Ghana My Motherland
Ghana My Motherland

Author: Reverend Georgina Mensah-Brown

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1491881119

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Old things are old. Why should I be bothered with old news when I am moving forward?. History belongs to those who lived it. We are also making ours. This is what some young adults would say, but from where community have reached, some might not be able to tell as to how to focus on the future. Do you know that people have been walking to school daily covering three or more miles to school and back in many places?. Can you think a child going to school barefooted as compared to our modern world?. When did the market become dry with the sale of no fish except one type of fish whether people liked it or not?. What happens when governments are overthrown only to continue facing hardships. Have you come across empty shops with essential goods being hoarded and sold in private? When there was no fashion of today, what sort of dresses were the fashion of yesterday. If you were to be in any underdeveloped country or certain parts of Africa or elsewhere, would you be able to compare where you live and why others dont have what you have. Ghana my mother is a simple conversation to tell the younger generation in a simple conversation form, how far the country has come from the old to the new with one more step along the world to go.

Our Motherland - My Life
Our Motherland - My Life

Author: Kojo Yankah

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780992843687

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Our Motherland - My Life chronicles the remarkable life of a true Ghanaian patriot who has been an active participant and observer in Ghanaian political transitions. His African cultural influences are undergirded by his deep spiritual belief in articulating the needs of Ghana and Africa as an influential communicator. His leadership legacy as a visionary will be remembered for generations to come as one of the best Ghanaian and Pan Africanist thinkers of his generation.

Ghana On My Mind
Ghana On My Mind

Author: Zakiyyah G E Capehart

Publisher: Book Power Publishing

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781945873263

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A JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME In this reflective collection of poetry and prose, poet Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart weaves words, emotions and images as she recounts her soul-stirring journey to Ghana in 2018. Beautiful, inspiring, and empowering, Ghana On My Mind sweeps readers away on an international journey highlighting the culture, customs, architecture, scenery, and of course, the beautiful and friendly people of Ghana. From reflecting on her role as an elder, to her initial loathed reaction to shopping in the markets, Capehart inspires us to research, study, and experience the beauty of Ghana and Africa for ourselves. Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart is a writer, published poet, storyteller, performance artist, visual artist, and radio producer and host. Capehart's poetry is published in many anthologies and has been shared internationally. Her artistic skills combined with a medical background, allow her to produce shows that educate and heal the community. Capehart currently resides with her husband, Bryant, in Oakland, CA.

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay

Author: Patricia McKissack

Publisher: Square Fish

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1250113512

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For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

Lose Your Mother
Lose Your Mother

Author: Saidiya Hartman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-01-22

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780374531157

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An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present.--Elizabeth Schmidt, "The New York Times."

The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana
The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana

Author: Charles Prempeh

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9956553905

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In March 2017, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufu announced his intention to build a national cathedral to the people of Ghana. The announcement elicited watertight counter arguments that morphed into two a priori re-litigated assumptions: First, Ghana is a secular country and second, religion and state formation are incompatible. Informed by a frustrating paradox of an overwhelming religious presence and concurrent pervasive corruption in the country, public conversation reached a cul-de-sac of “conviction without compromising.” In The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana, Charles Prempeh deploys the national cathedral as an entry point to provide both interdisciplinary and autoethnographic understanding of religion and politics. The book shows the capacity of religion, when properly cultivated and curated as a worldview to answer the why questions of life, will foster personal, moral, collective and ontological responsibility. All this is needed to stem the tide against corruption, commodity fetishism, environmental degradation (illegal mining—galamsey), heritage destruction and religious exploitation. Prempeh recuperates a historical fact about the mutual inclusivity between religion and politics—politics helping to manage differences, while religion provides a transcendental reason for unity to be forged for human flourishing. Separating the two is, therefore, ahistorical and an obvious threat to the intangible virtues that answers, “why and how” questions for public governance.

