documents. The findings of the study demonstrated that copywriters in the Ghanaian print media employed Aristotle’s three artistic proofs, namely, logos, pathos and ethos in the English of advertisements for persuasive effect.

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Yankson, I. K., E. N. L. Browne, H. Tagbor, et al. "Reporting on road traffic injury: content analysis of injuries and prevention opportunities in Ghanaian newspapers." Injury Prevention 16, no. 3 (2010): 194–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip.2009.024174.

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Aidoo, Dora Baaba, Francis Xavier Kofi Akotoye, and Kofi Ayebi-Arthur. ""Academic 419": locating computer crimes in the use of ICT for the management of educational systems in Ghana- the case of University of Cape Coast." Journal of Educational Management 6 (November 1, 2012): 102–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/jem.v6i.403.

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The rapid evolution of information tech no logy, the pro Iiferation of computer and media devices and the rapid growth in the use ICT and the internet for organisational management have spawned new forms of crimes and made old crimes easier to commit it. References to news in Ghanaian newspapers confirm the rising incidence of these crimes. A review of available literature, however, portrays a paucity of research that explores such crimes in African and for that matter, Ghanaian settings. In this position paper, we use "Academic 419" as a metaphor to describe computer crimes, highlighting some of such crimes from the international literature with a major focus on the types that can potentially occur in the University of Cape Coast. For us, it is imperative for leadership and management in their utilisation of ICT to be more vigilant in security issues and accept the need to safeguard their ICT systems to achieve maximal efficiency and effectiveness in their institutions. This objective can positively be attained when directed research such as we advocate for are conducted to explore all related facilitating factors in order to align the design and change in direction for the secure and effective implementation of the University of Cape Coast lCT policy.

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Ofori, Emmanuel Amo. "Intertextuality and the Representation of Insults in Pro-NPP and Pro-NDC Newspapers in Ghana: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 9 (2016): 1739. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0609.03.

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Intertextuality is the idea that “text cannot be viewed or studied in isolation since texts are not produced or consumed in isolation: all texts exist, and therefore must be understood, in relation to other texts” (Richardson, 2007, p. 100). In this study, I examine the kinds of Intertextuality used in the representation of insults in pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) newspapers in Ghana. I relate Intertextuality to van Dijk’s ideological square to show how newspapers re-echo and legitimize the voice of the in-group by assigning them with authoritative qualities and titles, credentials that make whatever they say very reliable and at times taken as the truth without submitting them to any critical evaluation. However, in instances where the voices of the out-group members are reported, as Rojo (1995, p. 54) puts it, it is a means to “criticize them or discredit them.” The application of Intertextuality, in this study, reveals what both pro-NPP and pro-NDC papers consider newsworthy, that is, whose insult or voice is reported and whose is not. It shows how the in-group’s insults are represented in relation to the out-group. It further identifies the underlying ideologies in the representation of insults in Ghanaian political discourse.

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Agyemang, Franklin Gyamfi, Henry Boateng, and Michael Dzigbordi Dzandu. "Dialogic communication on universities in Ghana libraries’ websites." Electronic Library 33, no. 4 (2015): 684–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-02-2014-0041.

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Purpose – This study aims to ascertain the contents of universities in Ghana libraries’ websites and find the dialogic potential of the websites. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative content analysis technique was used. The sample includes the libraries’ websites of universities in Ghana that have received presidential charter. A checklist was developed to assess the content of the websites. In assessing the dialogic potential of the websites, Kent and Taylors’ framework was used. Findings – Findings from the study show that Ghanaian universities libraries’ websites are providing only static information about libraries and their services. The libraries’ websites are deficient in providing vital information on newspapers, print journals, frequently asked questions and date of post. Again, findings of the study indicate that universities in Ghana libraries’ websites have poor dialogic features. Originality/value – There is no study investigating the dialogic potential of universities in Ghana libraries’ websites.

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Bonsu-Owu, Henry Kojo. "A Three Step Approach Analysis of the Portrayal of Images of Women in three Ghanaian Newspapers: Newsone, Ebony and The Mirror." ATHENS JOURNAL OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS 5, no. 2 (2019): 131–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajmmc.5-2-4.

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Gilbert, Michelle. "‘No condition is permanent’: ethnic construction and the use of history in Akuapem." Africa 67, no. 4 (1997): 501–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161106.

