ABSTRACT The study determined the perceptions and experiences of Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants on migration to Western Europe through the Sahara Desert. Specific objectives assessed centered on the reasons why Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrate to Western Europe through the Sahara Desert, the experiences Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants go through on the Sahara Desert, the perceptions towards Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants at their destinations and when they return. The challenges they encountered on t...
ABSTRACT Violence against women consists of several heinous acts that are committed against women and girls. These include rape, domestic violence (DV), murder, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage. Globally, the underlying causes of DV are entrenched in patriarchal value systems that put women in subordinate positions to men. Actions aimed at revealing and fighting violence against women by the second-wave feminists movement during the 1970s in most countries pressured governments ...
ABSTRACT The study examines socio-economic and demographic correlates of labour force participation in Ghana. Data from the 2010 Ghana Population and Housing Census were used for this study. The study focused on the population aged between 15 to 64 years (who were considered to be within the active working age). The analysis was done at three levels namely, univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels. Graphs, frequencies and percentages were used to describe the characteristics of the respo...
ABSTRACT This paper examined beneficiary responses to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by MTN Ghana Foundation. The purpose of this study was to shed light on beneficiaries’ attitudes toward CSR projects and sustainability of such projects. The study employed qualitative approaches such as in-depth interviews, artefact analysis and observation with beneficiaries and officials of the Foundation. The researcher purposively focused on two of the Foundation’s educat...
THE ABSTRACT Africa had been referred to as the Dark Continent for several reasons prior to the era of expeditions which opened the continent up. European Anthropologists formulated several ideas about the continent and its peoples; most of which were derogatory, describing the African in the primitive stage as uncivilized backward and lacking any sense of decency. Before the advent of Missionary activities Africa was awash with Traditional Religious activities which the Missionaries found un...
ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth century undoubtedly marked a watershed in African history and historiography. One striking feature of the period was the emergence of a new crop of African historians who were poised to challenge the hegemony of Eurocentric scholarship. Kenneth O. Dike, a prominent Nigerian historian blazed the trail with his magnum opus Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. In Ghana, the trailblazer was Prof. Albert Adu Boahen who was a teacher, scholar and an astute po...
ABSTRACT The present research examines the influence of organizational trust and organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) on predicting contextual work performance. The crossectional survey method was used to collect data from a sample of 195 employees at the Electricity Company of Ghana in Accra. Results of the regression analysis revealed that both organizational trust and organizational justice predicted contextual performance. Distributive justice accounted for ...
ABSTRACT Recognized as the founding father of modern African Literature in English, Achebe stands out as perhaps one of the most critiqued authors due to his portrayal of women in his early novels. In an attempt to respond to the disparaging representation of Africa in colonial novels such as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Achebe focused on portraying the power and charisma of the African male; the adverse effect of this being weak submissive women who succumbed to these powerful men. T...
ABSTRACT The contribution of communication in the fight of HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies has become an important phenomenon in the health of adolescents and young people in Ghana. With a sample of 200 students from Labone High School, this study sought to investigate the x sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information seeking behaviour among students. Labone Senior High School is a mixed gender school where there is a proportional representation of students from a varied socio-economic ...
ABSTRACT Globally, food security continues to be a complex phenomenon that people across all fields have to manage. In developing countries of which Ghana is part of, the number of people who are food insecure keeps increasing. Little attention has been given to households in the rural areas of the agro-ecological zones and how their occupation influences food security. This study seeks to examine the relationship between occupation and food security in the agro-ecological zones in rural Ghan...
ABSTRACT GAEC‘s mandate to commercialise its research activities has become very crucial and this cannot be achieved without the media. There is, therefore, the need for thorough investigation into GAEC current media relation practice in order to understand journalists‘ perception and what could be done to improve the relations. In line with this, a research on Journalists‘ perception of GAEC‘s media relation was undertaken. This research was intended to answer questions on how much i...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the moderating role of intragroup trust and team transformational leadership on the relationship between team psychological safety and learning behaviour in teams. Fifty seven work teams comprising four hundred and fifty six respondents in teams of seven to nine members were purposively sampled from five financial institutions in Accra. Ghana. Team members completed questionnaires on Team Psychological Safety (Edmondson. 1999). Intragroup trust (Simons & Peters...
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the mission histories of the Assemblies of God Church and the Church of Pentecost in Ghana. It focuses on the similarities and differences in their approaches to mission and their different theological orientations that have contributed to their different growth. The issue of mission is problematised because these Pentecostal Churches‟ different conceptions have led them to emphasize different aspects of mission. Methodologically, the study employed the histori...
ABSTRACT Health is a crucial economic and social asset, particularly for the working low- and middleincome groups in developing countries. However, effective access to health care seems to be practically impossible without a well-functioning system that adequately protects users of health care services against the associated financial risks, especially, at the time they need them. The implementation and goal of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Deve...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine the communication activities of two major charismatic churches in Ghana, the Action Chapel International and the International Central Gospel Church, and extract the advertising activities if any. The study also sought to ascertain why these churches advertise and the advertising channels used. Charismatic churches in Africa and beyond, undertake a plethora of communication activities that appear to suggest advertising practice. The study wil...