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Adeduntan, Ayo. "Digitising an African Studies Audiovisual Archive: Moves, Setbacks, Lessons." African Research & Documentation 139 (2021): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00023979.
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As a subset of the well-known increasing subordination of the humanities in the academy, there have always been recurrent attempts to territorially contain the discipline of African Studies on the continent. The attempts at containment are sometimes informed by factors that include concerns about contiguous disciplines within the same institution and the formal identification of African Studies with institutes which signs difference to orthodox university faculties and departments. I will cite two examples, temporally separated from each other by almost one century, to illustrate the currency of this internal suspicion. In the decade before independence, one of the earliest attempts at starting an academic department in the discipline at the University College, Ghana, was stymied by the territorial apprehension that “any new institute should not replicate work in the [other] disciplines… and that a new institute should not ‘usurp the research side of all relevant departments’” (Allman, 2013:185).
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Saele, Helena. "The 2010 APSA Workshop on Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 18–August 6, 2010." PS: Political Science & Politics 43, no. 04 (October 2010): 851–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096510001563.
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The APSA Workshop on Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender was convened in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from July 18 to August 6. It was the third annual residential workshop of a multi-year initiative that APSA is organizing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2008 though 2014. The first workshop took place in Dakar, Senegal (2008), at the facilities of the West African Research Center; the second workshop was convened in Accra, Ghana (2009), at the Institute for African Studies and the University of Ghana, Legon.
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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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Riggs, Alma. "Akwaaba! My Welcome to Ghana." African Issues 28, no. 1-2 (2000): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500007046.
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I first landed on African soil in August 1999, prepared to begin a yearlong master’s program in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. During my final year as an undergraduate majoring in international affairs at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, I had applied for and was awarded a scholarship from the Rotary International Foundation. Although I had about nine months to prepare myself for my stay in Ghana, the reality of everything I saw and experienced there defied and often surpassed my expectations. The university is in Legon, a short distance north of the capital city of Accra. Accra is an enormous, sprawling city, and I really didn’t expect it to be quite so big. But with a map in hand, it was fairly simple to get from place to place, and people went out of their way to make sure I got to where I was going, if I asked for help. There is a lot of poverty, a lot of children who are on the streets selling odds and ends rather than going to school, and a lot of pollution (air, water, land, noise—you name it). But there is also an enormously warm feeling there, which is somehow indescribable. Friendliness and helpfulness seem to be characteristic, and despite the healthy dose of precaution I tried to maintain, I had the feeling (and I have been told, as well) that Accra is a very safe city.
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Journal system. "6 - Solidarity Messages." CODESRIA Bulletin, no. 02-03-04 (August 17, 2021): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.57054/cb02-03-042003613.
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Babatunde A. Ahonsi, Ph.D, Senior Program Officer The Ford Foundation Office for West Africa, Nigeria.
Tove Strand, Director of NORAD, Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation, Norway
President, Sida Sweden
Joseph R.A. Ayee, PhD, Professor / Dean Faculty of Social Studies, University of Ghana
Helmi Sharawy, Arab Research Center
Hage G. Geingob, Executive Secretary, Global Coalition for Africa
Dr Lennart Wohlgemuth, Director & Dr Henning Melber, Research Director, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
For the Pan African Association of Anthropology, Dr. Socpa Antoine, Executive Secretary
Alfred G. Nhema, Executive Secretary, OSSREA (Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa)
Nouria Remaoun, Centre Nationale de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, CRASC Oran, Algeria
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Avenyo, Stevens Justice, Nelson Saviour Kwashie, and John Demuyakor. "Online sports betting in universities: Does online sports betting addictions impact the academic achievements and social relations of students?" Journal of Digital Educational Technology 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2024): ep2402. http://dx.doi.org/10.30935/jdet/14039.
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The debate on the effects of online sports betting addictions on the academic achievements and social relations of many students in higher educational institutions has dominated most public discourse in recent years in Ghana. Ghana and many other African countries have declared online sports betting addictions among students as a national security emergency. Therefore, the researchers grounded this study on gaming theory, to explore the relationship between online sports betting addictions, academic achievements, and social relations among university students (n=245 & aged 18-25). The study adopted stratified random sampling to select 245 level 100 and 200 students, while five universities were purposively sampled. The universities include Ghana Telecommunication University, University of Professional Studies, Accra, University of Ghana, Ghana Communication University, and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. Regression analysis and structural modeling were adopted to test three hypotheses and validate the study model. The testing of <b>H<sub>1</sub></b> and <b>H<sub>2</sub> </b>established a significant negative relationship between online sports betting addictions, academic achievement, and the social relationships of students. <b>H<sub>3</sub>, </b>however, reported some differences between male and female students’ online sports betting addictions and their social relations, as well as academic achievements. Based on the findings, this study concludes that online sports betting addictions among university students have negative academic and social relationship implications.
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A. Sanuade, Olutobi, Leonard Baatiemaa, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Ama De-Graft Aikins. "Improving stroke care in Ghana: a roundtable discussion with communities, healthcare providers, policymakers and civil society organisations." Ghana Medical Journal 55, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 147–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v55i2.8.
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Even though there have been advances in medical research and technology for acute stroke care treatment and management globally, stroke mortality has remained high, with a higher burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Ghana. In Ghana, stroke mortality and disability rates are high, and research on post-stroke survival care is scarce. The available evidence suggests that Ghanaian stroke survivors and their caregivers seek treatment from pluralistic health care providers. However, no previous attempt has been made to bring them together to discuss issues around stroke care and rehabilitation. To address this challenge, researchers from the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, in collaboration with researchers from the African Centre of Excellence for Non-communicable diseases (ACE-NCDs), University of Ghana, organised a one-day roundtable to discuss issues around stroke care. The purpose of the roundtable was fourfold. First, to initiate discussion/collaborations among biomedical, ethnomedical and faith-based healthcare providers and stroke patients and their caregivers around stroke care. Second, to facilitate discussion on experiences with stroke care. Third, to understand the healthcare providers’, health systems’, and stroke survivors’ needs to enhance stroke care in Ghana. Finally, to define practical ways to improve stroke care in Ghana.
