ABSTRACT This study is a local history and will emphasis major indigenous socio-economic developments between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries of Dutch presence in Elmina. It will stress the nature of the Atlantic commercial interactions between Europeans and Africans on the Gold Coast and how the Edinafo intermediated and dominated these interactions. Elmina was drawn into a vibrant Atlantic Ocean trade in gold, European luxury goods, and slaves from the turn of the fifteenth cent...
ABSTRACT For the Krobo, death is considered a calamity. They say, gbenɔ yi mi wa (death is wicked), so ke i na amane tsoɔ i ko wo he la (if I had seen ‘death tree,’ I would have set fire to it). Similar concepts about death can be found in some NT communities. An example was the Johannine community confronted with the problem of justifying death in the community of eternal life (11:37) and how the death of believers is to be understood and faced in this life. If Jesus is truly present, ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how selected characters (Jojo Badu, Marjorie, Norah and Dwayne) in Benjamin Kwakye‘s The Other Crucifix (2010) use the clause as an interactive unit to establish and maintain interpersonal relations. The Mood system and its grammatical categories of Modality, Subject, Polarity, Tense and Vocatives of Halliday‘s Interpersonal Metafunction of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFL) were analyzed for interpersonalness. It also looked at what these categories of...
ABSTRACT Paul in Eph. 4:1-16 exhorts the believers to maintain the unity that has been initiated by the Holy Spirit through the redemptive and reconciliatory work of Christ. He identifies the essence of the unity to be rooted in the existence of a sevenfold uniform creedal ele-ments shared by the believers. Each believer has received a gift according to the measure of Christ’s grace. Christ has given apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers as leadership gifts to the church, wi...
ABSTRACT This research looked to decide the degree of utilization of technology and its influence on performance and organizational strategy at Winmat Publishers Limited which is an educational publishing institution. In achieving a descriptive survey, the objectives of the study were utilized. Again, ―the collection of primary data was done through the use of questionnaire‖. The study‘s targeted population contained the whole Winmat Publishers Limited Head office staff which is 108 per...
ABSTRACT Regalia are invaluable sources of information on the early history and social organization of ethnic groups in Ghana. They do not only show the majesty and wealth of chiefs but also are an indication of societal attitude throughout history. Regalia reflect the long history of groups and their relations with others. The study highlighted the settlement history of Akwamu, their relations with the Ga and Danes on the Accra coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the personali...
ABSTRACT Rural urban migration has been a phenomenon that has gained world attention due to its associated challenges. This study sought to find out the effects of rural urban migration on the sociodemographic characteristics of migrants living in Abossey Okai Zongo. Using a mixed method approach, both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied in the administration of 100 semi-structured questionnaires. The questionnaires were administered using a multi-staged approach. Respondents ge...
ABSTRACT Knowledge production is pivotal to the growth and development of people. As society has evolved so have knowledge production systems. Traditionally, ethnic communities have preserved and transmitted knowledge generated from their beliefs, institutions and customs from one generation to another. With the introduction of Western systems, such communities have also participated in the formalized knowledge system preserved and transmitted through formal institutions of learning such as ...
ABSTRACT This study ties access to rural electrification (RE) services with productivity and rural industrialization in Ghana. The benefit of grid-electricity is pivotal to rural economic growth. The increasing recognition of RE as a source of sustainable energy for agro processing and MSE activities translates into productive use beyond lighting. This variance is embedded in the fact that RE access is woefully inadequate for productive activities among MSEs and agro-processing industries in...
ABSTRACT Social media has become extremely popular in Ghana and various organisations of all sizes are experimenting with social media advertising. Despite this increasing usage there is currently limited research on how social media is used in specific Ghanaian industries. This study was conducted to ascertain why and how Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) uses social media for advertising. The study focused on specific Guinness Ghana Limited brands –Guinness and Malta Guinness. The s...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how messages are organised in Charismatic church programme posters in Ghana. Thus, it identifies and describes the number of semiotic modes present on the posters used by charismatic churches in Ghana and how these modes combine to create a grammar. The study examined twenty charismatic church programme posters in Ghana using the visual grammar approach to multimodality, which was developed by Gunther Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and Generic structure pote...
Abstract Domestic Violence is a phenomenon with grave consequences for individuals, families, and nations at large. Psychologically, abuses by an intimate partner can lead to suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide, posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia, and anxiety disorders. The current study investigated domestic violence against men in Ghana due to the scanty scholarly attention given to the subject. The over-arching objective of the study is to understand the forms, causes of domestic ...
ABSTRACT Livelihoods of migrants have attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers in many studies. However, like most aspects of social policy research, the concept has been looked at emphasizing on the role played by female kayaye in developing countries like Ghana. This study examines livelihood strategies of male migrants in a suburb of Accra, La-Nkwantanang Madina area. The objectives were to identify the capabilities which comprises of strengths and weakness of the male migr...
ABSTRACT Human Resource Management is the process through which management builds the workforce and tries to create the human performances that the organization needs (Boxall & Purcell, 2016). Compensation which is the ability and responsibility of a company to contribute to its employees for their achievement of task and to appreciate their performance is one of the key HRM activity. This study was conducted to examine the effect of compensation on employee effectiveness. This study examined...
ABSTRACT Assessment of shoreline morphological changes provides information about the historical, present and future shoreline positions. Such information is essential to coastal planning and managing natural coastal environments and human communities. Oil exporting facilities which are vital to the economy of Nigeria are located on the Okpoama- Brass shoreline in the Niger delta. The shoreline experiences morphological changes caused by natural and anthropogenic factors. Recent studies on sh...