Journal articles: 'Missions – Ghana'

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Sackey, Brigid M. "Charismatics, independents, and missions: Church proliferation in Ghana." Culture and Religion 2, no. 1 (March 2001): 41–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01438300108567162.

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Jedwab, Remi, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, and Alexander Moradi. "Christianization without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 190 (October 2021): 573–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.015.

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Mohr, Adam. "Out of Zion Into Philadelphia and West Africa: Faith Tabernacle Congregation, 1897-1925." Pneuma 32, no. 1 (2010): 56–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/027209610x12628362887631.

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AbstractIn May 1897 Faith Tabernacle Congregation was formally established in North Philadelphia, emerging from an independent mission that shortly thereafter became the Philadelphia branch of John Alexander Dowie’s Christian Catholic Church. Faith Tabernacle probably abstained from merging with Dowie’s organization because, unlike the Christian Catholic Church, it rigorously followed the faith principle for managing church finances. Like the Christian Catholic Church, Faith Tabernacle established many similar institutions, such as a church periodical (called Sword of the Spirit), a faith home, and a missions department. After Assistant Pastor Ambrose Clark became the second presiding elder in 1917, many of these institutions began flourishing in connection with a marked increase in membership, particularly in the American Mid-Atlantic as well as in Nigeria and Ghana. Unfortunately, a schism occurred in late 1925 that resulted in Clark’s leaving Faith Tabernacle to found the First Century Gospel Church. This event halted much of Faith Tabernacle’s growth both domestically and in West Africa. Subsequently, many of the former Faith Tabernacle followers in Nigeria and Ghana founded the oldest and largest Pentecostal churches in both countries.

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Kwadzo Agezo, Clement. "Female leadership and school effectiveness in junior high schools in Ghana." Journal of Educational Administration 48, no. 6 (September 28, 2010): 689–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09578231011079557.

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to examine female principal leadership practices that are considered crucial in the effectiveness and improvement of schools and school administration in Ghanaian junior high schools.Design/methodology/approachThe study was qualitative and interpretive. Five principals of junior high schools were interviewed, their schools observed over a period of three months, and schools' records examined.FindingsThe schools had shared visions and missions that were well articulated by the principals and other stakeholders. The principals created a work environment that encouraged creative thinking; designed and implemented new and cutting edge programs; and challenged the status quo.Research limitations/implicationsAs a male researching into female leadership, the researcher's gender might influence some of the findings. The sample size is not large enough for any meaningful generalization to be made beyond similar context and geographical contexts.Practical implicationsThe female principals were transformational leaders, a leadership style demanded in organizations during the twenty‐first century.Originality/valueAt the time that this research was conducted, it was the first study on female principal leadership in junior high schools in Ghana.

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Pérez, José O., and André L. Reis da Silva. "Cuban Medical Internationalism through a Feminist Perspective." Contexto Internacional 41, no. 1 (April 2019): 65–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019410100004.

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Abstract This article analyses Cuban medical internationalism through a feminist International Relations lens. Our results are based on numerous in-depth semi-structured interviews and fieldwork conducted with both female and male participants in these programmes. The doctors we interviewed have concluded medical missions in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, Angola and Ghana. We argue that examining Cuban medical internationalism from a feminist IR perspective gives us insights into the nuanced status of feminism within Cuban civil society, how international employment impacts family relations both positively and negatively, and how time spent abroad provides transformative experiences. This paper seeks to contribute to greater conversations on power, agency and gender in the global South.

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Peter, Mwinwelle, Amoakohene Benjamin, and Agyekum Obeng Nicholas. "Creating Institutional Solidarity: A Transitivity Analysis of Anthems of Selected Ghanaian Universities." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 11, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.2p.74.

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Previous works on the analysis of anthems have focused on unearthing encoded latent meanings through the analysis of linguistic devices such as cohesive devices, deictic expressions, figures of speech, content words and clauses. However, the analysis of institutional anthems as a sub-genre of anthems has received minimal attention in linguistic research. The current study therefore adopts a qualitative exploratory procedure to conduct a transitivity analysis of process types and their encoded implications in selected Ghanaian university anthems underpinned by the transitivity framework by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014). The sample for the study is composed of anthems of four main or traditional universities in Ghana. The four anthems that serve as data for the study are anthems of University for Development Studies (UDS), University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Ghana (UG) and University of Education, Winneba (UEW). The consensual coding strategy is used to check the validity of the coding process. The results indicate a preponderant use of material processes to spell out the expected actions to be taken by members of the universities to inure to the holistic progress of their institutions. Other process types such as relational, mental and verbal processes are minimally used to establish relationships, eulogize and personify the universities as important institutions worthy of praise. The study concludes that the creation of institutional solidarity was better represented through the analysis of process types in the selected Ghanaian university anthems. The implications of this study unveil the importance of university anthems in the representation of the goals, visions and missions of universities and recommend that tertiary institutions who use adopted anthems could relook at that by getting to compose their own anthems in alignment with the goals, vision and mission underpinning their establishment.

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Bolaji, M. H. A. "Secularism and State Neutrality: The 2015 Muslim Protest of Discrimination in the Public Schools in Ghana." Journal of Religion in Africa 48, no. 1-2 (December 7, 2018): 65–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340123.

