ABSTRACT Actors in the international system have and continue to use conventional diplomacy in interstate relations but have not always been successful in achieving their objectives. Recent times have seen sports utilized by actors as a soft power tool in diplomatic relations between states. Though it is often argued that sports and politics should not mix, the popularity and the socioeconomic nature of sports have gained the attention of states and international organizations in the internat...
ABSTRACT Infant mortality rates in less developed countries are still high. Over the years in Ghana, successive governments have implemented policies and programs that have resulted in a decline in the infant mortality rate, especially in the rural areas. This study examined the factors associated with infant death among rural residents of Ghana, using data from the last four rounds (1998, 2003, 2008 and 2014) of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). A comparative method was used, p...
ABSTRACT Buruli ulcer remains one of the most devastating but at the same time neglected diseases humans have encountered in the recent centuries since it was discovered. The disease threatens the whole country with a national prevalence rate of 20.7 per 100,000. The inadequate appreciation of the socio-cultural context of the disease, which is directly linked to the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of the people as far as the disease is concerned, is a matter that calls for attention. Th...
ABSTRACT Empowering women to contribute their quota towards community and national development has become a contemporary issue embraced worldwide. Despite the fact that women’s political participation right has been enshrined in the international law, little is known about the struggles and experience women in Africa face in their quest to participate in the development of the community and the country at large. The study sought to examine socio-cultural factors affecting the participation...
ABSTRACT This work is a corpus-based study of newspaper editorial language. It compares the usage of sentence types and clause patterns in newspaper editorials from native and nonnative English contexts. Using register theory (RT), and other theories which relate language to contexts of use and to communicative function, this work investigates the distribution of the two major grammatical structures across newspaper editorials from the two sociocultural contexts. The aim is to validate the ce...
ABSTRACT The writing of the biographies of people who have gone before us is an important duty. The writing of biographies helps the present generation to have an experience of the past. It also helps people to learn good behaviors and avoid bad ones. The underlying concept of the study was the trait leadership approach and the transformational leadership approach. The study was conducted using qualitative method of collecting data. Interviews were conducted with the family, relatives, elders...
ABSTRACT The study investigated use of electronic resources by undergraduate students of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) to find out if students utilize electronic resources. It specifically targeted the level 300 students of GIMPA. Awareness, usage, training, access, usefulness and importance and problems of use were explored. A survey method was employed and structured questionnaire were utilized to solicit data for the study. The findings revealed that, ...
ABSTRACT Africa like the rest of the world is ageing. The number of elderly people on the continent is rapidly increasing. This increase in the number of older people who require care is occurring at the same time when the resources of Africa is getting depleted and the traditional social welfare system that is the extended family has begun to decline. This has resulted in the shift of care responsibility away from the extended family to the nuclear family where adult children have to care fo...
ABSTRACT Quality education is the bedrock of national development and progress. In the course of the history of education in Ghana, there arose the need to improve accessibility. Hence, a series of interventions such as the Education For All (EFA), the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE), the Fast Track Initiative (FTI), and the abolition of school fees and levies which led to the introduction of the Capitation Grant scheme (CGS), were introduced. These initiatives triggered a s...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the effectiveness of rice farmer’s strategies in building climate resilience for sustainable adaptation in the Kasena-Nankana East Municipality in the Upper East Region of Ghana. The study adopted the mixed method approach which uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. Both questionnaires and interview guide were used in the collection of primary and secondary data with a sample size of 96 rice farmers and 8 key informants. The study revealed that; rice fa...
Abstract Research on reading has indicated that children who fail to achieve reading competence in their early grades experience reading comprehension difficulties later in the upper levels of education. Owing to such reasons, many senior high school (SHS) students in Ghana are not able to cope with high learning that demands reading, and they lack comprehension strategies aimed at helping them construct meaning from text. Reading fluency, with its components such as reading sub skills and co...
ABSTRACT Teacher job satisfaction has become an important issue in recent times given the key role of teachers in imparting knowledge and skills. It is for this reason that this study employed qualitative research tools to investigate the causes and effects of teacher job dissatisfaction on teacher performance in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. There were a total of 209 respondents, including teachers, head teachers, district educational administrators and...
ABSTRACT Commercialization of dance has become an integral part of the evolving creative industry in Ghana. Commodification of Ghanaian traditional dance as a “product” significantly needs to be branded and packaged in a manner that makes it a commercially viable venture. Framed within attractive quality and sociological aesthetic theories, this study seeks find out why Ghanaian Dance industry has been unattractive and to explore how Ghanaian traditional dances are branded and packaged by...
ABSTRACT The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) provides affordable health care services for the residents of Ghana, of which Tolon District is not an exception although the system is faced with challenges of untimely securing of drugs and poor attention to patients. The NHIS was introduced in 2005 to replace the “cash and carry’’ system which made the health system very difficult to access in Ghana especially in the Tolon District. The study examined the challenges and prospects ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess project management inefficiencies on organisational performance. There is a higher demand for improved performance of organisations being it profit making or not for profit making organisations. This performance depends largely on effective and efficient implementation of projects in these organisations and this places emphasis on effective project management in business organisations. The study and practice of project management has been ident...