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The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991
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ISBN: 0520077520 0520077539 0585363641 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,


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A dictionary and grammatical outline of Chakali
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ISBN: 3944675924 3944675916 9783944675923 9783946234937 9783944675916 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press,

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This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chakali, a Southwestern Grusi language spoken by less than 3500 people in northwest Ghana. The dictionary offers a consistent description of word meaning and provides the basis for future research in the linguistic area. It is also designed to provide an inventory of correspondence with English usage in a reversal index. The concepts used in the dictionary are explained in a grammar outline, which is of interest to specialists in Gur and Grusi linguistics, as well as any language researchers working in this part of the world.


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The Ghana Reader : History, Culture, Politics
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ISBN: 9780822359845 9780822359920 Year: 2016 Publisher: Durham Duke University Press


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Current Challenges with their Evolving Solutions in Surgical Practice in West Africa : A Reader
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ISBN: 9988860285 9789988860288 9789988647391 9789988860226 9988647395 9988647603 9789988647605 9789988647650 9789988647605 9988647654 1283005220 9786613005229 9988647883 998864776X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Sub-Saharan Publishers,

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Worldwide, there is a plethora of study materials in the form of authoritative review articles on disease entities afflicting the Western world but relatively few publications exploring similar problems confronting the developing countries, where resource limitation adds an extra dimension to the challenges facing the clinician. The contributions in this Reader address common surgical challenges and what measures have evolved to countenance these problems. This therefore addresses Current Surgical Practice, placing emphasis on the principles underlying the consensus opinions prevailing in


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Managing the environmental crisis in Ghana : the role of African traditional religion and culture with special reference to the Berekum traditional area
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ISBN: 144387132X 1443865362 1322325235 9781443871327 9781443865364 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...

Ethnicity and the making of history in northern Ghana
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ISBN: 0748652965 1280953209 9786610953202 0748626840 9780748626847 9780748652969 9781280953200 6610953201 9780748624010 0748624015 Year: 2006 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute,

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Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self-understanding, and represents a major contribution to debates on ethnicity, colonialism and the 'production of history'. It explores the creation and redefinition of ethnic distinctions and commonalities by African and European actors, showing that ethnicity's power derives from a contradiction: while ethnic identities purport to be non-negotiable, creating permanent bonds, stability and security, the boundaries o

The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony
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ISBN: 1280867159 9786610867158 1429427418 9047406346 1433707624 9781429427418 9789004140974 9004140972 9781433707629 9004140972 9781280867156 6610867151 9789047406341 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The book contains 162 biographical sketches of Ghanaians that were important in business, in society and the church, in government, and in (nationalist) politics, both from Hutchison's own time and from the nineteenth century. The text of the biographies is in blank verse, and portrait photographs accompany most sketches. Additional photographs of houses and special events, and added biographical information in the form of lists of famous deceased people complete the book. The Pen-Pictures is a well-known source for the history of the Gold Coast, modern Ghana, cited and quoted by both professional historians and interested lay-people. In effect, The Pen-Pictures is an important socio-historical document. The format, the style of presentation, the intimacy of many of the life histories, the overview offered of non-European Gold Coast society in the 1920s, they all allow for multiple analyses by historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and scholars of language and literature. This annotated edition is the first reprint of the book and offers a lively and both historically and literarily interesting text about an important phase in Ghanaian history. The added introduction and annotation offer a context hitherto unavailable to the scholar and general reader.


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Nkyin-kyin
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ISBN: 9401206732 1441603565 9781441603562 9789401206730 9042025174 9789042025172 9042025174 9789042025172 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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This collection brings together essays written over a thirty-five year period. They reflect James Gibbs’s position vis-à-vis the Ghanaian theatre as sometimes a remote onlooker, sometimes an enthusiastic participant observer, deeply involved in issues of perception and influence in a society moving through colonialism to nationalism, independence and beyond. The main body of the book is divided into four sections. The first, “Outsiders and Activists,” looks at theatre for community development during the late 1940's, some connections between drama and film, and the astonishing involvement in Ghanaian performance culture of the Haitian poet and playwright Felix Morisseau–Leroy. The second section, “Intercultural Encounters,” examines ways in which classic Greek drama has been used by producers and writers in West Africa, with special reference to Victor Yankah, Kobina Sekyi (Ghana’s first published playwright), and the Nigerian Femi Osofisan. Section Three, “Plays and Playwrights,” concentrates on Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Joe de Graft. This section uncovers issues of documentation and achievement that draw attention to the need for investment in organising resources for writing Ghana’s theatre history. The volume draws to a close with personal accounts of touring student productions in the 1960's (with due attention to the influence of Bertolt Brecht) and of involvement in a British film production on location. The book closes with an updated complete bibliography of Ghana’s chief dramatist, Efua Sutherland.

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