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AbstractPluralism is a discernible feature of many modern states. However, among the variants of pluralism, religious pluralism appears to be the most intractable in many modern states because faiths and values underpin the conflicts that are associated with it. As one of the legacies of the Enlightenment, secularism is a normative prescription for managing religious pluralism. Nevertheless, while many African states profess to be secular, more often than not there are no concrete strategies to objectify the secular arrangement thereby provoking questions on the status quo. Such was the case with the 2015 Muslims’ protest of discrimination in the public basic and second cycles schools in Ghana. Through primary (interviews and archival and historical documents) and secondary data, this paper examines the protest in light of the secularist arrangement. It first reviews the contours of the secularist’s lenses. Second, it historicizes Muslim-Christian relations in Ghana. It also analyzes the checkered partnership between the state and the Christian missions in the provision of education. Moreover, it evaluates the debates that ensued and the ambivalent communiqué that the National Peace Council (NPC) issued. The paper concludes with a note that underscores the dynamics and tensions that characterize many plural societies in their attempt to objectify the secularist principle.

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Grant, Paul. "Dying German in Ghana: The Basel Mission Wrestles with Grief, 1830–1918." Studies in World Christianity 20, no. 1 (April 2014): 4–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2014.0068.

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Throughout the eighty years preceding the First World War, the Basel Mission's activities in the Gold Coast were overshadowed by endless reports of missionary death and disease. Lengthy bouts of sickness and grief described the very context of mission work. With each turn in the road, the missionaries and the home office alike turned to writing and rewriting their history, and in the process incorporated death into the message of the mission: sacrifice with an assurance of ultimate accomplishment gave way to notions of sacrifice as service in itself. This conversation was profoundly emotional and frequently expressed itself in song and poetry – the field hymnal, for example, included several songs for death and sickness. At the centre of Basel Mission grief lay a particularly German notion of home and spatial belonging called Heimat. To these German missionaries, including their supporters in Europe, the tragedy of dying in the mission field was above all dying far away from home.

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Upadhyaya, H. D., K. N. Reddy, M. Irshad Ahmed, C. L. L. Gowda, and B. I. G. Haussmann. "Identification of geographical gaps in the pearl millet germplasm conserved at ICRISAT genebank from West and Central Africa." Plant Genetic Resources 8, no. 1 (July 27, 2009): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147926210999013x.

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The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) genebank in India holds the world's largest collection of 21,594 pearl millet germplasm accessions including 18,447 landraces from 50 countries. West and Central Africa (WCA) region, which is considered as the centre of diversity for pearl millet, is also an important pearl millet germplasm source for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. A total of 7372 landraces were assembled from WCA countries. Out of which, 6434 landraces have the georeference data. The geographic origins of these landraces were analyzed using geographic information system tools to identify gaps in the collection. Geographical distribution of existing collections, type of vegetation, land cover and the high probability (>70%) for the occurrence of pearl millet estimated using the FloraMap software in different countries show that 62 districts in 13 provinces of Nigeria, 50 districts in 16 provinces of Burkina Faso, 9 districts in 6 provinces each of Mali and Mauritania, 8 districts in 8 provinces of Chad and 7 districts in 3 provinces of Ghana as the major geographical gaps in the pearl millet collection at the ICRISAT genebank. In view of this, we suggest that the final areas for exploration in these districts should be decided prior to the launch of the collection missions in consultation with local government officials and extension officers, who have the knowledge of pearl millet cultivation in the districts identified.

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Amankwah, Eric, and Zhou Guo-Hua. "Headmasters’ Leadership Styles and their Significant Impact on the General Performance in Schools: Using the Basic Schools in Adansi-South District in Ghana as a Study." International Journal of Education 12, no. 3 (September 26, 2020): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v12i3.17093.

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The main concepts and definitions of leadership and its styles differ in many ways. Thus; from one individual or position to the other. The word "leadership" is used in different circles of human endeavours, for example, in the political, business, academics, social and institutional spheres. In the early on, leadership was seen as a personal trait. The degree to which the individual exhibits leadership traits depends not only on his characteristics and personal abilities but also on the characteristics of the situation and environment in which he finds himself (Messick & Kramer, 2004). This study was conducted on the motivation that no country develops and succeeds better than the quality of the leaders who manage the educational system. This means that for a country to be successful, it depends largely on the quality of leadership that the school managers offer in the schools they manage in the development of skills and potential of the students for the country. The study employed a qualitative research method in the work. The data was collected from Adansi-South District in Ashanti Region in Ghana. Random purposive sampling procedures were adopted with a sample size of forty (40) respondents including heads of schools, teachers, and students. Data were collected through interviews, documentary reviews, and observations. They were analyzed through the use of content analysis technique and other renowned data software such as Excel, and SPSS 22 in the data computations. The findings and policy suggestions at the end of the research concluded that the autocratic leadership is useful if something has to be achieved in the short term and democratic leadership style is usually the most preferable in most situations. Participation leadership style is the most useful because it has a long term effect on employees in a more positive way. School heads who normally applied unreasonable laissez-faire and autocratic leadership styles failed in their schools’ goals, visions and missions implementations due to lack support and cooperation.

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Rakoczy, Susan. "Walking Together: Reflections on Lay Leadership Formation in Ghana." Missiology: An International Review 19, no. 1 (January 1991): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969101900105.

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Based on the author's experiences in mission in Ghana from 1982 to 1988, this article describes three dimensions of leadership formation with lay leaders in the Catholic charismatic renewal in Ghana: kenosis, partnership and collaboration, and empowerment for mission. These are linked with Lonergan's analysis of conversion and also provide elements for a spirituality of mission.

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Kenneth, Oppong, Abiodun A. Adesegun, and Peter Obeng Manu. "SDA Mission in Southern Ghana Union Conference." Asia-Africa Journal of Mission and Ministry 14 (August 31, 2016): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.21806/aamm.2016.14.06.