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Akoi-Jackson, Bernard, and R. Lane Clark. "“Still 2 Trouble(S) One God”: Art Exhibition at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon." Ghana Studies 12, no. 1 (2009): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ghs.2009.0011.
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Akoi-Jackson, Bernard, and R. Lane Clark. "“Still 2 Trouble(s) One God”: Art Exhibition at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon." Ghana Studies 12-13, no. 1 (2011): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/gs.12-13.1.263.
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Takeuchi, Kazuhiko, and Edwin Akonno Gyasi. "Special Issue on Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa." Journal of Disaster Research 9, no. 4 (August 1, 2014): 411. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0411.
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In 2011, a collaborative project focused on climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience studies in Africa (CECAR-Africa) with Ghana as the focal country, was initiated. The goal was to combine climate change and ecosystem change research, and to use that combination as a basis for building an integrated resilience enhancement strategy as a potential model for semi-arid regions across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Project is being financially supported by the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), a collaborative programme of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). CECAR-Africa involves the following leading climate and ecosystems research organizations in Ghana and Japan: The University of Tokyo; Kyoto University; United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS); University of Ghana; Ghana Meteorological Agency; University for Development Studies; and United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNUINRA). CECAR-Africa has been operating fully since 2012, with a focus on three thematic areas, namely: Forecast and assessment of climate change impact on agro-ecosystems (Agro-ecosystem resilience); Risk assessment of extreme weather hazards and development of adaptive resource management methods (Engineering resilience); and Implementing capacity development programs for local communities and professionals (social institutions-technical capacity development) using the assessment results derived from work on the first two themes. This special issue presents major outcomes of the Project so far. The articles featured used various techniques and methods such as field surveys, questionnaires, focal group discussions, land use and cover change analysis, and climate downscaled modelling to investigate the impacts of climate and ecosystem changes on river flows and agriculture, and to assess the local capacity for coping with floods, droughts and disasters, and for enhancing the resilience of farming communities. We are happy to be able to publish this special issue just in time for an international conference on CECAR-Africa in Tamale, Ghana, on 6-7 August, 2014. It is hoped that the shared research outcomes will facilitate discussions on the project research themes and interactions and exchange of ideas among academics, professionals, and government officials on the way forward for the CECARAfrica Project. We find it only appropriate to conclude by thanking the authors and reviewers of the articles, and by acknowledging, with gratitude, the local knowledge and other bits and pieces of information contributed by the many anonymous farmers and other people of northern Ghana.
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Akussah, Harry. "A Calender of Kwame Nkrumah papers in the Documentation Centre of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1935-1948." African Research & Documentation 61 (1993): 12–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00018148.
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The potential of private papers as primary sources for research cannot be overemphasised. Unlike other archives, private papers can give researchers closer contact with their subjects since such papers frequently reflect natural human prejudices and emotions.The National Archives of Ghana (NAG), in accordance with article 5 of the Public Archives Ordinance No. 35 of 1955 in realising the immense value of private papers instituted a special programme in 1961 to systematically acquire and process papers relating to the Ghanaian president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah from all over the world. This laudable effort succeeded in enriching the stock of the Archives with Nkrumah's papers acquired from both the USA and Britain. In addition to papers there are his books and other documentary materials, which constitute his entire personal library during the period of his studies abroad.
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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.
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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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Kambon, Ọbádélé, and Roland Mireku Yeboah. "What Afrikan Names May (or May Not) Tell Us About the State of Pan-Afrikanism." Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 6 (August 29, 2019): 569–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934719867923.
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Names are important to Afrikan=Black people of the continent and diaspora as, traditionally, one’s name is seen as playing a crucial role in the fulfillment (or lack thereof) of one’s life purpose. However, due to enslavement and neo-enslavement in the diaspora as well as colonialism and neo-colonialism on the continent, many Afrikan=Black people now give their children the names of their enslavers or colonial enemies. In this article, we utilize a comparative anthroponymic analysis making use of case studies from two institutions, namely, the Institute of African Studies (IAS)–University of Ghana at Legon and Abibitumi Kasa, with locations in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Accra, Ghana, in order to observe how some Afrikan=Black people adopt Eurasian names and/or reclaim Afrikan names, as well as the forms such names take. In our findings, we observe that in the case of names from Abibitumi Kasa, pulling largely from the diaspora, Afrikan=Black individuals tend to have names from all over the Afrikan world whereby the first name may be from one cultural-linguistic group while the surname is from another. There also may be a disparity whereby a preferred Afrikan=Black name may be different from one’s “legal” name, which may still be Eurasian. In the case of IAS, we find that names tend to be either from colonial enemies, a single Afrikan cultural-linguistic group, or a mixture of these two. In conclusion, we argue that these tendencies of the continent and the diaspora as represented by these two Afrikan=Black institutions may serve as a litmus test for understanding the current state of Pan-Afrikanism.
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Akussah, Harry. "A Calendar of the Kwame Nkrumah Papers in the Documentation Centre of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 1935–1948." History in Africa 21 (1994): 389–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171896.
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Boamah, Peter Osei, and Yuh-Shan Ho. "Bibliometric Analysis of Ghana Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded." Revista de Biología Tropical 66, no. 1 (December 13, 2017): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v66i1.29250.
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Ghana is a West African country for which apparently there are limited scientometric studies. The objective of this study was to analyze the Ghanaian contribution to knowledge captured in the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) database from 1936 - 2016. The following data were analyzed: document type, the language of publication, publication trend, Web of Science Subject Categories, Journals, international collaboration, institutions, authors, and highly cited articles. Indicators such as the total number of articles, first author articles, and corresponding author articles were applied to compare publication performance for collaborative countries and institutions. Also, number of single institute articles: number of nationally collaborative articles: number of internationally collaborative articles (S : N : I) were also used to compare publication characteristics of institutions in Ghana. Results showed that publication trend increased from 1998 to 2015, with researches focusing on health and medicine. PLoS One was the top productive journal, and the most collaborative country for Ghana articles was the USA. Contributions from the University of Ghana were ranked the top one institution for Ghana articles, and higher citation papers were found in international collaborations. In conclusion, the contribution to knowledge of Ghanaian authors is massive in the areas of public, environmental and occupational health and tropical medicine but the impact factor is higher for immunology, infectious diseases, and microbiology articles. Therefore, Ghanaian authors are encouraged to publish more articles in high impact factor journals with Thomson Reuters Scientific indexing in order to have their researches recognized by the existing international databases.