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AbstractThis article concerns a recent political crisis which led to the fragmentation, in the main along ethnic lines, of the small Ghanaian kingdom of Akuapem. The situation is complex, though one may choose to frame it too simply in terms of hegemony (Akan vis-à-vis Guan) or even as a double hegemony in the sense that arguments on both sides appeal to ‘modern’ notions, to law courts, the constitution and ‘freedom’, and to newspapers in order to propagandise a position rather than to appeal to the authority of ‘traditional’ arbitration, destoolment, ancestral shrines and gods. Ethnicity and identity are notions with many and ill-defined meanings that fragment when separated from the specific situations in which they are used or constructed. To examine ethnicity one must see how ethnicities are ‘entangled’ and relate to each other; one needs, too, an historical perspective, for, whatever selfhood was in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, it is obviously different today. The dense historical and ethnographic details in the article are essential to point to the shape of the social order and to reveal in all their complexity the factors behind the recent fighting and continuing tension in the kingdom.

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Ankomah, Baffuor. "Where Truth is on Holiday." Index on Censorship 15, no. 4 (1986): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064228608534079.

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Frimpong, George Kodie. "Subordination Across Ghanaian And British Newspaper Editorials: A Register Perspective." Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6, no. 1 (2017): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v6i1.59.

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Afful, Isaac. "A DIACHRONIC STUDY OF THE NP STRUCTURE IN GHANAIAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS 5, no. 1 (2014): 555–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jal.v5i1.2740.

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In the last few decades, researchers have grown much interest in analyzing the structure of the NP in various domains. Dwelling on Quirk et als (1985) framework on NP complexities, this study investigates the NP structure in editorials form the Daily Graphic. Being a diachronic study, nine editorials form 1988, 1998 and 2008 were analysed. The analysis and discussion point to two key findings. First, there has been a gradual increase in the use of Head + PP structures in Ghanaian newspaper editorials. Second, the Determiner+Head has been the most preferred structure of premodification in editorials. These findings have implications for print media discourse, Historical linguistics and for further research.

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Inusah, Husein. "Putting African Communitarian Values to the Test during a Pandemic." Journal of Religion in Africa 51, no. 1-2 (2022): 133–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340204.

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Abstract Some African scholars have challenged the idea that African societies are still communitarian largely due to urbanisation and cosmopolitanism. Using Ghana as a case study, this essay aims to address this protest by analysing the speeches of the president of Ghana and some of the attitudes and behaviours of Ghanaians during the lockdown days of the COVID 19 pandemic in Ghana to test African communitarian status. The essay deploys the ideological analysis method of rhetorical criticism to examine and analyse the speeches of the president of Ghana on updates to the enhanced responses to the COVID 19 pandemic and content analysis of newspapers and online news portals to analyse the attitudes and behaviours of Ghanaians during the lockdown days of the pandemic. It is observed that the speeches of the president and some of the attitudes of Ghanaians during the lockdown inherently lean toward and are consistent with African communitarianism rather than hard-core liberalism and collectivism.

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Azaglo, Alex Kwasi, Alice Korkor Ebeheakey, Benjamin Quarshie, and Prosper Kwaku Asiedu. "Conceptualizing the stylistic body movements in contemporary Ghanaian dances as performance art form." Journal of African History, Culture and Arts 2, no. 1 (2022): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.57040/jahca.v2i1.104.

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This paper attempts to conceptualize the stylistic body movements in contemporary Ghanaian dances through the aesthetic lenses of performance art. The expressiveness of performance art forms is frequently praised for the emotions we have toward them. These feelings are derived from the symbolic connotations and functionalities of the arts in life. Through an exploratory design of qualitative inquiry, the researchers focus on a contextual dialogue on the aesthetic visual presentations of selected contemporary Ghanaian dances as performance art forms. The critical content analysis of music videos was espoused to examine the stylistic body movements and gestures coded in some contemporary Ghanaian dances such as Azonto, Twerking, Kupe, Pilolo and Shoo as part of an empirical artistic study. Instruments for data collection were observation, document analysis and photography for the contextual visual content analyses grounded in semiotic and aesthetic theoretical discourse. This study again relied heavily on secondary data from recorded communication including music videos, books, transcripts, websites, newspaper articles, journal articles and the like to make objective inferences. The findings indicate that dance is the communication that occurs via the conduit of the dancer's body that ruptures individuals' independent existence and generates a sense of finitude. Whereas some of the dances make aggressively erotic visual statements, others are mere expressive gestural and body movements to simply entertain a targeted audience. The result further shows that, the contemporary Ghanaian dance performances transcend beyond mere entertainment but rather are an embodiment of body language emerging from the indigenous dance symbolisms. Teaching learners to perceive visual aesthetic qualities and symbolic interpretations in dance performances will deepen the appreciation of Ghanaian dance performances not just as entertainment but as another medium for expression to transmit their inherent messages. It is suggested that, these dance forms should be formalized as indigenous knowledge in a quest to blend tradition with modernity in our creative endeavours. This knowledge should be propagated through creative arts education in Ghanaian schools. Other performance art components displayed in contemporary Ghanaian dances including body painting, facial expressions, costumology and fashion accessories present another lacuna for further research by future researchers. Key words: aesthetics, dance, therapy, performance art, body, movement