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Upchurch, Emma, and Steve Pengelly. "Operation Hernia Report." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 98, no. 3 (March 2016): 132–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/rcsbull.2016.132.

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Koonar, Catherine. "“Christianity, Commerce and Civilization”: Child Labor and the Basel Mission in Colonial Ghana, 1855–1914." International Labor and Working-Class History 86 (2014): 72–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547914000106.

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AbstractFocusing specifically on colonial Ghana between 1855 and 1914, this article aims to situate the history of child labor in colonial Africa within the larger historiography of African labor history. Relying primarily on the records of the Basel Mission, this article complicates the narrative of labor history by studying how the mission acquired and sustained the labor of children and youth at various mission stations as part of the greater “missionary project.” This article argues that childhood in colonial Ghana can be viewed as a site of contestation between the competing interests of patriarchy, race, and colonial and missionary authority, in which the labor of children was used to achieve a larger degree of control and influence in the region.

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Boadi, Isaac. "Determinants of Ghanaian banks’ credit to the “missing middle”: a supply side approach." International Journal of Bank Marketing 34, no. 6 (September 5, 2016): 924–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijbm-12-2015-0194.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use bank-level panel data to examine the determinants of Ghanaian banks credit to SMEs often referred to as the “Missing Middle.” Demands for bank credit by SMEs sector have been over flogged by researchers in recent times. Determinants of banks’ credit to SMEs from the supply side using most recent data for both micro (bank level) and macro (country) level data is a contribution to empirical literature. Design/methodology/approach The study employed the Generalized methods of moments using ten banks listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange to examine factors that determine banks credit to SMEs in Ghana. Bank-specific and country-specific data were collected from the financial statements of the sampled commercial banks operating in Ghana compiled by Ghana Association of Bankers over the period 1997-2014 consisting of 180 observations. The macroeconomic variables were retrieved from Ghana Statistical Service and Bank of Ghana, respectively. Findings The result of the study reveal that apart from the size of top management and GDP growth, the rest of micro (bank-specific variables) and macro (country) level sampled statistically influences bank credit to SMEs. Specifically, the coefficient of bank size, its profitability and inflation variables are negative demonstrating that in Ghana, bigger, most profitable banks and high inflation period limit credit to the SMEs sector. The coefficients of board size and bank origin variables were found to be positive indicating banks with huge board size and foreign banks tend to provide more credit to SMEs. Originality/value The main value of this paper is to examine determinants of Ghanaian banks credit to the “Missing Middle.” A supply side approach.

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Atiemo, Abamfo. "Zetaheal Mission in Ghana: Christians and Muslims Worshipping Together?" Exchange 32, no. 1 (2003): 15–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254303x00109.

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Dalton, Richard. "Operation Hernia mission to northern Ghana – a trainee's experience." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 92, no. 5 (May 1, 2010): 162–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363510x500663.

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Mohr, Adam. "Missionary Medicine and Akan Therapeutics: Illness, Health and Healing in Southern Ghana's Basel Mission, 1828-1918." Journal of Religion in Africa 39, no. 4 (2009): 429–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/002242009x12529098509803.

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AbstractThe Basel missionaries in southern Ghana came from a strong religious healing tradition in southwest Germany that, within some circles, had reservations about the morality and efficacy of biomedicine in the nineteenth century. Along with Akan Christians, these missionaries in Ghana followed local Akan healing practices before the colonial period was formalized, contrary to a pervasive discourse condemning local religion and healing as un-Christian. Around 1885, however, a radical shift in healing practices occurred within the mission and in Germany that corresponded to both the Bacteriological Revolution and the formal colonial period. In 1885 the first medical missionary from Basel arrived in Ghana, while at the same time missionaries began supporting biomedicine exclusively. This posed a great problem for Akan Christians, who began to seek Akan healers covertly. Akan Christians argued with their European coreligionists that Akan healing was a form of culturally relative therapy, not a rival theology.

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Warren, Dennis Michael. "Islam in Nigeria." American Journal of Islam and Society 5, no. 1 (September 1, 1988): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v5i1.2888.

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Islam in Nigeria is the product of A. R. I. Doi's twenty years of research on the spread and development of Islam in Nigeria. Professor Doi, currently the director of the Centre for Islamic Legal Studies at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, has also taught at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka and the University of lfe. His lengthy tenure in the different major geographical zones of Nigeria is reflected in the book. The twenty-one chapters begin with a general introductory overview of the spread of Islam in West Africa. Part I is devoted to the impact of Islam in the Northern States of Nigeria, Part II deals with the more recent spread of Islam into the Southern Nigerian States and Part III explicates a wide variety of issues germane to the understanding of Islam at the national level. The book is comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and is based on analyses of secondary sources as well as primary field research conducted in all parts of Nigeria. The book has nine maps, seventy-three photographs, detailed notes at the end of each chapter, a bibliography and an index. Professor Doi traces the spread of Islam through North Africa into the Ancient Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai. As Islam moved into the Northern part of Nigeria, it had a dramatic impact on the seven Hausa states and on the Fulani peoples who carried out the jihad under Shehu Utham Dan Fodio and the Fulani Sultans of Sokoto. A link was established between the Umawz Arabs and the Kanem-Bornu State. Islam also influenced the Nupe and Ebirra peoples. With the arrival of the Royal Niger Company, British Imperialism and Christian missions began to move into Northern Nigeria about 1302 AH/1885 AC. The impact of colonialism and Christianity upon Islam in Northern Nigeria is analyzed by Dr. Doi. Of particular interest is the analysis of syncretism between Islam and the indigenous cultures and religions of Northern Nigeria. The Boori Cult and the belief in al-Jinni are described. The life cycle of the Hausa-Fulani Muslims includes descriptions of the ceremonies conducted at childbirth, the naming of a new child, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death. Non-Islamic beliefs which continue to persist among Muslims in Northern Nigeria are identified ...