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Bakel, M. A., H. Esen-Baur, Leen Boer, Bronislaw Malinowski, A. P. Borsboom, Betty Meehan, H. J. M. Claessen, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 141, no. 1 (1985): 149–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003405.
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Lambrecht, Nathalie, Dave Bridges, Bright Adu, Mark Wilson, Joseph Eisenberg, Gloria Folson, Ana Baylin, and Andrew Jones. "Enteric Pathogenic Infection in Young Ghanaian Children and Associations with Iron-Deficiency and Anemia." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (May 29, 2020): 856. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa053_061.
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Abstract Objectives We aimed to determine the burden of Campylobacter infection among children in Greater Accra, Ghana and assess whether infection is associated with iron-deficiency and anemia. Methods Blood and stool samples were collected from a random sample of 259 children aged 6 to 59 months residing in two districts in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Blood samples were analyzed for hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, the iron status biomarkers serum ferritin (SF) and serum transferrin receptor (sTfR), and the inflammatory biomarkers C-reactive protein (CRP) and α-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP). Anemia was defined as Hb < 11.0 g/dL and iron-deficiency as SF < 12 µg/L or sTfR > 8.3 mg/L. We used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) to analyze bacterial DNA from stool samples for Campylobacter species. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess child- and household-level predictors of infection. Results Overall, 16.2% of children were positive for Campylobacter infection, with the highest infection prevalence among children under two years old. Children positive for Campylobacter infection had 3.4 times higher odds of elevated CRP levels (95% CI: 1.66, 7.05) and 3.0 times higher odds of elevated AGP levels (95% CI: 1.61, 5.76), after adjusting for child age and sex, vitamin A deficiency, malaria, and household sanitation and wealth. Campylobacter infection was associated with 2.5 times higher odds of low SF (95% CI: 1.20, 5.12) and marginally higher odds of elevated sTfR (OR: 2.10, 95% CI: 0.96, 4.58), but was not significantly associated with higher odds of anemia (OR: 1.15, 95% CI: 0.69, 1.93). Ownership of small livestock, including goats, sheep, and pigs, but no other livestock, was associated with Campylobacter infection. Conclusions Our results suggest that Campylobacter infection contributes to the inflammatory burden among young children in Ghana and that infection may also negatively affect iron status. Furthermore, livestock may contribute to infectious pathogen exposure. Funding Sources University of Michigan (U-M) International Institute, U-M Office of Global Public Health, U-M African Studies Center, U-M Rackham Graduate School, U-M Nutritional Sciences Department, the Dow Chemical Company Foundation through the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at the University of Michigan.
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Lambrecht, Nathalie, Gloria Folson, Ana Baylin, Mark Wilson, Joseph Eisenberg, and Andrew Jones. "Associations Between Household Livestock Ownership and Anemia in Children 6 to 59 Months Old in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (May 29, 2020): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa042_005.
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Abstract Objectives We aimed to assess the relationship between household livestock ownership and childhood anemia in Ghana and examine whether animal-source food (ASF) consumption or illness mediates this association. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of 470 children aged 6 to 59 months in two districts of the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. We measured hemoglobin (Hb) concentration, iron status biomarkers (serum ferritin and serum transferrin receptor), and inflammatory biomarkers (C-reactive protein and α-1-acid glycoprotein). Mothers were asked about the child's consumption of ASF in the past 3 months and symptoms of illness in the past 7 days. Household livestock ownership was defined as owning no livestock, some poultry, many poultry, small livestock and poultry, or cattle, small livestock and poultry. Results Overall, 47.9% of children were anemic (Hb < 11.0 g/dL), and of these, 40.0% had iron deficiency based on low serum ferritin and 39.6% had elevated levels of inflammation. Children from households with cattle had lower odds of anemia (OR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.17, 0.88) compared to households with no livestock, adjusting for child and household sociodemographic characteristics. Among children 24–59 months old from households with both small livestock and poultry there were lower odds of anemia (OR: 0.34, 95% CI: 0.12, 0.95). Although poultry meat and cow milk consumption were higher among poultry- and cattle-owning households, respectively, we did not find that consumption of these foods mediated the association between livestock ownership and either anemia or iron deficiency. Furthermore, less than one-quarter of children consumed meat and eggs that were sourced from their household's own animals. There were no associations between livestock ownership and illness symptoms or inflammation. Conclusions Children living in households that owned small or large ruminants with poultry were less likely to be anemic, but this association was not mediated through higher consumption of ASF. Our study suggests that livestock may be beneficial in this Ghanaian context, but the pathways through which livestock impacts child anemia require further investigation. Funding Sources University of Michigan (U-M) International Institute, U-M Office of Global Public Health, U-M African Studies Center, U-M Rackham Graduate School, U-M Nutritional Sciences Department.
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Ido, Eiji, Takashi Suzuki, William K. Ampofo, Irene Ayi, Shoji Yamaoka, Kwadwo A. Koram, and Nobuo Ohta. "Joint Research Project on Infectious Diseases in West-African Subregion." Journal of Disaster Research 9, no. 5 (October 1, 2014): 813–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0813.
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A research collaboration project in Ghana has joined the MEXT program supported by the Japanese government since 2008. The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), the University of Ghana, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) are core parties in the project, and researchers from other institutions also participate temporarily. Two TMDU faculty members are sent to Ghana to manage and implement joint research projects for virology and parasitology, which cover HIV, African trypanosomes, malaria parasites, and vector insects. Along with joint research, mutual exchange activities for young researchers and students have been promoted to develop human resources in tropical infectious disease research. Subjects in our project are all public health concerns both in Ghana and West-Africa and in other parts of the world. Our joint projects have strengthened and promoted global information networks on infectious diseases and the health and welfare of the residents of Ghana and Japan.
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Omokhodion, Akuewanbhor. "Globalization and an African city: Lagos." Ekistics and The New Habitat 73, no. 436-441 (December 1, 2006): 214–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200673436-441119.