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Nieswand, Boris. "Ghanaian Migrants in Germany and the Social Construction of Diaspora Les migrants ghanéens en Allemagne et la construction sociale de la diaspora." African Diaspora 1, no. 1-2 (2008): 28–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187254608x346051.

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Abstract This article explores diasporic discourses and practices among Ghanaian migrants in Germany. Instead of presuming that 'diaspora' is a stringent theoretical concept or refers to a bounded group in a sociological sense, it is argued that it provides migrants with a grammar of practice that allows for the situational and contextual construction of different types of 'diasporas'. Empirically, three social sites of construction are identified. Firstly, the Ghanaian nation-state and the reconfiguration of Ghanaian nationalism play an important role for promoting diasporic discourses. Secondly, the discourse of development and 'charity rituals' of ethnic and 'hometown' associations are of particular relevance for the proliferation of Ghanaian 'diasporas'. Thirdly, Ghanaian chieftaincies are involved in diasporic activities. The article is based on data collected in thirteen months of multi-sited ethnography conducted in Germany and Ghana between 2001 and 2003 and the analysis of video tapes, newspaper articles and web pages. Cet article explore les discours diasporiques et les pratiques trouvées parmi les migrants ghanéens en Allemagne. Plutôt que de présumer que la « diaspora » est un concept théorique strict ou fait référence à un groupe délimité dans un sens sociologique, il est soutenu qu'il fournit une grammaire de pratiques qui permet la construction situationnelle et contextuelle de différents types de « diasporas ». Empiriquement, trois lieux de construction sociale sont identifiés. Premièrement l'Etat-nation ghanéen et la reconfiguration du nationalisme ghanéen jour un rôle important pour promouvoir des discours diasporiques. Deuxièmement, le discours du développement et des « rituels de charité » des associations ethniques et des « villes natales » a une pertinence particulière pour la prolifération des « diasporas » ghanéennes. Troisièmement, les chefferies des tribus ghanéennes sont impliquées dans les activités de la diaspora. Empiriquement, cet article se base sur treize mois d'ethnographie, conduite en Allemagne et au Ghana entre 2001 et 2003, et sur l'analyse de bandes-vidéos, d'articles de journaux et de sites web.

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Quarcoo, Millicent Akosua Bosompemaa, Hamidu Alhassan, and Aikins Addae. "Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis." Contemporary Journal of African Studies 9, no. 2 (2022): 85–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v9i2.4.

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This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials in Ghana. In all, a total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 newspaper editorials from The Ghanaian Times and The Daily Graphic, which were published in the 2016 and 2017 news years, for compilation of a specialised corpus for the study. From the collocation tab of the AntConc corpus software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Collocations were found to constitute the most frequently occurring collocations in the newspaper editorials under study. The corpus revealed that both predictive and open Verb-Noun Collocations which alternate at the left and right sides on the collocation window span are mostly used by newspaper editorial writers in Ghana. Again, it was observed that phrasal patterns of a noun collocate differed according to its position on either the left or right side of a verb node. The semantic prosodies of the profiled verb-noun collocations revealed five major discourses which constituted the most discussed issues in the newspaper editorials published in 2016 and 2017 news years.These issues were governance, politics and elections, peace and security, law and order, and corruption.

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Osei-Tutu, Kwaku. "The Influence of American English and British English on Ghanaian English." Ghana Journal of Linguistics 10, no. 2 (2021): 84–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v10i2.4.