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Nicolas, Claire. "Physical Education in the Colonial Gold Coast: From a Civilizing Mission to “Useful Citizens”." Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (February 22, 2021): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020077.

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This paper addresses the transfer of Physical Education to the Gold Coast, focusing on its shifting role in producing ideal subjects and its relationship to the imperial politics of the mid-20th century. It explores the contradictory ways in which, in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the training of young teachers in higher education institutions allowed for the transfer of British citizenship training codes into a colonial setting during the first half of the 20th century. It is focused on the conversation engaged between the Education Department of the Gold Coast and specialists in higher education institutions. The paper is based on archive material collected in the United Kingdom and Ghana.

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Nana Opare Kwakye, Abraham. "Returning African Christians in Mission to the Gold Coast." Studies in World Christianity 24, no. 1 (April 2018): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2018.0203.

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The transatlantic slave trade created an African diaspora in the Western world. Some of these diaspora Africans encountered and embraced the religion of their Western masters. Life in the Caribbean diaspora provided an opportunity for the nestling of ideas that were to shape the establishment of the Christian faith in Africa. Following the failures of European missionaries to make an impact in Africa in the early nineteenth century, freshly emancipated Christians from the Caribbean became agents of social transformation in the Gold Coast, Cameroun and Nigeria. Using archival records from Basel in Switzerland and Ghana, this paper explores the missionary initiative of Jamaican Christians who worked under the aegis of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society from 1843 to 1918. It provides evidence that these Jamaican Christians became principal agents for the success of the Basel Mission's enterprise in the Gold Coast in the nineteenth century. The paper argues against a Eurocentric approach to mission historiography that has obviated the roles of Africans in the nineteenth century and demonstrates the legacy which these returning Africans have left the church in Africa.

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Hunter, Anita, and Leda McKenry. "An advanced practice international health initiative: The Ghana Health Mission." Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners 5, no. 4 (July 2001): 240–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/xc.2001.25899.

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Phanuel Kofi Darbi, William. "How do high‐performing organizations define their mission in Ghana?" African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 3, no. 2 (September 14, 2012): 184–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20400701211264992.

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Donkor, Ghulam Ahmed Bin, Mohammed Kweku Baidoo, Ebenezer Malcalm, and Godfrey Adda. "An Investigation of the Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and Organizational Outcomes among Nurses in Selected Mission Hospitals in Ghana." International Business Research 14, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v14n1p55.

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The study investigated the relationship between perceived organizational support and organizational outcomes among nurses of selected mission hospitals in Ghana. Compared with Public Sector hospitals, Mission hospitals in Ghana operate with very limited resources. Thus, they have very little to incentivize their staff. Nonetheless, there is the general assumption that employers who demonstrate generous disposition towards their employees will reap reciprocal benefits. Such employees work beyond the job demands even in periods of serious financial difficulties. Phenomenology research design under the qualitative research method was used to find answers to the research questions. A sample size of 40 was drawn through purposive sampling technique from five selected Mission Hospitals in Bono and Bono East Regions of Ghana. Data collection tools used in the study were interview and observation. The data analysis went through compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting and concluding, phases. The text was sorted based on predefined themes. Illustrative words from the original field notes were selected and placed in a table. Initial (level 1) codes mimicked the original information in the case of semantic coding process and, in the case of latent coding, meanings imbedded in the text were generated; this was presented in a form of discourse analysis. When the perceptible index of employees is made up of benevolence, care and celebration; when employees perceive employers who are concerned about their goals and values, and are willing to help them when they need special favour, they become a part of the organization and are ready to work beyond the job demands. Hence, organizations are advised to resource their human resource departments adequately to be able to respond to the needs and aspirations of their employees.

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Beutter, Anne. "Church Discipline Chronicled – A New Source for Basel Mission Historiography." History in Africa 42 (May 4, 2015): 109–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hia.2015.17.

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AbstractThis article uses a hitherto overlooked category of historical source, an outstation chronicle covering the period 1911‒1920. It shows how juridical practice within the Protestant mission church of Nkoranza (then in the Ashanti region of what is now central Ghana) created and sharpened a Christian group identity in a predominantly non-Christian context. It is argued that the interdependence of the in-group and out-group at the local level helped to shape the church’s juridical forms.

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Abor, Patience Aseweh. "The effects of healthcare governance and ownership structure on the performance of hospitals in Ghana." International Journal of Law and Management 57, no. 2 (March 9, 2015): 107–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-04-2014-0031.

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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of health-care governance and ownership structure on the performance of hospitals in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses multiple regression models based on a sample of 132 hospitals in Ghana. Findings – The results of the study indicate that hospitals with a governing board perform better than those without a governing board. The results of this study also suggest that board characteristics and ownership structure are important in explaining the performance of hospitals in Ghana. The results further indicate that mission-based and private hospitals with effective board governance structures exhibit better performance than public hospitals. Originality/value – This study makes a number of new and meaningful contributions to the extant literature and the findings support managerialism, stakeholder and resource dependency theories. The findings also have important implications for the effective governance of hospitals.