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The author, Chairman of Omokhodion Associates Ltd and Omokhodion Group, has received his academic degrees in architecture and city planning from the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana; the Athens Center of Ekistics, Athens, Greece; Yale University, New Haven, CO, USA ; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; and the University of Lagos, Nigeria. In his long career, he has held key posts as Technical Officer in Training and as architect in the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing; as Physical Planning Assistant to Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, and has been director and chief designer of major architectural, landscape, urban design and urban planning projects in Nigeria at a broad range of scales. He has been a member of the Landuse and Allocation Committee, Bendel State; the Presidential Committee on the Accelerated Development of Abuja; the UNESCO Commission for Nigeria; Director of the Western Textile Mills Ltd; and is currently a member on the Panel on the Reorganization of NNPC. Dr Omokhodion is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.
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Shubin, Vladimir. "African studies in Russia (with special reference to the Institute of African Studies, Moscow)." African Research & Documentation 86 (2001): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019403.
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The history of African Studies in Russia goes back to the 19th century. Traditionally two fields were most developed - Egyptology and Ethiopian Studies. Several Russian explorers travelled to East Africa and the Horn of Africa at the end of that century. After the 1917 revolution, more attention was paid to the anti-colonial struggle of the African peoples and the workers’ movement.The first centres of African Studies were created in the early 1930s in Moscow as an African cabinet in the short-lived Scientific Research Association for the Study of National and Colonial Problems and die African Section of the so-called Communist University of the Toiling Peoples of the East. In 1945 the Department of African Languages was founded at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, followed by the African Section in the Institute of Ethnography and the African Department in the Institute for Oriental Studies.
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Shubin, Vladimir. "African studies in Russia (with special reference to the Institute of African Studies, Moscow)." African Research & Documentation 86 (2001): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019403.
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The history of African Studies in Russia goes back to the 19th century. Traditionally two fields were most developed - Egyptology and Ethiopian Studies. Several Russian explorers travelled to East Africa and the Horn of Africa at the end of that century. After the 1917 revolution, more attention was paid to the anti-colonial struggle of the African peoples and the workers’ movement.The first centres of African Studies were created in the early 1930s in Moscow as an African cabinet in the short-lived Scientific Research Association for the Study of National and Colonial Problems and die African Section of the so-called Communist University of the Toiling Peoples of the East. In 1945 the Department of African Languages was founded at the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, followed by the African Section in the Institute of Ethnography and the African Department in the Institute for Oriental Studies.
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Ayiku, Andrews, E. Stephen Grant, and Prince Kofi Mensah. "Stimulating University Student Entrepreneurship: Evidence from an African Developing Country." Journal of Comparative International Management 25, no. 2 (December 28, 2022): 221–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.55482/jcim.2022.33294.
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Entrepreneurship education at the tertiary level is gaining ground within developing economies like Ghana. But empirical studies that assess the role of universities in stimulating and consolidating entrepreneurship traits are limited in emerging economies. This study is a quantitative study that adopts the structural equation model approach to examine the effect of four constructs (Attitude, Subjective Norm, Perceived Behavioral Control, and the Role of University) on the Entrepreneurship Intention of university students in Ghana. Results indicate a significant positive relationship between university entrepreneurial role and student entrepreneurial intention. Also, both attitude and subjective norm had a significant positive association with student entrepreneurial intention. The relationship between perceived behavioral control and student entrepreneurial intention was a significant negative relationship. These results provide an empirical basis for leveraging universities to stimulate students’ entrepreneurial intention within developing economies such as Ghana.
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Akolgo, J. O. "Re-fashioning African Studies in an Information Technology Driven World for Africa's Transformation." Contemporary Journal of African Studies 6, no. 1 (May 31, 2019): 114–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v6i1.7.
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The African Studies programme, launched in the University of Ghana by Ghana's first president, was for “students to know and understand their roots, inherited past traditions, norms and lore (and to) re-define the African personality” and the “inculcation of time honoured African values of truthfulness, humanness, rectitude and honour …and ultimately ensure a more just and orderly African society” Sackey (2014:225). These and other principles constitute some of the cardinal goals of the programme in both public and private universities in Ghana. Considering tertiary education as both a public and private enterprise, this paper seeks to enrich the discourse on African Studies by taking a retrospection of the subject and investigated university students' perceptions of the discipline among public and privately funded spheres. Adopting a qualitative approach, the paper interviewed students on the relevance of the discipline in a contemporary information technology driven world. The outcome of such interrogation was that African Studies is even more relevant in the era of globalization than it might have been in immediate post independent Africa. It concludes by unraveling how the discipline can be re-fashioned for Africa's transformation.
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Abba, Immaculata, Tubi Otitooluwa, Jonathan Kplorla Agbeh, Christine Matua, Timothy Latim, Justicia Kiconco, Bola Oguntade, and Emmanuella Codjoe. "What is Shared about African Modernism? What is African about Modern Heritage?" Docomomo Journal, no. 69 (December 15, 2023): 86–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.69.10.
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The Shared Heritage Africa (SHA) project focused on the rediscovery of modern university campuses and seminal buildings in West and East Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s. The project involved nine research fellows from Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda, who conducted heritage research, local writing and photography workshops, exhibitions, and published content to document Africa’s built cultural heritage, eight of them are presented here. This initiative aimed to promote sustainable urban and social development, drawing on African and international efforts and targeting students and young professionals to foster social, cultural and political awareness.
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Dolphyne, Florence Abena. "African Perspectives on Programs for North American Students in Africa: The Experience of the University of Ghana–Legon." African Issues 28, no. 1-2 (2000): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500006818.
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The University of Ghana is the oldest of the five universities in Ghana. The others are Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the University of Cape Coast, the University College of Education in Winneba, and the University of Development Studies in Tamale. The last two are only three years old and do not as yet have student exchange programs with North American universities. Kwame Nkrumah University and the University of Cape Coast do have student exchange programs with a few North American universities.
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Brann, Conrad Max Benedict. "African Studies, Africanistics or Africanology: The German Approach." African Research & Documentation 39 (1985): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00008232.
