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Abstract: The 26th volume of Ghana Studies marks our first attempt as caretakers, to continue the good work done by previous editors. We are grateful for the anonymous peer reviewers, who went beyond their daily responsibilities to make time to share their expertise with us. We also thank Chloe Lauer, Toni Gunnison, and David Bulgerin of the University of Wisconsin Press for their support throughout the year. This Ghana Studies volume includes eight research articles, a review essay, and two book reviews. The articles are grouped under thematic headings "Colonial Encounters," "Women and Silences," "Living with Animals," and "On Aging."The subsection "Colonial Encounters" begins the conversation with the ubiquitous subject of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Christian missionary activities consciously or unconsciously aided European imperial expansion in tropical Africa. John and Jean Comaroff have shown in the case of Southern Africa that although missionaries did not deliberately set out to support colonial enterprise, they nonetheless brought with them ideas and consciousness which cohered with the paternalistic civilizing mission ideology of the colonial state, and acted as "the most active cultural agents of Empire."1 By so doing, missionaries laid the essential foundation that prepared Africans to adopt what was believed to be superior values of European civilization.2 Though, both the administration and the missionaries sought to bring civilization to a people ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: After the start of the Second World War, the British government, in a bid to lessen sociopolitical discontent in their colonies, enacted the Colonial Development Act of 1940. This act was intended as a vehicle through which the government could initiate developmental programs in the colonies to douse dissent and meet the increasing demand for more political participation. Jon Hove points out in his work, Development and Decolonisation: The Gold Coast (Ghana), 1940–1957, that in the Gold Coast, the educated intelligentsia used the spirit of the Colonial Development Act to carve more spaces for themselves in the colonial power structure.1 They achieved this by adopting the rhetoric of development to gain more control ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Early studies on Ghanaian "market women" inadvertently lent support to the popular image of female traders as poorly educated women working in the informal economy by default. More recent work adds nuance to this picture by demonstrating that women, some with secondary and higher education, choose to trade in global consumer items because it offers both opportunities for wealth-making and the flexibility that comes from self-employment (Darkwah, 2002; 2016). These women can build transnational trading enterprises by using their social location in service of their work, and by drawing on their access to social capital at home and financial capital in the Global North (Bowles, 2013). This article contributes to the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On a warm, muggy day in August 2019, a team of researchers from the University of Ghana under the auspices of the Illuminations: Patterns of Knowledge on Africa and Latin America project headed to Bubiashie, a suburb of Accra to interview descendants of the Afro-Brazilian returnee community about the role Brazil plays in their collective imagination. Approaching the entrance of a building erected around a courtyard, a group of male respondents welcomed us in. We were immediately taken in by the spatially gendered architecture with a female and male section. Our male respondents were very eager to speak to us about their Brazilian heritage. As the conversation progressed, we noticed a group of women congregating ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Student activism has been an essential phenomenon in shaping African democracies (Altbach 1984; Byaruhanga 2006; Luescher and Klemencic 2017; Luescher et al 2016; Mama 2003; Zeilig and Dawson 2008). In Ghana, students played prominent roles in ensuring political stability, economic accountability, and human rights preservation (Peil 1966; Finlay 1968; Chazan 1983; Oquaye 1980, 2004; Gyampo 2013; Sapong 2014; Asiedu-Acquah 2018). Gyampo (2013: 51) sees student activism as "activities either in support of or opposition to regimes and their leaders pursued by students of tertiary institutions". Byaruhanga (2006: 33) adds that such activities may be formal or informal; and may occur both at the national level (oriented ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Are elephants beautiful'" This is a question I posed to farmers and herders living around Mole National Park during research trips over the past five years.1 Methodologically, it is a weak question because it requires only a binary response, and yet, of all the questions I asked it was one of the few that sparked meaningful conversation. People responded quickly that yes, elephants are beautiful, and they did so