ABSTRACT This paper examined beneficiary responses to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by MTN Ghana Foundation. The purpose of this study was to shed light on beneficiaries’ attitudes toward CSR projects and sustainability of such projects. The study employed qualitative approaches such as in-depth interviews, artefact analysis and observation with beneficiaries and officials of the Foundation. The researcher purposively focused on two of the Foundation’s educat...
THE ABSTRACT Africa had been referred to as the Dark Continent for several reasons prior to the era of expeditions which opened the continent up. European Anthropologists formulated several ideas about the continent and its peoples; most of which were derogatory, describing the African in the primitive stage as uncivilized backward and lacking any sense of decency. Before the advent of Missionary activities Africa was awash with Traditional Religious activities which the Missionaries found un...
ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth century undoubtedly marked a watershed in African history and historiography. One striking feature of the period was the emergence of a new crop of African historians who were poised to challenge the hegemony of Eurocentric scholarship. Kenneth O. Dike, a prominent Nigerian historian blazed the trail with his magnum opus Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. In Ghana, the trailblazer was Prof. Albert Adu Boahen who was a teacher, scholar and an astute po...
ABSTRACT The present research examines the influence of organizational trust and organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) on predicting contextual work performance. The crossectional survey method was used to collect data from a sample of 195 employees at the Electricity Company of Ghana in Accra. Results of the regression analysis revealed that both organizational trust and organizational justice predicted contextual performance. Distributive justice accounted for ...
ABSTRACT Recognized as the founding father of modern African Literature in English, Achebe stands out as perhaps one of the most critiqued authors due to his portrayal of women in his early novels. In an attempt to respond to the disparaging representation of Africa in colonial novels such as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Achebe focused on portraying the power and charisma of the African male; the adverse effect of this being weak submissive women who succumbed to these powerful men. T...
ABSTRACT The contribution of communication in the fight of HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies has become an important phenomenon in the health of adolescents and young people in Ghana. With a sample of 200 students from Labone High School, this study sought to investigate the x sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information seeking behaviour among students. Labone Senior High School is a mixed gender school where there is a proportional representation of students from a varied socio-economic ...
ABSTRACT Globally, food security continues to be a complex phenomenon that people across all fields have to manage. In developing countries of which Ghana is part of, the number of people who are food insecure keeps increasing. Little attention has been given to households in the rural areas of the agro-ecological zones and how their occupation influences food security. This study seeks to examine the relationship between occupation and food security in the agro-ecological zones in rural Ghan...
ABSTRACT GAEC‘s mandate to commercialise its research activities has become very crucial and this cannot be achieved without the media. There is, therefore, the need for thorough investigation into GAEC current media relation practice in order to understand journalists‘ perception and what could be done to improve the relations. In line with this, a research on Journalists‘ perception of GAEC‘s media relation was undertaken. This research was intended to answer questions on how much i...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the moderating role of intragroup trust and team transformational leadership on the relationship between team psychological safety and learning behaviour in teams. Fifty seven work teams comprising four hundred and fifty six respondents in teams of seven to nine members were purposively sampled from five financial institutions in Accra. Ghana. Team members completed questionnaires on Team Psychological Safety (Edmondson. 1999). Intragroup trust (Simons & Peters...
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the mission histories of the Assemblies of God Church and the Church of Pentecost in Ghana. It focuses on the similarities and differences in their approaches to mission and their different theological orientations that have contributed to their different growth. The issue of mission is problematised because these Pentecostal Churches‟ different conceptions have led them to emphasize different aspects of mission. Methodologically, the study employed the histori...
ABSTRACT Health is a crucial economic and social asset, particularly for the working low- and middleincome groups in developing countries. However, effective access to health care seems to be practically impossible without a well-functioning system that adequately protects users of health care services against the associated financial risks, especially, at the time they need them. The implementation and goal of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Deve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine the communication activities of two major charismatic churches in Ghana, the Action Chapel International and the International Central Gospel Church, and extract the advertising activities if any. The study also sought to ascertain why these churches advertise and the advertising channels used. Charismatic churches in Africa and beyond, undertake a plethora of communication activities that appear to suggest advertising practice. The study wil...
ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS and increasing population levels are topical issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Male condoms may be the solution to these two problems. The vulnerability of urban poor communities in Accra to these problems cannot be overlooked. It is essential to find out the level of male condom usage in such urban poor communities. This study primarily sought to compare male condom use among three urban poor communities in Accra. The study also investigated the influence of community of reside...
ABSTRACT Health is important in socio-economic development as well as the well-being of the public globally. The media play a pivotal role in transmitting information and educating the public through message construction and presentation, a role which can be directed in the area of health. Given that television news programs reach millions of audiences and play a substantial role in the provision of information and education; and in the shaping of community concerns, television news coverage ...
ABSTRACT This study assesses the gaps associated with official procedural plan of the Forestry Commission’s Scheme of Service (SoS) and the dynamics of its actual implementation over the years. Additionally, the study also seeks to address the perceived imbalance between different categories of staff with respect to work definition, career progression, salaries and remunerations within the service structure of the FC. A cross-sectoral survey was carried out among Eighty, (80) staff in the f...