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Author: E. V. Asihene
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the fine arts and handicrafts of a small republic in western Africa is important for its valuable information about the traditional art and the renewed interest in its preservation and continuation by native artists today.
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.
Author: Kojo Fosu
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 1774
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples. Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples. While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.
Author: Debbi Chocolate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1997-10-01
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0802775284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rhyming description of the kente cloth costumes of the Ashanti and Ewe people of Ghana and a portrayal of the symbolic colors and patterns.
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2000-12-31
Total Pages: 1847
ISBN-13: 9231028138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume IV deals with the 'Middle Ages'. It starts with the expansion of Islam and closes with the discovery of the New World. Various events during this period led to a significant expansion in communications: the rapid spread of Islam and of Gengis Khan's Mongol Empire, as well as the Crusades and the development of trans-Saharan and maritime routes around Africa to the Indian Ocean, leading to multiplied exchanges between the peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Author: Robert A. Myers
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven J. Salm
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2002-03-30
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an overview of the history and culture of Ghana, featuring discussion of the country's religion and thought, the arts, cuisine and traditional dress, gender roles, marriage and family, social customs, and lifestyle.
Author: Gilbert Bobbo Ahiagble
Publisher: Open Hand Publishing, LLC
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 094088061X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary male weaver from Ghana explains how his people maintain the tradition of weaving, including an explanation of the strip weaving of Kente cloth and its importance in their Ewe culture.
Author: Joseph K. Adjaye
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1997-03-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0822971771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls' Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of Rasta to the evolving significance of kente clothl from rap video music to hip-hop to zouk.The contributors work through the prisms of many disciplines, including anthropology, communications, English, ethnomusicology, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political economy, psychology, and social work. Their interpretive approaches place the many voices of popular black cultures into a global context. It affirms that black culture everywhere functions to give meaning to people's lives by constructing identities that resist cultural, capitolist, colonial, and postcolonial domination.
