ABSTRACT The study examines trends in the proximate determinants of fertility (sexual activity, contraception, and postpartuminfecundability) in Ghana over a decade (from 1998 to 2008) with a view to finding out their contributions to fertility decline and explaining the factors responsible for fertility decline in the country . The study was mainly based on data collected from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys carried out in 1998 2003 and 2008. Four thousand eight hundred and forty th...
ABSTRACT In today’s changing economic, political, demographic, and environmental context, the living arrangements of the rapidly growing older population warrant disproportionate policy attention. Lack of support by the state coupled with economic hardship and decreasing kin or family availability implies that older persons are more and more expected to find their own means of support develop their own strategies and depend on their own resources. This study uses a descriptive approach in i...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at exploring the double burden of nutrition being underweight and overweight in Ghana. There have been changes towards increased consumption of processed foods, fast foods, sugary and oily foods, reduction of physical activity and increase in sedentary lifestyle. The associated negative implications are type II diabetes, hypertension and stroke, reduction in labour force, low productivity and increase in health budget. The purpose of the study is to provide informatio...
ABSTRACT Ghana’s relations with Burkina Faso has been cordial. The two countries are closely linked by blood ties of some ethnic groupings along their common border and more so they share the Volta River Basin which is indispensable in their development drive. The Volta River Basin serves as a major source of energy and transport in Ghana. Ghana-Burkina Faso relations has, however, been threatened since the completion of construction of the Bagre multipurpose dam on the White Volta sub-basi...
ABSTRACT The African has been a creator, performer and a lover of verbal art for centuries. He has created and handed down (orally) to successive generations an organic library of songs, poems, narratives, proverbs, riddles and many other oral literary forms, such as appellations. In our African societies, appellations, as well as many other oral literary forms, do not only show their aesthetic qualities and values through their literary devices, but also they contribute in the moral up-brin...
ABSTRACT The cocoa industry became the mainstay of Ghana’s economy since its introduction in the country in the late 19th century. The industry spread quickly from its original base at Akuapem through Akim to many parts of the country making Ghana the leading producer of cocoa by 1910. However, the industry was faced with a near collapse in the 1930s due to the emergence of the deadly swollen shoot disease that was fast destroying many farms. This compelled the colonial administration to e...
B A C K G R O U N D The exploration of natural resources is a means of enhancing man's standard of living from primitive life to a more advanced and enjoyable life. However, technological processes sometimes lead to adverse effects on the environment and human health. In the extraction of gold from its ore, as is done at Obuasi goldmines, the roasting process results in the expulsion of poisonous smoke of Brsenic oxides into the atmosphere. This hae lead to serious defoliation of the vegetat...
ABSTRACT Ghana joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at independence in 1957 and has benefitted from fifteen stabilisation programmes with the current Extended Credit Facility (ECF) being the sixteenth. This study seeks to critically assess the performance under the programme from April 2015 to December 2017. It argues that, the fundamental challenges that necessitated a bailout from the 20th century to present has not changed that much, hence a need to address the root causes of the ...
ABSTRACT Dance is an important tool for communication of thoughts and sentiments by individuals and the community as a whole. This communicative ability of dance has made it essential for modern day communication. In recent times, many business establishments in an attempt to accrue the maximum returns through advertisements resort to the use of art forms as a means of attracting potential consumers. This thesis explores in details, how dance, through choreography can be packaged into ...
ABSTRACT The main goal of this study is to describe the morphological properties of C’lela; a Niger-Congo, Western Kainji language spoken in the eastern part of Kebbi State, Nigeria. The study mainly adopted the classic descriptive model of linguistics in particular to explore and highlight the morphological processes and properties of C’lela. The relevant data for the study were sourced mainly from the extant literature on C’lela as well as the field data. By and large, the primary dat...
ABSTRACT This study is primarily concerned with historical developments that cover a period of over three hundred years, with the purpose of establishing the evolution of a state system among the Gbagyi that inhabit an area referred to as the River Kaduna valley. It was however, not in doubt that the Gbagyi settlements along the River Kaduna never at the earliest times succeeded in forming large centralized political settlements. They were confederate states, or what is popularly referred to ...
The success of a poem is dependent on multifarious elements that may be able to maneuver texts success and fame. This particular poem that is now possessing a status of a classic poem. Observing the rhyming patterns the use of diction the beautiful language in which La De Mare has clothed the whole poetry is phenomenal and impressive. As a matter of fact any text that wants acclamation and acknowledgement by majority of its reader has to build it in such a way that it has a charismatic appeal...
Question: Which instruments of oppression the state of Oceana uses against its subjects? Do they qualify as traits of dystopian fiction? ANSWER 1: This novel is written by George Orwell. And actually he was a person who even rejected his English background conveying the message that he had some ideological differences with the European perception. This novel used realistic themes, there was poverty and dictatorship in the country. When state uses such methods as dictators do in military and...
Abstract This project examines and evaluates the campus-wide networks of five selected universities and two research institutions in Ghana. The nationwide backbone that would be needed to run these networks is also covered. Three of such backbones are identified as VRA Integrated fiber-optic backbone, New National backbone and Ghana Telecom country-wide networks. The Dwivedi and Wagner traffic model provides estimates of traffic demands based on published data on Ghana and selected education...
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