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Turfan, Barbara. "Waltraud Haas, Paul Jenkins and others (ed.): Guide to the Basel Mission's Ghana Archive. 2nd updated edition, [iv], 92 pp. Basel: Basel Mission, 1985." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 51, no. 3 (October 1988): 628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00117513.

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Abdalla, Sala, and Chris Oppong. "Global surgery volunteerism with operation hernia: a trainee surgeon’s experience." International Surgery Journal 5, no. 11 (October 26, 2018): 3785. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20184667.

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Access to adequate health services is a universal right for individuals and lack of it can have adverse consequences. The elective hernia repair rate in Ghana remains low and a considerable number of inguinal hernias still present as emergencies. Operation hernia is a charitable, UK-based organization that supports the healthcare infrastructure in Ghana through the provision of elective hernia repairs to prevent complications. Mesh repairs are carried out using sterilized, affordable mesh which is made of polyester and is a cheaper alternative to the expensive, commercial mesh. In November 2017 Operation hernia sent two teams of Surgeons and scrub nurses to work in two hospitals in Ghana. This was a successful mission that resulted in more than 150 successful hernia repairs. This article is written by a full-time general surgical ST6 Registrar detailing her first experience as a volunteer surgeon in Volta Regional Hospital in the town of Ho and the rewards reaped from this global surgical volunteerism experience.

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Quayesi-Amakye, Joseph. "A YEAST IN THE FLOUR: PENTECOSTALISM AS THE AFRICAN REALISATION OF THE GOSPEL." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 3 (February 23, 2017): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/1591.

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The paper discusses the contributions of Pentecostalism to the development of the Christian faith in Ghana and Africa. It argues that Pentecostalism is what fulfils the aspirations and quest of Ghanaian (African) Christians in their search for authentic Christian life. Christianity came to West Africa as a Western contextualised religion impinged by the nineteenth-century rationalisation, the product of the Enlightenment. This paper contends that Pentecostals influence the ethos and praxis of older mission churches in Ghana. It describes, analyses and assesses the various ways Pentecostals are helping to integrate the Christian faith into the religio-social contexts of Ghanaians. This is a complete paradigm shift from their earlier posture to social matters.

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Arlt, Veit, and Ernst Lichtenhahn. "Recordings of African Popular Music: A Valuable Source for Historians of Africa." History in Africa 31 (2004): 389–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003557.

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In December 2002 the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology (CH-EM), in cooperation with the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and with mission 21 (formerly Basel Mission), organized a symposium on the theme “Popular Music from Ghana: Historical Records as a Contribution to the Study of African History and Culture.” The conference concluded a week of lectures, workshops, and concerts with Ghanaian “palmwine” and Highlife music, a program which was realized in cooperation with the Basel Academy of Music and the two associations, Ghana Popular Music 1931-1957 and Scientific African e.V. The papers read at the symposium are, in our opinion, of interest to the readers of History in Africa, as they discuss a specific kind of source and the methodological issues pertaining to it, as well as offer insights into possible themes of research, giving some idea of the potential of the recordings as a source. We present the contributions here in a slightly revised form, and, in order to round off the discussion, we have invited the curators of two further sound collections of interest to scholars working on African history, to describe their archives.

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Antwi, Daniel J. "THE AFRICAN FACTOR IN CHRISTIAN MISSION TO AFRICA: A STUDY OF MORAVIAN AND BASEL MISSION INITIATIVES IN GHANA." International Review of Mission 87, no. 344 (January 1998): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.1998.tb00066.x.

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Arlt, Veit. "The Union Trade Company and Its Recordings: An Unintentional Documentation of West African Popular Music, 1931–1957." History in Africa 31 (2004): 393–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003569.

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This paper introduces a unique collection of roughly 700 historical recordings of African popular music generated by a Swiss trading company, which today is located at the archives of mission 21 (formerly Basel Missioin) in Basel. The music was recorded and distributed by the Union Trade Company of Basel (UTC) during the 1930s and 1950s in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. The collection represents a rich resource for the study of African history and cultures and caters for the growing interest shown by social historians of Africa in everyday life and accordingly in leisure activities and consumption.As music and dance undoubtedly play an important role in African social and religious life, they have received much attention and there is a longstanding tradition of ethnomusicological research that has led to a great number of sound collections. The historian interested in the “modern” and “postmodern” or in popular culture, however, tends in many cases to be frustrated by the material contained in these archives. The ethnographic collectors often showed a blind eye to the modernizing forces within the African musical cultures they researched and concentrated on documenting what they perceived as the “original” or “traditional.” Furthermore the collection and documentation of the popular music of the day was rarely on the agenda of national research institutions and archives in postcolonial Africa. In the case of Ghana at least three initiatives have resulted in important collections of music that go beyond a narrow ethnographic documentation. The first, by Prof. Kwabena Nketia at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Ghana, features a mixture of field recordings and a few commercial records. The others focus specifically on the commercial and popular. These are the Gramophone Records Museum in Cape Coast, discussed below by its founder Kwame Sarpong and the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF) of John Collins in Accra.

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Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena. "Bediako of Africa: A Late 20th Century Outstanding Theologian and Teacher." Mission Studies 26, no. 1 (2009): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338309x442335.