mostly in a matter-of-fact way, casually using local terms for beauty that express a positive aesthetic in an uncomplicated way. Every person I asked around Mole gave this same, affirmative response, and the majority of people just left it at that. However, after some thought, some people chose to add more ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Metaphors are one of the most researched literary devices. Metaphors are deployed daily to indicate our relationship with nature, environment, and society, as well as our body, emotions, culture, religion, and others. Many Akan linguists and philosophers including Agyekum (2020, 2018) Ansah (2014) and Gyekye (1997) have worked on areas of Akan metaphor. For example, Ansah (2014) discussed the metaphoric and metonymic conceptualisations of fear among the Akans. The closest works are found in Yakub (2019) on the Nzema animal metaphor on proverbs and Olateju (2005) on the Yoruba animal metaphor. Since Akan, Nzema and Yoruba belong to the Kwa family group of West Africa, they may share some similar animal metaphors.Our ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Globally, the elderly are found in varied living arrangements in their bid to access long-term care to perform activities of daily living (Kasper, et al., 2019; Morales, & Robert, 2022). Living in an extended family household formed the basis for the traditional family support system of the aged. For centuries, it stood as a key manifestation of devotion to the family (Silverstein, et al., 2006; Tran, et al., 2020). Studies have shown that multigenerational households and co-residence of the elderly and adult children were a common type of living arrangement globally until incomes began to increase and trends of living arrangements began to shift towards independent living (Glaser & Grundy, 1998; Costa, 1999; ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: 'History of Ashanti' by Otumfuo, Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II (hereafter HA) is an invaluable addition to the vast array of sources for the history of the precolonial kingdom of Asante. At the center of the work is the nearly four hundred and fifty page (original) narrative history of the Asante kings composed under the direction of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Agyeman Prempeh II (r. 1931–1970). The book is important not only for making available this new primary source, an "insider's" perspective on the Asante past, but equally for the extraordinary work that editor T. C. McCaskie has done in providing background and context to the document. In doing so he has masterfully applied the massive amount of oral tradition ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Mariano Pavanello's Shores of Slaves is a collection of somewhat disparate essays and lectures on the Nzema people of southwestern Ghana that situates the community within different historical, ethnological and chronological contexts and discussions. These essays include debates about the origins of the Nzema and the Akan, late fifteenth century European contact and the Atlantic slave trade, Christian missionary activities, commerce and gender relations in colonial and postcolonial southwestern Ghana. Pavanello rightly states that Shores of Slaves, belongs to a long tradition of Italian ethnographic research in southwestern Ghana since 1954 (xi). Though Pavanello does not discuss the reason for this particular ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Itamar Dubinsky's Entrepreneurial Goals is one of the latest formulations in a long list of scholarly works that have conceptualized development in Africa. In approaching the discourse on development through sports, Dubinsky troubles the long-held perception that sports entrepreneurship, which is grounded in the notion of Africapitalism, is the ultimate answer for development in Africa. Entrepreneurial Goals, thus, unpacks the complexities of the contributions of sports entrepreneurship to development in Africa by examining the origins, operations, and social and economic impacts of three local sports academies in Ghana: Mandela Soccer Academy, Kumasi Sports Academy, and Unistar Soccer Academy. It takes the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: SAMUEL ADU-GYAMFIKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologymcgyamfi@yahoo.comKOFI AGYEKUMUniversity of Ghanakagyekum@ug.edu.ghBENJAMIN AMAKYE-BOATENGUniversity of Ghanabamakye-boateng@ug.edu.ghCYRELENE AMOAH-BOAMPONGUniversity of Ghanaacyrelene@gmail.comJOSHUA A. AMUAHUniversity of Ghanajamuah@ug.edu.ghEUGENIA AMA BREBA ANDERSONKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologyamaeugenia24@gmail.comNANA AKUA ANYIDOHOUniversity of Ghanaanyidoho@ug.edu.ghADWOA ARHINEUniversity of Ghanaaarhine@ug.edu.ghGEORGE M. BOB-MILLIARKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technologygbobmilliar.cass@knust.edu.ghAKOSUA K. DARKWAHUniversity of Ghanaadarkwah@ug.edu.ghJOSEPH KACHIMUniversity of Cape ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-27T00:00:00-05:00
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