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The ambivalence of the term Afrikanistik is shown by its use in two works, one edited by Professor Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Recent German research on Africa: language and culture, the other by Professors Hermann Jungraithmayr (now University of Frankfurt) and J.G. Moehlig (University of Cologne) entitled Lexikon der Afrikanistik; afrikanische Sprachen und ihre Erforschung. Whilst the former uses the term Afrikanistik to include languages and culture, as defined by Diedrich Westermann in the original title of the International Institute for African Languages & Cultures, the latter takes a more narrow interpretation of the discipline, as representing African linguistics stricto sensu.
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Larby, P. M. "The Institute of Commonwealth Studies." African Research & Documentation 55 (1991): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x0001579x.
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The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London) exists to promote advanced study of the Comomonwealth of Nations within a research environment. Its activities include the promotion of inter-disciplinary and inter-regional research; courses and supervision for higher degrees; and an imaginative programme of seminars, conferences and publications. Within the Institute's walls are currently housed the British Documents of End of Empire Project and the activities of Dr. Anne Thurston, whose initiatives in the field of archival materials in Commonwealth countries and associated backup programmes of staff training and conservation workshops, have stimulated an awareness of the value of archives in many African countries. The Association of Commonwealth Archives and Record Management has its Secretariat at the Institute.
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Borteye, Edward Mensah, and Martin De Porres Maaseg. "User studies in archives: the case of the Manhyia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, Kumasi, Ghana." Archival Science 13, no. 1 (July 26, 2012): 45–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-012-9185-2.
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Nechaeva, L. "The Role of Africa in Global Politics. “The Year of Africa” in Russia." World Economy and International Relations 67, no. 8 (2023): 129–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2023-67-8-129-134.
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Editorial office publishes the summary of a joint seminar held by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) and the World Economy and International Relations journal. The event was dedicated to the role of Africa in global politics, prospects and problems of its cooperation with Russia and other countries. The seminar on “The Role of Africa in Global Politics “the Year of Africa” in Russia” took place on March 28, 2023. The main part of the discussion included contributions by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Advisor; Irina Abramova, Head, RAS Institute of Africa, RAS Presidium Member, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member; Andrey Maslov, Head, Center for African Studies at Higher School of Economics (HSE); Ivan Loshkarev, Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies (IIS), Associate Professor, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University; Vasiliy Kashin, Head, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE, RIAC Member. The discussion also included remarks by Yulia Melnikova, RIAC Program Manager; Lora Chkoniya, Junior Research Fellow, Center for Middle East and African Studies, IIS, MGIMO University; Maya Nikolskaya, Junior Research Fellow, Center for Middle East and African Studies, IIS, MGIMO University; Sergey Karamaev, Junior Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the South and East, IMEMO, Ibragim Ibragimov, Research Fellow, Regional Relations Study Group, IMEMO, and Vsevolod Sviridov, Expert, Center for African Studies, HSE.
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Okyere Asante, Michael K. "Classics and the politics of Africanization in Ghana." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 65, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac004.
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Abstract During the early years following Ghana’s political independence from British rule, calls were made for university education to have ‘an African character’. As a field steeped in Eurocentric narratives, how did the Classics survive, and how did classicists respond to the politics of Africanization? This paper draws on the political contexts under which secondary and tertiary education in Ghana underwent reforms to discuss the threats and challenges these reforms posed to the sustenance of the field of Classics, and the decolonization strategies classicists adopted during the calls for Africanization in university education. The paper suggests that the idea of ‘world civilization’ which does not consider one civilization as superior over another cemented decolonization efforts in the early post-independent era, and helped classicists meet the conditions of ‘relevance’ in the African context through comparative studies. Current attempts at decolonizing Classics in Africa would benefit from these strategies if applied to both research and curriculum development.
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Volkov, Sergey. "Africa’s Role and Place in the Forming Multipolar World." Asia and Africa Today, no. 7 (2023): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s032150750026541-7.
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In March, Center for Russian-African Relations and Foreign Policy of African Countries of the Institute for African Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) held a conference “Africa – the Rising Center of an Emerging Multipolar World”. The conference took place during a period of sharp aggravation of the international situation, which required for Russia to revise the directions of its foreign policy with the focus on some countries, in particular, the countries of Africa. The event held in the format of a videoconference was attended by scientists of the IAfr RAS, MGIMO University, RISI, Institute of Economics (Academy of Sciences of Belarus), Research Economic Institute of the Ministry of Economy (Republic of Belarus), teachers and students of Patrice Lumumba RUDN University, Moscow State University, TISBI University of Management (Kazan, Russia), Samara State University of Economics. The role and place of African countries in the system of international relations and in strategies of the main centers of power, the African policy of the world’s leading players, as well as the state and prospects of Russian- and Belarusian-African cooperation in the context of a sharp aggravation of the international situation and tough economic sanctions imposed by the West on Russia and Belarus were discussed. The speeches contained recommendations on strengthening both countries mutually beneficial partnership with African states, which may be used by government organizations and business community.
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Skinner, Kate. "Agency and Analogy in African History: the Contribution of Extra-Mural Studies in Ghana." History in Africa 34 (2007): 273–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2007.0020.
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As the pioneering generation of postwar British academics retired, some produced autobiographical texts which revealed the personal circumstances and intellectual influences that brought them to the study of Africa. Edited volumes have also provided broader reflections on the academic disciplines, methodologies, and institutions through which these scholars engaged with the continent. In one such text, Christopher Clapham and Richard Hodder-Williams noted the special relationship between extramural studies (also known as university adult education) and the academic study of Africa's mass nationalist movements:The impetus for this study came to a remarkable degree from a tiny group of men and women who pioneered university extra-mural studies in the Gold Coast immediately after the [Second World War], and to a significant extent established the parameters for subsequent study of the subject [African politics]. Gathered together under the aegis of Thomas Hodgkin […], they were led by David Kimble […], and included among the tutors Dennis Austin, Lalage Bown and Bill Tordoff, all of whom were to play a major role in African studies in the United Kingdom over the next forty years.
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Gribanova, Valentina V., and Nadezhda E. Khokholkova. "The Current Issues in the Research of Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Decolonization." Asia and Africa today, no. 2 (December 15, 2024): 64–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s032150750030075-4.
