The Flagbearers of Ghana
Author: Kojo T. Vieta
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 180
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The Flagbearers of Ghana
Author: Kojo T. Vieta
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulture and Customs of Ghana
Author: Steven J. Salm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-03-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 031301132X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe decades of independence in Ghana have strengthened the idea of a national Ghanaian culture. The culture and customs of Ghana today are a product of diversity in traditional forms, influenced by a long history of Islamic and European contact. Culture and Customs of Ghana is the first book to concisely provide an up-to-date narrative on the most significant elements of the established cultural life and institutions as well as the most recent changes in the cultural landscape. Written expressly for students and the general reader, it belongs in every library supporting multicultural and African studies curricula. Ghana seeks to cultivate the philosophy of the African personality, to revive, maintain, and promote Ghanaian ways of life and integrate them into political and social institutions. Ghanaians also recognize their relationship to the rest of the world and continue to develop with the forces of globalization. Culture and Customs of Ghana authoritatively discusses the vibrant and adaptable people, from their religions to music and dance. A chronology, glossary, and numerous photos complement the text.
A History of Women in Politics in Ghana 1957-1992
Author: Eric Sakyi Nketiah
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1546290265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the history of Ghanaian women's involvement in the politics of the country prior to the launch of the Fourth Republic in January, 1993. The political history of Ghana prior to 1993 showcases experience with various political systems. Ghana, for example, had the experience of life under Prime Ministers, Presidents and Military Heads of State. Within all these experimental and sometimes even purely adventurous environments, women played various roles. The roles, however, differed from one regime to another. This work has tried to briefly tell the political history of Ghana but highlighted the role of women in the life of this young West African country..
Beyond the Political Spider
Author: Kwesi Yankah
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1920033823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series. By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. In the face of these challenges, the author deftly navigates the complex terrain of indigenous knowledge and language in the context of democratic politics, demonstrating that agency can be liberatory when emphasising indigenous knowledge, especially expressed through the idiom of local languages and symbols, including Ananse, the protean spider, folk hero in Ghana and most parts of the pan-African world.
Encyclopedia of African Literature
Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 1134582234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
Dictionary of African Biography
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher:
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 3382
ISBN-13: 0195382072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Tabom. The Afro-Brazilian Community in Ghana
Author: Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1847990134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKO primeiro livro sobre a história dos tabons, a comunidade afro-brasileira do Gana. Eles voltaram à África Ocidental entre 1829 e 1836. "Este livro parece pequeno, mas possui muitas portas, como se fosse um casarão. Elas se abrem para várias e diferentes paisagens e nos deixam ver, primeiro, de fraque e cartola e, depois, envoltas em belo pano kente, as figuras humanas que as povoaram e cujas histórias os atuais tabons repetem de cor. Se, em suas páginas, aprendemos muito sobre o grupo tabom, graças ao cuidado e à inteligência com que Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel soube ouvir e ler, elas nos pedem que saibamos mais." (Alberto da Costa e Silva)
Africa's Hidden Histories
Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0253347297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Africa's Hidden Histories' takes a private and personal look into the world of everyday Africans, as they put pen to paper. As it explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing, the text opens new avenues for understanding a rich and hidden history of Africa's creative expression.
Sense and Essence
Author: Birgit Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-07-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1785339419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.