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AbstractKwame Bediako of the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture based in Akropong-Akwapim in Ghana, was a stalwart in the field of African Christianity and Theology. He was called home to glory in June 2008 at the age of 63 years. Converted from atheism whilst studying for a doctorate degree in French and African literature at the University of Bordeaux in France, Bediako embraced a conservative evangelical faith. He went on to do a second PhD in Theology under the tutelage of Andrew F. Walls in Aberdeen. Bediako returned to Ghana in 1984 to found the then Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Center for Mission Research and Applied Theology. Through that initiative, now a fully accredited tertiary theological educational institute, Bediako pioneered a new way of doing theology through his emphasis on mother-tongue hermeneutics, oral or grassroots theology, and the study of primal religions as the sub-structure of Christian expression in the majority Two Thirds World. These ideas are outlined in his major publications, Theology and Identity, Christianity in Africa, Jesus of Africa, and the many forceful and insightful articles scattered in local and international journals in religion and theology. For many years to come, although living in glory, Bediako's evangelical intellectual heritage will continue as a leading reference point for all those seeking to understand Africa's place in the history of world Christianity.

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Asamoah-Gyadu, Kwabena. "Pentecostalism in Africa and the Changing Face of Christian Mission." Mission Studies 19, no. 1 (2002): 14–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338302x00161.

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AbstractThird World Christianity has been experiencing exponential growth since the turn of the twentieth century. Nowhere is this renewal in Christianity more visible than Africa, where religious innovations led by indigenous Christians have mostly been Pentecostal in character. The Pentecostal movements leading the current renewal of Christianity in African countries like Ghana are autonomous, independent of both the established historic mission denominations and the older classical Pentecostal churches like the Assemblies of God. Ghanaian Pentecostalism in its various streams has adapted the global Pentecostal culture to suit the needs of the local context in ways that have changed the nature and direction of Christian mission. The traditional themes of healing, deliverance, prosperity and empowerment associated with the global Pentecostal movement have been synthesized with traditional worldviews, giving Pentecostal Christianity an added relevance in African context. This has yielded massive responses. In Pentecostal movements under discussion, therefore, one finds the ingenious ability of indigenous Christians to appropriate a phenomenon of global significance for local consumption.

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Ampofo, Emmanuel Yaw, and Kwasi Dartey-Baah. "Missing Link between Quality of Work Life and Productivity of Loan Disbursement: The Ghanaian Perspective." International Journal of Business and Management 11, no. 3 (February 26, 2016): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v11n3p203.

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The study examines the impact of credit officers’ Quality of Work Life (QWL) on productivity of loan disbursement in 10 selected Savings and Loans Companies in the Accra, Ghana. The study was quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical. Out of 1602 employees, 310 employees were sampled. Simple random sampling technique was used to select both companies and respondents. 92% of questionnaires were self-administered and 8% were e-mailed. The finding indicated a significant positive impact of credit officers’ QWL on productivity of loan disbursement (β= .274, p<.001).<strong> </strong>It was suggested that it will be profitable to and prudent on the part of managers not to play with the QWL of credit officers if they really want to experience an increase in loan disbursement. Also, managers’ comprehensive focus on the general happiness of credit officers by ensuring employees’ holistic well-being in the organisation will lead to productivity of loan disbursement. The study becomes the first to research on both credit officers and productivity of loan disbursement in the financial sector of Ghana.

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Steegstra, Marijke. "'A MIGHTY OBSTACLE TO THE GOSPEL': BASEL MISSIONARIES, KROBO WOMEN, AND CONFLICTING IDEAS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY." Journal of Religion in Africa 32, no. 2 (2002): 200–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006602320292915.

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AbstractTo this day, the Krobo people in highly Christianised Southern Ghana celebrate their annual girls' initiation rites (dipo). However, the rites have been a much contested matter ever since the arrival of the Basel missionaries, who strongly objected to dipo. In this paper, I investigate the 19th-century encounter between the Basel missionaries and the Krobo by focusing on dipo. An ethno-historical analysis of dipo provides a valuable entry point into investigating the interaction of the mission with Krobo people, and issues of mission, gender, and identity. The striking intersection between 'traditional' Krobo and the Basel missionaries' concerns was women's sexuality and morality. Their conflicting ideas about gender and sexuality are the key to answering the question why one of the most lingering conflicts originating from missionary attempts to redefine the life-patterns of the Krobo revolves around the dipo rites.

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Asante, Charles. "Ghana and the United Nations’ 1960s mission in the Congo: a Pan-African explanation." Third World Quarterly 41, no. 3 (October 29, 2019): 470–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1678383.

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Koonar, Catherine. "Using child labor to save souls: the Basel Mission in colonial Ghana, 1855–1900." Atlantic Studies 11, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 536–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2014.972245.

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O., Justice, and Emmanuel O.A. "The Creation of Abelengro: A Cross-Cultural Art Music Composition." Journal of Advanced Research and Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 1 (May 14, 2021): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/jarms-mzflgssm.

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Ethnomusicology has an important mission of providing a body of musical knowledge that can be drawn on by artist-composers, performers, dancers as well as scholars in the field of music. The paper therefore presents an outcome of a creative ethnomusicological study of abele music among the Yeji people of the Bono-East Region in Ghana. Using Euba’s theory of creative ethnomusicology and Nketia’s concept of syncretism, the study highlights the indigenous elements of abele musical genre and unearths the process where these elements were used to create a musical artefact called Abelengro. Data for the study were collected through observation and adopted definitive analysis to provide the materials for the composition. The study revealed that Abele music contains rich source materials for creating a neoclassicism of African traditional music that could be enjoyed by a wide range of people. It is envisaged that these rich indigenous musical elements and idioms are harnessed by contemporary art musicians to achieve the uniqueness of African identity in art music compositions in Ghana.

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Dumenu, William Kwadwo. "What are we missing? Economic value of an urban forest in Ghana." Ecosystem Services 5 (September 2013): 137–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.07.001.