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English has been the de facto official language of Ghana since the country gained independence from Britain in 1957. According to Dolphyne (1995:31) “it is… standard written [British] English that newspaper editors and editors of journals aim at, as well as teachers in their teaching of English at all levels.” Shoba et al. (2013) also reinforce this stating that British English has remained the standard of the Ghanaian educational system since colonization. In recent times, however, American English has become more popular in Ghana, especially in the entertainment industry (Anderson et al., 2009). Using data from the International Corpus of English (Ghana component – written and spoken; British component – written and spoken; and the American component – written) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this paper looks at the frequencies of got, gotten and the modals will, shall, should and must with the aim of finding out which of the two native varieties Ghanaian English patterns after. The results of the study reveal that while Ghanaian English reflects some influence from American English by showing a tendency to pattern after it with regard to got and gotten, the same cannot be said regarding the modals will, shall, should and must.

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Adjei, Amma Abrafi. "Style in the Print Media: Perspectives from the Editorials of a Ghanaian Newspaper." Namibian Journal for Research, Science and Technology 2, no. 1 (2020): 63–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.54421/njrst.v2i1.20.

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The study employs linguistic stylistic analysis, specifically, Leech and Shorts’ (2007) stylistic categories to identify the stylistic features used predominantly in selected newspaper editorials. The corpus used is made up of thirty editorials which are randomly selected. It employs the qualitative research design to analyse selected texts. The analysis reveals that the editorial of the Daily Graphicabounds in the use of stylistic features through the use of lexical items. Among others, the study discusses that the editorial makes use of major lexical items such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs, with nouns dominating the lexical choices and adjectives, the least. It adds that the use of different linguistic and stylistic features in the packaging ofinformation is motivated and purposeful, because the features help in the interpretation and meaning of the editorial. The analysis of lexical items has helped to provide an interpretation to the editorials in addition to showing the communicative relationship between author and reader. Pedagogically, the study is significant in the sense that it provides an avenue for students and teachers of language to observe how the appropriate selection of lexical items helps in text construction and meaning creation. The study recommends that stylistic features are helpful in the packaging and interpretation of texts (editorials included), therefore, language users: writers, teachers, students and other users of language, especially in ESL and EFL contexts, should beguided in authentic use of linguistic items in the packaging of information in the language classroom and in other contexts.This study makes a modest contribution to understanding the relationship between collective action and collective identity in CBNRM and similar institutions.

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Braimah, Mohammed Kamarideen, and Gregory Titigah Titigah. "The Effects of Covid 19 on Workers and Its Implications on Socio-Economic Inequalities in Ghana." International Journal of Health Sciences 6, no. 1 (2023): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/ijhs.1187.

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Purpose: The novel coronavirus has caused havoc to the various economies throughout the world with Ghana, not an exception. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the various institutions and sectors in Ghana particularly the effects on Ghanaian workers and its implications on inequalities in Ghana be studied.  Methodology: The paper adopted a qualitative research approach and used discourse analysis of secondary data obtained from sources such as journal articles, online news articles, newspaper publication and other internet sources. The study is hinged on the institutional theory. Findings: The findings indicated that the outbreak of the pandemic have brought negative consequences to the workers of the country. These consequences are loss of jobs, reduced income and source of livelihoods. Unique Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: The policies implemented by the government of Ghana to curtail the spread of the virus have rather exacerbated the already troubling inequality situation in the country. There is also a widening gender inequality, income and poverty inequality, employment inequality, and inequality in the access to education between the vulnerable and less vulnerable in Ghanaian society.

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Asomaning, Sarpong Smart, Akom Mary Safowah, Kusi-Owusu Emelia, et al. "Employability Requirements in the Labour Market: Analysis of Advertised Job Vacancies in Ghana." International Business Research 14, no. 5 (2021): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v14n5p27.

