ABSTRACT The sharing of domestic expenses between conjugal units in Ghanaian households has changed overtime. The way and manner in which conjugal units in rural Ghana shared their domestic expenses tend to be different from how conjugal units in urban Ghana share their domestic expenses. This is as a result of the change in factors such as the shift from the farming system in agrarian economies of the rural areas to monetized urban economies where there is the market system, access to educat...
ABSTRACT The arrival of the North German Missionary Society, also known as the Bremen Mission, in the Volta Region of Ghana was of great significance. Their contact with the people of the Volta Region marked the birth of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, and other developmental activities in Eweland. The study offers a missiological perspective of the influence of diverse activities of the Bremen Mission in early German missionised and colonial communities of Peki, Keta, Waya, Anyak...
ABSTRACT Physical aggression, psychological mistreatment and sexual abuse against women in intimate unions are public health concerns globally. They constitute infringements on human rights, and are a huge economic burden to nations. Research suggests that individual level factors and women’s subordinate position to men predispose them to male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV). In sub-Saharan Africa where marriages are near universal, little is known about the cultural context wit...
Abstract This study examined the internal communication strategies and channels used by Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) in its preparations towards crises. It also studied ECG’s employees’ perceptions of those channels used in communicating crisis-related information to them. An in-depth interview was conducted with the ECG Public Relations Manager and results of the responses were analyzed using Morgan’s ethnography summary. In addition, a survey was conducted on 100 employe...
ABSTRACT This study primarily sought to investigate the effects of colonialism on the cultural identities of Africans, using Ghana and South Africa as case studies. Cultural identity was categorised into 3 major components; customs and traditions, language and land and it is within this ambit that both theoretical and empirical literature were sought and discussed to achieve the study objectives. Hence, this research confined itself to events during and after the colonial period (and aparthe...
ABSTRACT Background to the study Radon is a globally present and known radioactive gas with its ability to cause lung cancer as its major health implication. Ghana currently lacks national policies on radon gas and substantive radon vulnerability map largely due to lack of adequate baseline radon concentration data for the entire country. This thesis thus seeks to provide baseline radon data for the South-Dayi District, the effective dose assessment due to inhalation of the measured in-door c...
ABSTRACT The n-butanol fraction (nBF) of Desmodium adscendens , a plant used for the management of asthma, is' an inhibitor of NADFH-dependent cytochrcme P-450 (CYP) reactions. Its mechanism of action as an inhibitor is hcwever not kncwn. In this stud/, flavoprotein reductase activity, spectral changes associated with binding and spectral prcperties of reduced cytochrcme c and CYP were used to investigate the mode of inhibition. nBF reduced cytochrome c but not CYP directly. In the presence o...
ABSTRACT Britain's initial consideration to become a member of the European Community began on 1 August 1961, but officially became a member of the EU on June 7, 1975. The UK in contemporary times has been the second greatest contributor after Germany, to financing the budget of the EU. However, the decision by the UK on June 23, 2016, to leave the European Union (which has been termed ‘Brexit’) has generated much global concerns on both the shortterm and long-term implications this move...
Introduction This work is a comparative study of the numeric system of two of the most widely spoken languages not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world as a whole. It is to explain the styles adopted by the speakers of both languages in expressing numeral situations. In the early days of some comparison between languages, some scholars had argued that there was such a strong linguistic affinity between Hausa and English numerals so much that the two languages could have common meaning ...
Introduction All over the world, democracy have been embraced, while principles have assumed as the main pillar in selecting political leaders in a democratic society. In West Africa, undoubtedly, the most appropriate platform for selecting leaders is through elective principles. This process of selecting leaders has been in use, in the selected West African Countries: Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia. Historically, these three West African States have many things in common: located in the same re...
ABSTRACT Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Ghana face a lot of challenges in meeting their basic needs as a result of their limited access to services and opportunities on an equal basis with others. Evidence of their challenges is seen on our streets where many of them solicit alms as a way of surviving. Successive governments have responded to the call to give special consideration to PWDs by providing them with assistance that will relieve them from poverty. In view of this, PWDs are alloc...
ABSTRACT This study examines the nature and structure of post-conflict peacebuilding in Liberia and Sierra Leone since 2000. It focuses specifically on peacebuilding process in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Previous researches on peacebuilding as a tool of conflict management have generated a lot of questions in academic circles. This is because there is a disagreement among experts on how peacebuilding works. The difficulty has been compounded by the fact that discussions on peacebuilding are o...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to examine the contribution that government social intervention programme, specifically Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and Free Uniform and Exercise Book Policy have made to the well being of children with disability in the Kadjebi District of the Volta Region. It also investigated the informal social support services in the study area for the wellbeing of children with disability. Thirdly, the study reviewed some exist...
Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine protection of Africa’s cultural heritage through digital preservation. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method consisting of survey and interview techniques were used to gather both quantitative and qualitative data from selected cultural heritage institutions and national agencies in Nigeria. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect data from Curators, Archivists, and Librarians. A total of sixty five staff from ...
ABSTRACT This research aimed at exploring the role of ethnic-based associations in Accra and their impact on rural development. It specifically sought to examine rationales behind the formation of ethnic-based associations, their activities and its impacts, to explore their challenges in relation to their interaction at community and local authority levels and as well to find out their involvement in decision making processes that concern their beneficiary communities. The study adopted socia...