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Amoatey, Charles, and Mawuena Vincent Kodzo Hayibor. "Critical success factors for local government project stakeholder management." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 7, no. 2 (May 11, 2017): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-07-2016-0030.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) for effective project stakeholder management at the local government level in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study used data from questionnaires administered to project stakeholders for identifying and ranking CSFs. Findings The study identified the top five CSFs for stakeholder management at the local government level in Ghana to be: communicating with and engaging stakeholders; identifying stakeholders properly; formulating a clear project mission statement; keeping and promoting good relationships; and analyzing stakeholder conflicts and coalitions. Research limitations/implications Generalization of the findings should be done with caution since the scope of data collection was limited to district assemblies in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Nevertheless the results of the study are, however, useful and indicative and can lend direction to future research. Practical implications This paper has contributed to the growing body of knowledge related to CSFs for local government projects. The results should help understand factors which are of priority to stakeholders when assessing their involvement in projects. Further, the findings could form the basis for competency development of local government personnel in specific areas where improvements are required. Originality/value The paper identified CSFs for effective project stakeholder management at the local level. Most studies on critical factors in project environments have focused on CSFs and project success and thus this study delves into an area which has not received much attention in the literature.

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Gatti, Nicoletta, and Daniel Yeboah. "Cursing Back to Life? From Psalms to Imprecatory Prayers: An Intercultural Reading." Biblische Zeitschrift 63, no. 1 (February 5, 2019): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890468-06301001.

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Abstract Imprecatory prayer is becoming a common phenomenon in Ghana. This plea seeks the complete annihilation of human enemies believed to be the cause of the woes the petitioners face. However, ecclesiastic authorities and academic world find it difficult to dialogue with the practice and reject imprecatory prayers as ‘unchristian.’ Interestingly enough, the same attitude is manifested towards portions of the Bible which contain ‘imprecatory prayers’: The Psalter. As a consequence, while the Historic Mission Churches forbid imprecatory prayers, their members flock to the Charismatic and Prophetic Churches. Against this background, the article analyses Ps 58, one of the ‘imprecatory psalms’ excluded by the official prayers of Historic Mission Churches, to understand its call to action and the perlocutory effect on the reader. The article concludes that the ‘imprecatory prayers’ can be a powerful educational tool to see the world with the eyes of the victims: it offers them a model of prayer of “cursing back to life;” a painful way to reconciliation and to rediscovering justice.

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Jenkins, Paul, and Michelle Gilbert. "The King, His Soul and the Pastor: Three Views of a Conflict in Akropong 1906-7." Journal of Religion in Africa 38, no. 4 (2008): 359–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006608x375516.

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AbstractIn 1906-7, in Akwapim, a small kingdom in southern Ghana (then the Gold Coast), a bitter conflict occurred between the king, Nana Kwasi Akuffo, and Kwasi Fianko, a wealthy trader who had been appointed as the king's 'soul' (okra) but who later decided to resign his position and rejoin the Christian community. Two detailed accounts addressed to the Basel Mission were written by an indigenous pastor and his superior, a long-serving missionary. They recount the conflict, the negotiations that ensued, and the complex relations between the king and the Basel Mission community. These reports depict the ambitions and the everyday conduct of a poor king and a wealthy commoner, the one a non-Christian and the other a Christian, in the early years of the twentieth century. They also describe the position of the 'soul' in an Akan court, and the central importance of money in a kingdom lacking important natural resources.

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Abor, Patience Aseweh. "Examining gender diversity on hospital boards in Ghana." International Journal of Health Governance 22, no. 4 (December 4, 2017): 269–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhg-04-2017-0016.

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Purpose The issue of gender diversity on hospital boards plays a significant role in the financial health and clinical performance of hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of gender diversity of hospital boards in Ghana. Specifically, this study examined the proportion of females on hospital boards and considered how hospital-level characteristics such as hospital size, age, location and ownership structure explain the board gender diversity of hospital boards in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach based on 100 hospitals was used. Findings The results of the study indicate that women are represented on all hospitals with governing boards but with different proportions depending on ownership form. In all, women represent less than half of board membership. Smaller and older hospitals were found to have more female representation on their board. Also, not-for-profit mission and for-profit private hospitals tend to engage more females than their counterpart public hospitals. Research limitations/implications The study examined female representation on hospital boards depending on only hospital-level characteristics such as hospital size, age, location and ownership. Other factors could be determining the appointment of females on hospital boards other than hospital characteristics. Social implications Efforts on improving the role of women on hospital boards need to be encouraged. Originality/value Evidence from this study clearly suggests underrepresentation of women in the top echelons of hospitals owned by government or the state, bigger and newer hospitals.

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Kalsbeek, Feiko, Bjørn Hermansen, Christian Knudsen, Leif Thorning, and Marianne Thorsen. "Co-operation with the Geological Survey Department of Ghana." Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin 4 (July 20, 2004): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v4.4796.

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Between October 2001 and the end of 2003 there was a close co-operation between the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and the Geological Survey Department of Ghana (GSD), as part of a project to enhance GSD’s institutional capabilities and effectiveness, mainly in the fields of management, geological mapping, map production and data handling. During this period a team of geologists, GIS (Geographic Information System) and database experts as well as administrative staff from GEUS have visited GSD, and GSD officers have visited GEUS in Copenhagen. The main obstacles to GSD becoming an effective organisation are its status as a department under the Ghana Ministry of Mines, insufficient funding by the government, and poor remuneration of its professional staff. To overcome these obstacles, attempts are being made to change the status of GSD from a ‘civil servant organisation’ into a semiautonomous institution, which will permit the Survey to generate funding for its core activities by providing services to outside organisations, and pay better salaries to its personnel. Despite many problems, geological mapping has been resumed and three new geological maps have been produced by GSD during the project and stored in GIS format. A mapping manual has been prepared, and the structure and ‘Mission and Vision Statements’ for the Survey have been revised.