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In October, 2023, the Institute for African Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) hosted the All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Decolonization: Research Experience and Modern Discourse”. About 50 researchers from Russia, Ghana, Tanzania and Cameroon participated in a scientific event organized by the Center for History and Cultural Anthropology and the Center for Southern Africa Studies of the Institute for African Studies. At the conference, attendees reflected on the complex histories of colonialism, neocolonialism, and decolonization. They also scrutinized current methods of neocolonial manipulation and delved into the discourse surrounding the fight against neocolonial ideas and actions. During the forum, the participants engaged in conversations surrounding the topics of political and legal neocolonialism, digital imperialism, anti-colonial movements, historical memory, historiography, and the cultural, spiritual, and mental liberation from colonial dependence. The diverse range of topics and unique research methods sparked dynamic and beneficial conversations that broadened participants’ knowledge of colonial discourses and counter-discourses, while also revealing potential avenues for future research. A key result of the conference ought to be the release of a book containing research papers.
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Martin Thompson Kwadzo Ntem, Samuel Danso, and Wise Kwame Osei. "Social media usage and civic engagement among communication students." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 19, no. 1 (July 30, 2023): 1382–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.1.1494.
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This study through a quantitative survey and a purposive sampling approach examined the use of social media for civic engagement among 200 students at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, National Film and Television Institute and the African University College of Communications. Data for the study were gathered from primary and secondary sources. The study revealed that there is a strong positive correlation between social media usage among communication students and civic participation. The study revealed that majority of students are active users of social media with Facebook being the most preferred choice. This research contributes to the active use of social media in civic engagement and highlights the essence of political actors capitalising on the numerous advantages provided by social media in reaching out to a larger group of citizens for political engagement.
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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., and Bongani Ngqulunga. "Introduction: From the idea of Africa to the African idea of Africa." Thinker 93, no. 4 (November 25, 2022): 6–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/the_thinker.v93i4.2201.
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This special issue is part of the collaborative research project initiated by the Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa, based at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), based at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. The collaborative project is entitled “The Changing African Idea of Africa and the Future of African Studies.” At the University of Bayreuth, the research project is also part of The African Multiple Cluster of Excellencesupported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant number EX 20521-390713894). The overarching agenda of The African Multiple Cluster of Excellence is that of reconfiguring African Studies, and at the centre of this is the imperative of doing AfricanStudies with Africans while also privileging African voices and intellectual/academic productions.
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Cox, Justin, and Stephanie Kitchen. "African Books Collective: African Published Books in the North." African Research & Documentation 136 (2019): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00022056.
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This is a presentation about the African Books Collective that for some 30 years has distributed African published academic, literary and children's books around the world. The aim of the paper is to provide some insights into how books published in Africa are making their way to libraries with collections on Africa, and to discuss current and future trends; it being understood that ‘decolonising library collections’, the theme of this conference, would by rights involve acquiring and maintaining materials from outside the global North.Upon its creation in 1990, ABC represented a large number of university presses on the continent and independent publishers, some of which are large firms still trading today. Today few university presses are trading or publishing new books. This work was largely picked-up by private independent publishers and research institutes such as CODESRIA, OSSREA, the Institute of Southern African Studies and others.
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Musambachime, M. C. "The University of Zambia's Institute for African Studies and Social Science Research in Central Africa, 1938-1988." History in Africa 20 (1993): 237–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171973.
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G. K. Gwassa states that research institutes in Africa constitute one critical factor of development in that they have to undertake the twin problems of research which involve the search for and the discovery of the process of social development. They also undertake purposeful functional research by (especially) studying and analyzing internal economic and social conditions in order to determine the characteristics, variables, and criteria for rational economic and political actions within a given country. These have become the functions of many social science research institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. The pioneer in all this is the University of Zambia's Institute for African Studies, the oldest social science-oriented research center in black Africa.The Institute was founded in 1938 as the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute for Social Research (RLISR). In its fifty years of existence the Institute has made contributions which have earned it an international reputation for its research work. The aim of this paper is to assess the contribution of the Institute to social science research in its first fifty years of existence. In undertaking this task, I propose to discuss the topic under three broad areas: foundation, aims, and objectives; publication and research; and problems encountered and their solution.
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Nguyen, T. "Terrorism as an obstacle to Africa’s sustainable development." Pathways to Peace and Security, no. 2 (2022): 280–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/2307-1494-2022-2-280-281.
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Haron, Muhammed. "The Arabic Script in Africa." American Journal of Islam and Society 27, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 155–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v27i2.1344.
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The Arabic script’s flexible and adaptive nature has made it a significantcontributor to Africa’s rich and vibrant socio-linguistic landscape. This hasbeen noted by major scholars in the field, among them John Hunwick(director-general, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa,Northwestern University, USA) and Helmi Sharawi (Centre for Arabo-African Studies, Egypt). Meikal Mumin, a young German-Somali scholarwho completed his M.A. at the University of Cologne’s Institute for AfricanStudies on the use of the Arabic script in Africa, solicited funds from theFritz Thyssen Stiftung, as well as the necessary moral support from theabove-mentioned institute, to host a workshop on this topic. Entitled “ArabicScript in Africa,” it was held at the University of Koln’s Institute for AfricanStudies during 6-7 April 2010. Mumin regarded this event as the first of itskind on German soil to dealt with the “linguistic aspects of the usage and diffusionof the Arabic script in Africa for the writing of African languages, aphenomenon also known as Ajami.” The assembled scholars investigated,among other concerns, linguistic, sociolinguistic, and historical processes aswell as applied language policy for certain African languages ...
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Dimand, Robert W., and Kojo Saffu. "POLLY HILL: CROSSING AND CONTESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AFRICAN STUDIES, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 43, no. 2 (June 2021): 279–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837220000176.
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Polly Hill spent her long, productive, and at times controversial career crossing and contesting disciplinary boundaries. She graduated in economics at Cambridge, but her doctorate was in social anthropology—with economist Joan Robinson as dissertation supervisor. Her thirteen years at the University of Ghana were initially in economics, then in African studies, and her readership at Cambridge was in Commonwealth studies. As a woman in several male-dominated academic disciplines without a secure base in any (and with distinctive, unorthodox opinions in each), she never obtained a tenure-track appointment despite ten books and fifty scholarly articles. Her books drew attention to the underrecognized agency of indigenous entrepreneurs while her Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for the Prosecution (1986) critiqued a discipline, disciplinary boundaries, and outside experts, both mainstream and radical.