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Background: Employability is often broadly defined as an individual&rsquo;s ability to gain employment, to maintain employment or to replace an employment relationship by another. This study seeks to provide information on employability demands in the Ghanaian labour market.  Method: The study is based on an in-depth analysis of job advertisements in the most widely read national daily, the Daily Graphic Newspaper. Analysis of the study was done using IBM-SPSS version 25.  Results: More than half of all advertised jobs (54.3%) were for Professionals and Management Officials. About 22.8% of all advertised jobs were open to persons with no academic qualifications. Of the remaining 77.2% that required educational qualifications, almost half (47.3%) were open to university first degree holders. Job seekers who lack job-specific skills, computer literacy and communicative skills are not likely to succeed in the Ghanaian labour market. Also from the results, one may secure a job from age 25 and is most likely to secure a suitable job by age 35 with a minimum of 3 years of working experience. However, the likelihood of securing a job reduces as one approaches age 45.  Conclusion: The study concludes that training and preparation for the job market should begin early enough for all prospective job seekers. Also, persons undertaking higher learning should take advantage of any small period of time in internship programs, voluntary works and industrial attachments to acquire the necessary work experiences needed to be competitive in the search for jobs in the Ghanaian labour market.

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MIZOBE, Yasuo. "A Survey of the Gold Coast (Southern Ghananian) Newspapers in the Latter Half of Nineteenth Century." Journal of African Studies 2006, no. 68 (2006): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.11619/africa1964.2006.45.

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Johnson, Martha C. "Lobbying for trade barriers: a comparison of poultry producers' success in Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 49, no. 4 (2011): 575–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x11000486.

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ABSTRACTOver the last two decades, developing countries have lowered trade barriers considerably. As a result, they have experienced a surge in food commodity imports. In Ghana, Senegal and Cameroon, a flood of frozen poultry imports in the late 1990s and early 2000s threatened domestic poultry producers. In response, they organised to demand protectionist measures. This article examines why the Cameroonian and Senegalese governments responded to these demands while the Ghanaian government did not. Employing data from interviews in Senegal, newspaper coverage in all three countries, and documentation from non-governmental organisations, it argues that Cameroonian, and to a lesser extent Senegalese, producers were able to influence government policy because they faced few barriers to collective action and built alliances with consumers before lobbying government. The findings suggest that a public choice, interest group-focused approach is still useful for explaining policy outcomes in West Africa.

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Sojková, Iva. "Framing illegal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Ghanaian media during the #StopGalamsey campaign." Journal of Modern African Studies 60, no. 3 (2022): 371–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x22000222.

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AbstractArtisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) plays a significant socio-economic role in the alleviation of poverty. In Ghana, the increase in and persistence of illegal ASM (galamsey) can be explained by unemployment, cumbersome and costly registration, lack of land, corruption and Chinese engagement. Traditionally, Ghanaian governments have neglected to address ASM activities by means of policy, while publicly emphasizing its negative impacts. In 2017, the media campaign #StopGalamsey became a culmination of this process. This study represents a qualitative content analysis of #StopGalamsey media discourses. It aims to understand how galamsey was framed in the media during the first two years of the campaign. Based on an analysis of 176 articles from the Daily Graphic newspaper, four dominant frames were identified – environmental menace, criminal activity, complex menace and corruption and collusion. Galamsey was portrayed in an overwhelmingly negative way, miners were dehumanised and criminalised, conflicting perspectives marginalised, and non-traditional perception emphasised via Chinese engagement.

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Donkor, David A. "Selling the President: Stand-Up Comedy and the Politricks of Indirection in Ghana." Theatre Survey 54, no. 2 (2013): 255–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557413000057.

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On 15 May 1995, the Alliance for Change (AFC), a coalition of opposition leaders in Ghana, organized a demonstration that came to be known by the name Kume Preko (which translates as “Kill me once and for all”) to protest the government's new value-added tax (VAT) policy. During the demonstration, armed supporters of Jerry Rawlings, Ghana's president, set upon the marchers, killing four people, including a fourteen-year-old boy. The AFC charged that members of the ruling party were implicated in the killings. It also dismissed a police report on the incident as a “cheap and fraudulent cover-up” that was “contradicted by the abundant evidence.” An article in the leading opposition newspaper, the Ghanaian Chronicle, criticized Rawlings's government for flouting the constitutional right to public dissent and called the violence against the demonstrators “Hitlerism in Ghana.” The Kume Preko violence dealt Rawlings a political blow: it dented his image as a man of the people and the credibility of his commitment to a new liberal democratic political regime in Ghana.

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Anaba, Emmanuel Anongeba, Adom Manu, Deda Ogum-Alangea, Emefa Judith Modey, Adolphina Addo-Lartey, and Kwasi Torpey. "Young people’s attitudes towards wife-beating: Analysis of the Ghana demographic and health survey 2014." PLOS ONE 16, no. 2 (2021): e0245881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245881.

