Sexuality in the African society is a serious and an embarrassing issue and it is not supposed to be discussed in the open. It is a taboo to utter taboed words or the act of sex. Euphemisms play a great role in the way people view issues and the way they construct reality in their mind. They help to reduce the impact of the taboed words that we use. Euphemisms are mostly used and are of different types. Connect is a program that uses different types of euphemisms, but we do not know the ...
ABSTRACT Diagnosis in Ifá therapeutic practice makes a distinction between àìsàn ara(physical disease) - conditions that are diagnosable and treatable, and àmódi (somatoform disorders) - conditions that are not diagnosable and treatable using Western medicine. Studies in Ifá therapeutic practice have placed emphasis on àìsàn ara, while the diagnosis and treatment of àmódi have not been adequately addressed. This study, therefore, examines how àmódi is diagnosed and treated in Y...
ABSTRACT The Shangwe under Chireya were not the first to settle on the Mufungabutsi plateau. The original Shangwe on the Mapfungabutsi plateau were the Karanga under Nyamusasa, Mubvuma,Mufunga, Mupare and Manyowi. According to oral traditions Nyamusasa was the paramount ruler while Mubvuma, Mufunga, Mupare and Manyowi were his sub rulers. These were the first to adopt the term Shangwe. Chireya and his people established themselves on the Mapfungabusi Plateau after conquering the local inhabit...
Abstract Oshiwambo, a Bantu language spoken in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola, like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. This thesis is based on the hypothesis that words borrowed from other languages, especially European languages, into Oshiwambo, are phonologically and morphologically modified to fit the Oshiwambo speech system. The data were collected from school textbooks, daily c...
ABSTRACT This study looks at the gender role stereotypes in African children‘s literature. It is conducted through a content analysis of the written works of several African writers of children‘s literature in addition to selected oral children‘s literature such as lullabies and folk tales. Looking at oral and written literature enables a better examination of gender stereotypes in children‘s literature as a whole, instead of looking only at written literature which past studies on t...
ABSTRACT The Yorùbá -Yorùbá N O - - Yorùbá traditional religion and its attendant practice of wood-carving. Existing studies on Yorùbá wood-carving have concen -Yorùbá existed independently for a long time. This study, therefore, identified extant Yorùbá examined areas of divergence in the artistic production of the people. - wood-carvers, priests and adherents of some Yorùbá traditional religion who use wooden paraphernalia in their worship. Direct observation was used to colle...
ABSTRACT Northern Ghana has been impoverished relative to the buoyant urban economy in the South. This process of development has created a spatial dichotomy between Northern and Southern Ghana. This in turn triggered the migration of economically active young people popularly referred to as “kayayei” from the North to the South in search of menial work. This study assesses the reintegration of returned “kayayei” migrants. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches of data collectio...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a study into the cultural impact Akwamu-an Akan sub group, had on Peki-an Ewe sub group.The study adopted the qualitative approach to collect data and interviews were conducted with informants. Archival data was also sourced. Secondary sources such as articles in Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, unpublished theses as well as books The research traced the origin, settlement and growth of Peki. It did the same for Akwamu. The research went on to look at t...
ABSTRACT Over the years healthcare has been identified as a major area of concern among the general population in Ghana. For that matter various policies have been put in place to respond to health needs, but to no avail. Using an explorative study within the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal Assembly of Accra, the study sought to ascertain if any elements of social capital could be relevant in the provision of quality healthcare in conjunction with future policies implemented in Ghana. Using a qual...
ABSTRACT The phenomenon of female chiefs although not new, is somewhat difficult to conceptualize in this predominantly patriarchal part of the world where traditions and taboos restrict women from such positions. This dissertation discusses female chieftaincy based on a case study of Nana Kofi Abuna V, of Essipon traditional area in the Western region of Ghana, looking at how her sex affects her roles and responsibilities as the ultimate ruler of the traditional area. The data used for the s...
ABSTRACT Over the years Institutions have contributed in diverse ways in the management of natural resources. Little is known about the roles of traditional institutions in the management of natural resources. Because of the little knowledge about the roles traditional authorities play, management and sustainability of natural resources becomes a problem in West Gonja traditional area. The research is to find out how the roles and issues of traditional institutions could be mainstreamed in th...
ABSTRACT Decentralization is globally recognized as the way of ensuring community participation and local development. Many countries including Ghana have adopted decentralization and implemented the concept in different ways. In the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region, though the Sub-Municipal structures in the decentralization process have been confronted with much challenges, there has been some remarkable performances. Therefore, the study sought to assess the performance of the Sub...
ABSTRACT ‘Starving the Dead’ is a critical theoretical revelation of indigenous people’s experiences, realities, rationality and interpretation of ‘food’ as a socio-spiritual construct that transcends the materialist meaning of food as ‘nutrition’. It has been necessitated by the criticisim rather than critique of indigenous (food) knowledge by modern science as primitive, superstitious, irrational and therefore ‘unscientific’. This power-based criticism has disrupted th...
ABSTRACT Successful and sustainable agriculture mainly depend on people’s participation, particularly the involvement of the most active and creative section of the population such as the youth. Nevertheless, issues relating to the youth and agriculture still remain largely unknown, especially in the Wa West District of Ghana. This study examined, inter alia, the benefits, challenges and prospects of youth participation in agriculture in the Wa West District by the application of the theo...