Becoming Successful (Harvesting Your Success)
Becoming Successful (Harvesting Your Success)

Author: Gaddiel R. Ackah

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1662425392

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Conclusion. When moments pass in our lives and we realize that our lives mismatch the life we imagined in our past, its better we change our current choices, decisions, and dreams so that we can enjoy better life in future because everything you are doing now reflects your life in the future. We reap what we sow. Successful life is never a mere hoping and wishing, but it’s about active doing, active determination, and active becoming by sowing meaningful big dreams and investments today to get meaningful life tomorrow. Becoming successful is not limited to age, location or education. It is only limited to ‘I won’t’. Success depends on principles and positive use of your brain. The human brain including yours are the storehouse of all the magic we need to heal all the wounds of unsuccessful lives in our world. Just change your altitude and take first step to begin something now and you will enjoy success as J. K. Rowling said “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the powers we need inside ourselves already”. It’s never too late, too young or too old to begin planning your future from now and get started all over by dreaming newer goals and possibilities today for a better future. Officer Ackah, using practical examples, prompts readers that the great technological and infrastructural advancements and positions in the United States and elsewhere did not magically fall from the sky, but they were created by the positive application of the minds of ordinary people like you. This book helps you to change your altitudes, thinking and get started to create unimaginable successes, advancements and positions in our world to place you on top, and you will become the topic of remembrance. Officer Ackah, speaking from personal experiences of victory and success from both the civilian and military points, has provided the positive, passionate, practical and possible principles to arouse your appetite for creating unbelievable successes to change your life exceptionally and to effect inimitably the transformation of our world. Gaddiel R Ackah is encouraging readers in finding freedom in their lives to overcome the three mistakes that block successful living; fear to identify one’s purposes in life, ignorant of how powerful their brain can work to change things and the misunderstanding of creating desirable successes. He prompts that you are not living to tiptoe and die but to achieve your dreams by your positive and courageous daily choices and investments. When life is not okay, but you are struggling in life, this book is for you to reexamine and change your goal, job title, and social status. 2 2

The People of Ghana
The People of Ghana

Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher: New Africa Press

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9987160506

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This is a general survey of Ghana and its people. Subjects covered include the country's regions and their people; Ghana's identity as a nation and how it faced challenges to national unity during the struggle for independence; the nature of the post-colonial state; the asymmetrical relationship between the north and the south rooted in the colonial era, a structural imbalance which continues to have a negative impact on the wellbeing of northerners and which could perpetuate inequalities between the two parts of the country; Ghana's place in the Pan-African world because of the leadership provided by the country's first prime minister – later president – Kwame Nkrumah; and its success in forging unity on the anvil of diversity. Among the people the author has covered include an African American community whose members were given some land in the Volta Region in the eastern part of the country for permanent settlement of the descendants of African slaves who want to return to the motherland. He describes it as a distinct ethnic group with the same attributes indigenous groups have and which they use to identify themselves as ethnic entities. The community has acquired an identity of its own and qualifies as an ethnic group because its members have a common history, language and culture as diasporans who lost their African identity under white domination in the United States and were forced to adopt a Euro-American culture and the English language. The author was closely associated with the founders of the African American community in Ghana, known as Fihankra, when he was a student in the United States and has written about them in some of his works including his autobiography, “My Life as an African.” Members of the general public and students may find this work to be useful if they want to learn some facts about Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence.

GHANA: DIARY OF A SON'S SANKOFA RETURN
GHANA: DIARY OF A SON'S SANKOFA RETURN

Author: Willie (Kweku) Singleton

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2015-04-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1426906366

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‘Ghana: Diary of A Son’s Sankofa Return’ is a partial diary of the author’s first trip to Accra, Ghana While in Ghana, the author lived with a Fanti family. Chapters in the book deal with his interactions primarily with members of the Ga and Fanti tribes. The reader is led through some of the events that helped the author become more attached to the African continent.. Some of the traditions (including the Fanti naming conventions) he learned about are shared in this diary. From the very first day in Ghana until the plane returns to America, you travel with the author through the Botany Gardens, Nkrumah Museum, Tema, Cape Coast Dungeon, Elmina Dungeon, Akosombo Dam, DuBois Cultural Center, Kumasi Festival, and a unique church offering tradition.