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Ibrahim, Zakyi. "The Study of Islam in African Universities." American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): i—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v31i3.1056.
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Although not as comprehensive as the articles featured in this special issue,this editorial presents my comments and the results of my survey conductedamong professors and lecturers who teach Islamic studies in Ghanaian universities.For a comparative perspective, similar questions were also sent tocolleagues in Nigeria. I undertook this preliminary research to prepare myselffor a roundtable discussion that was held at the annual African StudiesAssociation meeting (Philadelphia, November 29-December 1, 2012) on“The Study of Islam in African Universities: Is it a Priority?” Based on my ownon-the-ground knowledge and what I gathered from my survey’s respondents,this topic does not seem to be a priority for Ghana’s university administrators(viz., the presidents, vice chancellors, and deans all the waydown to the department heads and their administrative support), students,parents, or policymakers.In general terms, Ghana’s university administrators see no value in supportingthis stream of study because it does not “produce” graduates who canmake constructive contributions to the national agenda of industrial development.The study of religion (or religious studies) in general suffers from thisbias internationally, and religion itself is becoming less popular among youngpeople. Other indications of this low priority are the courses offered in religiousstudies departments and the lack of “suitable” experts. After my presentation,one audience member who had earned a PhD in Islamic studies from a MiddleEastern university, pointed out that he could not find a teaching job in a Ghanaianuniversity. He seemed to believe that his situation had a lot to do with discriminationand bias; however, I was not so sure. He is now an adjunctinstructor in Islamic studies at a local junior college in the Philadelphia area.Of Ghana’s 8 public and 48 private universities,1 only 5 or six 6 have departmentsthat include Islam in their courses listings.2 Apart from the newlyestablished Islamic University College, which is not included here because itis an Islamic university, none of the leading universities offer a major or aminor in Islamic studies. The University of Ghana (Accra) does come close, ...
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Green, M. Christian. "LAW, RELIGION, AND SAME-SEX RELATIONS IN AFRICA." Journal of Law and Religion 36, no. 1 (April 2021): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2021.4.
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Some years back, around 2013, I was asked to write an article on the uses of the Bible in African law. Researching references to the Bible and biblical law across the African continent, I soon learned that, besides support for arguments by a few states in favor of declaring themselves “Christian nations,” the main use was in emerging debates over homosexuality and same-sex relationships—almost exclusively to condemn those relationships. In January 2013, the newly formed African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS) held its first international conference at the University of Ghana Legon. There, African sexuality debates emerged forcefully in consideration of a paper by Sylvia Tamale, then dean of the Makarere University School of Law in Uganda, who argued pointedly, “[P]olitical Christianity and Islam, especially, have constructed a discourse that suggests that sexuality is the key moral issue on the continent today, diverting attention from the real critical moral issues for the majority of Africans . . . . Employing religion, culture and the law to flag sexuality asthebiggest moral issue of our times and dislocating therealissue is a political act and must be recognised as such.”
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Murphy, Gwen, Valerie McCormack, Diana Menya, Blandina Mmbaga, Katherine Van Loon, Elia Mmbaga, Satish Gopal, et al. "Development of an African Esophageal Cancer Consortium." Journal of Global Oncology 3, no. 2_suppl (April 2017): 31s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.2017.009712.
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Abstract 44 Background: Esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. It kills 400,000 people every year, most of whom live in two distinct geographic bands across central Asia and along the eastern Africa corridor that extends from Ethiopia to South Africa. In these high-risk areas, nearly all cases are esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Our group and others have performed many etiologic, genetic, and early detection and treatment studies of ESCC in central Asia, but this disease remains essentially unstudied in eastern Africa. Over the past few years, several groups have begun quality studies of ESCC in Africa, including case-control studies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (University of California, San Francisco, and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences); Eldoret, Kenya (International Agency for Research on Cancer and Moi University); Moshi, Tanzania (International Agency for Research on Cancer and Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute); Bomet, Kenya (National Cancer Institute and Tenwek Hospital); and Lilongwe, Malawi (National Cancer Institute and the UNC-Malawi Project). In November 2015, these groups met and decided to create the African Esophageal Cancer Consortium. The goals of the consortium are to raise awareness of the importance of ESCC in Africa, to coordinate etiologic and molecular studies of ESCC in high-risk populations, and to facilitate provision of therapeutic training and equipment aimed to improve survival and quality of life. Methods: The first coordinated activity was to standardize questionnaires so that data can later be compared and combined. The consortium has embraced mobile health technologies through development of an mHealth app for real-time data capture on a phone or tablet and to collect harmonized data from the outset, increase efficiency, eliminate transcription mistakes, and allow real-time quality control and supervision of field activities from any location. Results: The consortium held its second annual meeting in September 2016. At this meeting, the five member sites affirmed their commitment to the consortium and the first study coordinator was named. Conclusion: Case-control studies in Moshi, Bomet, and Lilongwe are using the mobile app. A case-control study in Dar es Salaam is complete, with results pending. Coordinated genome-wide association and genomic studies are planned, with collection of biospecimens from multiple sites. The consortium is actively working with partners in China to provide affordable stents in Africa for palliative ESCC treatment as well as to secure training to safely and effectively place stents. Annual meetings will continue to follow-up on progress and develop new initiatives. AUTHORS' DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST No COIs from the authors.
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Abokyi, Samuel Nana, Tigwe Salifu Jebuni, and Edward Salifu Mahama. "Anthropological Study of Indigenous Weapon Production Among the Anufor of Northern Ghana." European Journal of Development Studies 4, no. 3 (May 7, 2024): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejdevelop.2024.4.3.347.