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Introduction Intimate Partner Violence is a global public health problem. Attitude towards wife-beating is a major determinant of both intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization. However, little is known about the attitudes of Ghanaian young people towards wife-beating. The objectives of this study were to assess young people’s attitudes towards wife-beating, and identify salient factors influencing young people’s acceptance of wife-beating. Methods Data used in this study were obtained from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. The survey was nationally representative and provides estimates for population and health indicators across the former ten regions of Ghana, including rural and urban areas. Data were analyzed with Stata/SE version 16. Results We found that 32% of young women and 19% of young men accepted wife-beating. Among young women, acceptance of wife-beating was significantly influenced by younger age, wealth index, low educational status, religion, the region of residence, ethnicity, frequency of reading newspaper and frequency of listening to radio (p < 0.05). Among young men, acceptance of wife-beating was significantly influenced by wealth index, the region of residence and frequency of reading newspaper (p < 0.05). Conclusion This study demonstrates that a substantial proportion of young people in Ghana accept wife-beating. Young women were more likely to accept wife-beating compared to young men. Acceptance of wife-beating was influenced by socio-demographic and behavioral factors. Efforts to end violence against women and girls in Ghana should focus on promoting girl education, economic empowerment of women and public education on laws that prohibit Intimate Partner Violence.

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BOAKYE, Peter, and Kwame Osei KWARTENG. "Education for Nation Building: The Vision of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the Early Stages of Self-Government and Independence in Ghana." Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization 7 (December 5, 2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ajacc.v7i0.38.

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The Gold Coast was renamed Ghana by the political leadership on the attainment of Independence. But before 1957, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had become Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1952, and by this arrangement ruled alongside the British Colonial Governor. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah set out to rebuild the new nation, and by doing so, Education, especially University Education, became a significant tool for the realization of such an objective. He, and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Government saw education as “the keystone of people’s life and happiness.’’1 Thus, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah wanted the University Colleges in the Gold Coast to train intellectuals capable of combining both theory and practice as well as use their energies to assist in the task of national reconstruction.2 This explains why Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah clearly spelt out the visions of University Education in Ghana. This paper, which is multi-sourced, uses archival documents, newspapers, interviews and scholarly secondary works such as articles, book chapters and books to examine the visions of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the early stages of self-government and independence in Ghana. The paper particularly focuses on measures adopted by the first Prime Minister of Ghana such as establishment of an International Commission on University Education (ICUE), making the existing University Colleges independent, the rationale for setting up the University College of Cape Coast (UCCC), the Africanization of the University staff, establishment of the Institute of African Studies and the formation of the National Council for Higher Education to transform the University Colleges to reflect the needs and aspirations of Ghanaians.  _________________________________________ 1 H. O. A. McWilliam, & M. A. Kwamena-Poh, The Development of Education in Ghana. (London: Longman Group Ltd., 1975), 83. 2 Samuel Obeng, Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah, Vol. 1 (Accra: Aframs Publication Ltd., 1997), 74.

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Torto, Richard T. "Persuasion in the English of Advertising in the Ghanaian Newspapers." International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies 7, no. 12 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.24940/theijhss/2019/v7/i12/hs1912-072.

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Serwornoo, Michael Yao Wodui. "The coverage of Africa in Ghanaian newspapers: The dominant Western voice in the continent’s coverage." Journalism, November 20, 2019, 146488491988731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884919887311.

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A growing literature has emerged that is contesting the validity of Africa’s negative Western media representation as a myth and empirically non-existent. This article examines how four national newspapers in Ghana reported the continent. About 13,228 corpus belonging to these top four national newspapers, over a period of 2 years, were quantitatively examined for sources utilised. Based on a 2-week constructed sampling technique, 180 articles reporting Africa were further analysed for the subjects and tone of the coverage, and the dominant themes of representation. The ethnographic content analysis revealed that the coverage of the continent in these newspapers is dominated by themes of war, crime, killings, crises, terrorism and omission of progress. The African story was mostly narrated through the subject of politics and with a predominantly negative tone. I argue that the continent’s negative proxy self-coverage confirms the evasive spread of Afro-pessimism considering that Western global news organisations accounted for over 80 per cent of the reportage as sources.

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Adika, Gordon Senanu Kwame. "A Study of the Relative Clause as a Modifier in Two Ghanaian Newspapers." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, September 1, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p2943.