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Nelson, Teresa, Cynthia Ingols, Jennifer Christian-Murtie, and Paul Myers. "Susan Murcott and Pure Home Water: Building a Sustainable Mission-Driven Enterprise in Northern Ghana." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 37, no. 4 (May 23, 2011): 961–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6520.2011.00448.x.

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Werner, Dietrich. "WCC CONSULTATION ON MISSION, HEALTH AND HEALING, ACCRA, GHANA 4-8 DECEMBER 2002 REFLECTOR'S REPORT." International Review of Mission 93, no. 370-371 (July 10, 2004): 379–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6631.2004.tb00467.x.

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Akakpo, Patrick Kafui, Emmanuel Gustav Imbeah, Francis Agyarko-Wiredu, Kennedy Awlavi, Kwame Baah-Amoh, and Leonard Derkyi-Kwarteng. "Community Causes of Death in the Central Region of Ghana, the Missing Piece in Mortality Data." Advances in Public Health 2020 (April 29, 2020): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2714616.

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Objective. Mortality data from hospitals in Ghana suggest a changing mortality trend with noncommunicable diseases (cardiovascular disorders) replacing communicable diseases as the leading cause of death. Our objective was to find out the causes of deaths in the communities of the Central Region of Ghana and raise awareness of these causes of deaths while highlighting the differences that exist between data obtained from the community and that obtained from the hospital. Method. Mortality data from Coroner’s autopsies mostly provide data about the causes of deaths in the community (out of hospital). A retrospective descriptive study of Coroner’s autopsy data at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital was carried out over a six-year period. The various causes of death were categorized according to broad headings (accidents/injuries/poisoning, cardiovascular, infections, metabolic, neoplasms, and others). Results. A total of 1187 autopsies were reviewed of which 990 (83.4%) were Coroner’s cases. Of these Coroner’s cases, 719 (72.6%) were male and 271 (27.4%) were female. 521 (52.6%) of victims were young adults (18–44 years), and majority of deaths were unnatural (due to accidents, injuries, and poisoning) (64.1%), followed by the general category of others (15.3%). Cardiovascular deaths (6.6%) were fourth after infections (9.8%). In the leading category, most deaths were due to road traffic accidents (50.4%) as occupants of vehicles and motorcycles (28.7%) and as pedestrians (21.7%). Deaths due to road traffic accidents were followed by deaths due to drowning (14.96%). Conclusion. Although noncommunicable diseases are still the leading causes of death outside the hospital, most of the deaths are due to road traffic accidents and drowning. This is at variance with hospital data that suggest that the leading noncommunicable diseases are cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Again, like data derived from hospitals, infections remain a major cause of death in the Central Region of Ghana. Studies combining the causes of death derived from Coroner’s autopsies and communities and from medical certificates of cause of death will present a better picture of the leading causes of death in the Central Region and reveal the true nature of noncommunicable diseases that currently form our largest disease burden.

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Gadzekpo, Audrey. "Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B. S. Gadzekpo." Africa 91, no. 2 (February 2021): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000012.

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AbstractThis article introduces a personalized account of the early years of radio in Ghana based on an unpublished manuscript by one of its pioneering broadcasters – Bernard Senedzi (B. S.) Gadzekpo. An accomplished writer who produced manuscripts in both English and the Eʋe language, Gadzekpo's radio memoir is written from the vantage point of someone who worked in both the colonial and postcolonial broadcast service for nearly thirty years. It foregrounds African broadcasters in the history of radio and offers insights into the complex realities of Africa's mutable encounter with radio and the strategic role played by local intellectuals in fulfilling its modernization mission during and after the colonial period.

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Ampaw, Enock Mintah, Junwu Chai, Biru Liang, Sang-Bing Tsai, and Joseph Frempong. "Assessment on health care service quality and patients’ satisfaction in Ghana." Kybernetes 49, no. 12 (January 10, 2020): 3047–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k-06-2019-0409.

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Purpose With the exigencies of health-care service quality to actualize sustainable socio-economic and developmental aspirations, in both peripheral and core countries, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence on health-care service quality and its precursor – patients’ satisfaction, and continuous service utilization. Design/methodology/approach A total of 398 screened questionnaires were analyzed from selected hospitals of the Koforidua, Ghana. Findings from the structural equation modeling showed a significant association among perceived quality, patients’ satisfaction and tangibility. Contrary to the expectations, the results did not show a significant association among the constructs – perceived quality, safety and empathy. Again, the model fit indices collaboratively showed that the hypothesized model overwhelmingly “fit” the sample data, and further proved the predictive robustness of the model. Findings The results of the analysis demonstrate that patients were discontent with empathy and safety measures at the hospitals. However, tangible and perceived quality were identified as significant predictors of patients’ satisfaction. Originality/value There is a dearth of empirical investigations on the assessment of health-care service quality and patients’ satisfaction in developing economies such as Ghana. Therefore, the implication of the study will equip the top hierarchy of the Health System of Ghana in achieving their mission, and objectives in line with quality service delivery. In particular, MoH and GHS can embark on a routine exercise to audit the hospitals for re-accreditation, and provide CCT cameras to improve safety and security conditions at the hospitals, while enforcing the culture of receptive hospital environment to improve empathy.

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