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Weapon production and warfare are unavoidably linked, as the former is needed to prosecute the latter. It was essential for the protection of the ego and image of a group, and this urge was strong enough to plunge states into endless warfare. During pre-colonial times, West African states like the Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi, and allies, including the Anufor, were preoccupied with wars of expansion and consolidation of acquired territories. In most cases, these wars involved the seizure of territories, as the ownership of territories showed the extent of one’s power and influence. Several traditional armies were thus engaged in warfare to control territories and the resources therein, including trade routes and markets. The strength of an army partly depended largely on the efficacy and level of sophistication of their weapons. The Anufor, who were very efficient in the war enterprise as mercenaries, were equally efficient in producing various weapons, including physical handheld weapons, plant venom, and spirituality. This paper uses oral histories and traditions among the Anufor and their allies in Ghana and Togo, as well as archival sources. Critical analysis of relics of war accouterments and Arabic manuscripts at the Institute of African Studies, Legon, was enriching.
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Kwabi, Prince Charles. "Tropical Modern Architect." Docomomo Journal, no. 69 (December 15, 2023): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.69.03.
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Professor John Owusu Addo is a Ghanaian tropical modern architect and a pioneer in architectural education and practice in the nation-building of Ghana and other Commonwealth countries. His contributions to the modern architecture discourse seem to be overshadowed by the cohort of architects of both Western and Socialist origin who practiced in Africa during the decolonization era. The Community Center at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus in Kumasi-Ghana was designed by him; it represents a classic example of ‘unknown’ heritage within the narrative. This short essay examines both primary and secondary data, including unpublished interviews, master series events, articles, and papers to contextualize Prof. Owusu Addo as an exemplary protagonist to be explored for the benefit of tropical modern architects, especially in African settings.
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McIlwaine, J. H. "Writings on African Archives (Part 4)." African Research & Documentation 66 (1994): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00016642.
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For a general introduction to this working bibliography and an account of criteria for inclusion see Part 1 in ARD 62. This section contains a number of items relating to the various West African workshops organized by the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers (ACARM), of which copies are available in the library of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London where the Association has its Secretariat. Although in general in this series of bibliographies entries have not been made for “in-house” finding aids produced by archives, an exception is made here for the extensive series produced by the National Archives of Nigeria. This is because these cyclostyled lists were fairly widely circulated, and certainly many of those produced in the 1960s are available in libraries outside the country (in the U.K. for example in the Institutes of Commonwealth Studies and Historical Research and SOAS at the University of London).
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Abbink, J. "African studies in the Netherlands: A brief survey." African Research & Documentation 87 (2001): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00012346.
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In the Netherlands there is an active community of Africanist scholars, numbering about 200 to 250. They work mainly in universities and other research institutes, but also in increasing numbers for government ministries (notably of Foreign Affairs and Development Co-operation), NGOs, and other aid organisations. Fields in which Africanists are strong are history, anthropology and geography, and to a lesser extent development sociology, medical science, law, comparative politics and religious studies. The following survey is necessarily a selective one.African Studies in the Netherlands can pride itself on a long history only if we include the many travellers, traders and missionaries active in African regions before the twentieth century. The scholarly study of the continent seriously started a few decades later than in other European countries: after the Second World War, when an Africa Institute was founded (in 1946, see below) and the first special professorial chair in African ethnology was instituted at Leiden University.
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Ansong, Eric, Richard Boateng, Sheena L. Boateng, and Augustus B. Anderson. "The nature of E-learning adoption by stakeholders of a university in Africa." E-Learning and Digital Media 14, no. 4 (July 2017): 226–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2042753017731235.
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Studies looking at the nature of technology adoption from a multi-dimensional perspective have remained below expectation especially in African countries. This study, therefore, sought to explore the nature of e-learning adoption in the University of Ghana using a multi-stakeholder approach. A quantitative survey approach was adopted for this study. The three major categories of stakeholders (students, instructors and e-learning administrators) responded to a questionnaire on the nature of their engagement with the Sakai Learning Management System of the University of Ghana. The data were analysed using the descriptive statistics. The analysis revealed that e-learning was yet to receive a university-wide adoption and again it was discovered that, the prevalent activity on the e-learning platform was “viewing marks and grades.” And some of the activities were less popular with the users of the e-learning system. For instance, “Detecting and fishing out cheating and plagiarism in students’ or researchers’ work” was the least popular activity on the e-learning platform. The originality of the study lies in the multi-faceted (student, lecturers/instructors and e-learning administrators) approach to the study of e-learning adoption in an African country. The study concludes with a discussion of implications and future research directions.
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Berry, Lemuel. "National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates 2006 National Conference." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 2 (April 1, 2006): 145–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i2.1639.
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The National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates[National Association of African American Studies, National Associationof Hispanic and Latino Studies, National Association of Native AmericanStudies and Affiliates, International Association of Asian Studies] held itsannual conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 13-18 February 2006.The conference served as host to over 580 college and university professors,as well as members of professional organizations, from across theUnited States and several foreign countries. In addition to the speakerswho addressed issues related to the African-American, Hispanic/Latino,Asian and Native American experience, there were more than 1,200 otherattendees.A sampling of institutions represented included the University ofTennessee, six institutions from the California State system, HamptonUniversity, Yale University, Quinnipiac University, Howard University,George Mason University, Wesleyan University, University of Kansas, andPurdue University. Additional participants and attendees came from theUnited Arab Emirates University, the Sequoyah Research Center, the Centerfor the Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice, Cubanet News,Stewart Associates, Erudite RPC Firm, the Economic Policy Institute, andImani Publications.The 2006 conference also involved the Islamic and Middle EasternStudies Association (IMESA). The participation from IMESA marks the firsttime this organization has held its meeting in conjunction with another organization.There were several outstanding papers presented by IMESA participants.Dr. Pisamai Vogulaar (The Center of Christian-Muslim Engagementfor Peace and Justice) presented a paper entitled “Living as MuslimMinorities: ACase Study of Thai Sunni Muslims in Bangkok and Arab SunniMuslims in Chicago.” The focus of this paper was of interest to many of theconference attendees. Other outstanding presentations included “FethullahGullen and Islam in the Contemporary World” by Dr. Yetkin Yildirin (TheInstitute of Interfaith Dialog), “That Which May Not Be Spoken: HomoeroticDesire in the Writings of Ismat Chugtai and Alifa Rifaat” by Dr. Indrani Mitra(St. Mary’s University), and “Seek What Brings Benefit: A Discussion ofContemporary Issues Involving Maslaha and a Few Theological Premises inIts Favor” by Mary C. Moorman (Yale University) ...