ABSTRACT A cursory look at the Trade Disputes Act of 1976 shows that the Act did not specifically remove the right of workers to strike but in practical terms.
ABSTRACT This thesis examines conflicts over natural resources between pastoralists and indigenous farming communities in Agogo, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In recent years, Agogo has gained much coverage in the media over these conflicts. This study attempts to unravel the underlying causes of these conflicts. It argues that the conflicts are shaped by three different interests: farmers, herders and chiefs. The chiefs are interested in gaining revenues from land and natural resource...
ABSTRACT This project is a translation of a document titled Guía país Ghana (Guidebook to Ghana) from Spanish into English. Authored by the Commercial and Economic Office of Spain in Lagos, this source text is a broad-spectrum document presenting some vital statistics on Ghana in the area of industry and international relations among other topics. The choice of the document for our translation project is motivated by our desire to make known to our English audience the challenges that Ghan...
ABSTRACT This work is an analytic exposition of yoruba poetry written in the period 1848-1948.
ABSTRACT The current overriding thought in HIV/AIDS communication in developing countries foreground the need for a shift from the cognitive model which emphasizes the decision,
ABSTRACT Catholic Church historians and the Papacy had claimed to have vehemently condemned slave trade at every instance. Catholic historians and scholars like Luigi Conti and Panzer have done their best to grant an intellectual absolution to the seat of the Pope by carefully whitewashing the ugly part of their history and eulogizing the Catholic Church for being at the forefront of the abolitionist movement. I contend that a thorough analysis of Papal bull, treaties and the classic works o...
ABSTRACT Two field experiments were conducted at the Multipurpose Crop Nursery of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong-Ashanti campus during the minor and major rainy seasons from September, 2011 to January, 2012 and April to August, 2012 respectively to verify the yield and storability of sweetpotato roots as influenced by chicken manure and inorganic fertilzer in the forest transitional agro-ecological zone of Ghana.. In both cropping seasons sweetpotato root tubers were stored for...
ABSTRACT The low performance of students in government schools in the area of English Language during the Basic Education Certificate Examination has been a source of worry to all educational stakeholders. The study therefore was aimed at investigating the low performance of students’ English in the Basic Education Certificate Examination in the Sunyani municipality. The study examined the factors that impede the acquisition of English as a second language leading to dismal performance in ...
ABSTRACT The second letter of Peter contains a statement which not only has greatly influenced the Christian eschatological and apocalyptic visions, but also is central of the current ecological debate: “…but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men” (3:7). Contemporary scholarship has offered two main interpretations of the verse: ‘destructionist interpretation’...
ABSTRACT This study examined the perceptions of stakeholders on contents of Facebook pages of organisations in the food and beverage sector (Kasapreko Company Limited and Fan Milk Limited, Ghana). The followers’ underlying motivations for engaging with the organisations on Facebook, their expectations and perceptions about page contents and management were investigated. The study employed a descriptive survey design, and a sample size of 200 respondents were selected using a systematic sam...
ABSTRACT Two main, often conflicting, approaches or theories have been provided to understand or explain human-geography relationships, namely, geographic determinism and geographic possibilism. Scholars who hold geographic deterministic views argue that geographic conditions, to a larger extent, determine human culture and development. On the other hand, the possibilists argue that humans have the capacity to arise above the dictates of the geographical environment to modify and adapt to ge...
ABSTRACT The study examines knowledge construction on female genital cutting (FGC) and notions of womanhood and the resultant discourses by the Maasai community in Kajiado, Kenya. There has been a global upsurge in anti-FGC interventions by the international community, feminist movements, national governments, and NGOs in the last three decades which have described FGC as a barbaric practice that violates the health and human rights of docile and helpless women and girls. Kajiado has been...
ABSTRACT Since Simon De Beauvoir’s Second Sex (1949), various debates have taken place concerning feminism and its objectives. The definition of feminism and what it means to a group of people or region has also been very controversial. In Africa, feminism has been received with mixed feelings leading to the proposal of alternative terms and definitions in a bid to clearly define the struggle of African women. The search for diversity in feminism that is responsive to the different needs an...
ABSTRACT Growth is an important value driver for life insurance firms. Due to the risk pooling nature of their business it is necessary for their business operations to generate the volume of business necessary to ensure efficient pooling of risks. This study investigated the factors influencing the growth of life insurance business in Ghana. The study is based on panel data of life insurers‘ gross written premium, total assets, age of the business, total commissions earned by their markete...
ABSTRACT Every translation comes with its peculiar challenges as such no translation is without problems. Regardless of how gifted, skilled and experienced a translator may be he /she might still be faced with translation challenges. The purpose of this study is to examine some of the problems translators face in the course of their work. Specifically, the work examines the phenomenon of collocations and their place in translation. A text translated from French into English serves as corpus...