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Amadu, Mohammed Faisal, Eliasu Mumuni, and Ahmed Taufique Chentiba. "Journalistic ethics and elections news coverage in the Ghanaian press: a content analysis of two daily Ghanaian newspaper coverage of election 2020." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, October 11, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-04-2022-0039.

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Purpose This study investigates the incidence of ethical violations in the Ghanaian press which has become topical in the wake of misinformation in a charged political atmosphere. Public interest institutions have questioned the unprofessional conduct of journalists covering election campaigns in recent years. This study content analysed political stories from two leading Ghanaian newspapers (Daily Graphic and Daily Guide) to determine the nature and extent of ethical violations, and to examine the level of prominence accorded to political news stories by the two dailies. Design/methodology/approach This paper relied on qualitative content analysis for data gathering and analysis. A total of 387 political news items published between 1 October and 30 November 2020, were analysed. Findings This study found infractions of various nature to Article 1 of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) codes of ethics, chief among which is the deliberate publications of news stories without cross-checking facts. Other infractions to Articles 17, 11, 6 and 5 of the GJA codes of ethics were observed. Political news coverage favours the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) than any other parties, with the two parties (NPP-NDC) given greater prominence and salience by the Ghanaian press. Originality/value The research makes a modest contribution to the growing concern of journalism ethics in an increasing ecology of fake news.

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Adika, G. S. K. "The Use or Misuse of the Relative Clause as a Modifier: A Case of Two Ghanaian Newspapers." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES 10, no. 01 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.31901/24566322.2015/10.01.25.

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"Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations." Harvard Theological Review 108, no. 4 (2015): 629–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816015000425.

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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.

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Gyimah Manu, James, Wisdom Mawuli Awuttey, and Philip Kwame Freitas. "A Stylistic Exploration of Headlines in Ghanaian Newspaper Editorials." E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, January 26, 2022, 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2022311.

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Considering the role of newspaper editorials in shaping the opinions of the public on matters of national interest, the present study was carried out to explore how newspaper editorial headlines are constructed and packaged. A bottom-up stylistics approach was employed to ascertain some stylistic strategies or features in the headlines. It was revealed that Ghanaian editors employ several linguistic forms to trigger presuppositions and also use language devices or figures in order to affect the opinions of their readers, shape their understanding, and increase their interest to read the main text. The paper concludes that newspaper editorial headlines are not written arbitrarily but are carefully constructed to pack the greatest number of meanings in a small space. This study contributes to the existing knowledge in media discourse and stylistics in general. It presents headlines as independent text types which can be used as case studies in language classrooms to help students appreciate the application of language or literary concepts. Keywords: Newspaper, editorial, headline, style and stylistics.

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Osei-Opare, Nana. "Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits." Comparative Studies in Society and History, January 19, 2023, 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417522000548.

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Abstract This paper reexamines African socialism, the Ghanaian political economy under Kwame Nkrumah (1957–1966), Nkrumah’s intellectual genealogical heritage, and African intellectual history as a genre that transcends the bounds of the Atlantic world. First, I sketch the lives of Black Marxists—Nkrumah, C.L.R. James, George Padmore, and Bankole Awoonor-Renner—from Africa and the Americas, to the Soviet Union, to England and Ghana, to rethink Black bodies not merely as theorists of racial and decolonial questions but also as sites, carriers, and manipulators of political-economic theories. In constructing connected and overlapping histories, I demonstrate how controversial and contested Soviet ideas became key sites of interrogation among global Black Marxists. By reframing travel as an intellectual process, I reconceptualize the movements of Black Marxists to the USSR, the United States, England, and Ghana as critical intellectual and historical processes in their understandings of Lenin’s state capitalist ideas. Second, I revisit the Ghanaian political economy under Nkrumah to argue that combining socialist and capitalist development paths was not a contradictory Marxian policy but was embedded within Black Marxist understandings of Lenin’s state capitalist ideas. In so doing, I argue that we must situate African political ideologies not solely within a romanticized Afrocentric origin but as ideas that emerge out of contemporaneous global political and ideological struggles. I draw on global Black Marxists’ correspondence; newspaper and magazine articles; British and American espionage files; and Ghanaian, American, and British state and inter-state departmental documents in imperial, colonial, and postcolonial British, Ghanaian, American, and Russian archives.

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