ABSTRACT Humour is an integral part of our daily lives, however, it is one of the least studied phenomena. This thesis, therefore, discusses humour in Akan, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo language family spoken in Ghana. The study focused on providing an ethnographic and ethnopragmatic description of the nature of humour and how it manifests in the language. Using the Incongruity theory (c.f. Kant, Cicero, Schopenhauer), the study provides explanations on why people find certain circumstan...
ABSTRACT This study examined the usage of performative sentences, mainly the imperative types in the poetic collection of al-Wazir Junayd (d. 1417 AH), who is considered one of the most prolific and talented West African Muslim writers and poets during the 20th C.E. He was an authority in History, Linguistic, and Literature, and above all, a statesman, and a celebrated poet par excellence. The study sought to determine the degree of the usage of performative sentences in al- Wazir Junayd's an...
ABSTRACT Negotiating identity is a key factor to a people surrounded by many other differences such as other ethnic groups and communities with different orientations. Such is the story of the Tabom who are African slave returnees from Brazil. The music or organised sound related to their existence helps in the creating of their unique identity as it relates to being Ga on one side, and having had contact with the outside world on the other. Agbe, the music of the Tabom is one of the avenues ...
ABSTRACT The study examined factors responsible for the increase in migration of Fulani herdsmen from the Sahel and their increasing settlement in littoral states in West Africa. It investigates the factors that attract Fulani herdsmen to the Asante-Akim North District and the factors that are responsible for the conflictual relationship between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in Ghana as well as examine how much of the crime in the Agogo area can be traced to the Fulani herdsmen. Four...
ABSTRACT There has been adequate studies on the social integration of international migrants at their destination but less attention has been dedicated to the area of internal migrants and their social integration in Africa as a whole and Ghana in particular. It was against this background that the present study set out to investigate and examine how migrants are socially integrated in Ghana with the emphasis on Builsa migrants in Accra. The study adopted both quantitative and qualitative app...
ABSTRACT After several debates on whether or not women should be ordained in the Presbyterian Church Ghana (PCG), the church eventually ordained women into the clergy and assigned them roles. However, in performing their roles the ordained women ministers are faced with some challenges which are based on socio-cultural, theological and psychological factors. This thesis sets out to investigate the reasons for the scarcity of information about the post ordination activities of women as clergy ...
ABSTRACT There seem, in the 21st century, to be a new generation of women leaders who are playing major leadership roles, such as becoming pastors and establishing their own churches. Previous women’s leadership was confined to leading women, children and groups within their churches. This research seeks to investigate the factors influencing the changing status of women in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches. It also examines the leadership roles of Pentecostalist women. The research ...
ABSTRACT This study looks at Library Management Software, a comparative Study of Cloud Service and In-house Software Implementation at UPSA-Ghana with the help of key performance indicators. The study was aimed at identifying the security effects of Cloud SaaS and In-house Software Management, the benefits of Cloud Service as compared to In-house Software Implementation, the capabilities of the IT personnel at UPSA, as well as trying to find out the challenges encountered by staff in the use ...
ABSTRACT Sacred space is common to almost every religion in the world. A sacred space is a place set apart from a secular space for holy use. In this study, two classifications of sacred spaces have been given, the natural and the man-made, but this study is focused on the man-made sacred spaces. Particularly, the study seeks to examine the Ghanaian Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches’ understanding of sacred space regarding their places of worship. This is against the backdrop of the prolifer...
ABSTRACT The Nima/Mamobi Muslim communities for several years has a traditional method of counselling prospective Muslim couples in the community, however due the challenges of this method there is an introduction of formal premarital counselling centres . This is basically what has aroused the researcher‟s interest. The aim of this research is to highlight the roles of Imams, Muslim scholars, Aluwanka, and relatives of the bride as traditional premarital counsellor and that of Hajia Memuna...
ABSTRACT This study examines the West African civil war novel by investigating how female novelists present the West African civil war narrative. It examines how the female perspective on the civil war ushers in new dimensions that may be missing in earlier male authored novels. The argument of this thesis is that female novelists writing about West African civil war embark on a social agenda in their novels. Their perspective (narration) is one that goes beyond the blood curdling details of ...
ABSTRACT The study examines the transnational practices and activities of Nigerian immigrants in Ghana. Specifically, the study explores factors that influence their migration, economic activities they engage in as well as the effect of transnationalism on the host country. The research design that was adopted was a mixed method. The sample size was made up of 70 respondents selected through stratified sampling procedure. Instruments were questionnaires and in-depth interview guide. The quant...
Abstract This study is predicated on the proposition that globally there is a shift from the hitherto emphasis on the retributive function of punishment to a restorative mode. This has informed a number of nations to subscribe to community service as an alternative to custodial sentencing for some non-violent offences. Ghana’s overemphasis on custodial sentencing has plunged it into some problems, as the nation’s prisons are unable to absorb the increasing number of offenders who are bein...
ABSTRACT The promotion of lifelong learning (LLL) through information literacy (IL) is all learning activity under taken throughout life with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competences within a personal, civic, social and/or employment related perspective. This study reports on survey carried out on ten (10) Regional Public Libraries in Ghana investigating the promotion of LLL through IL. The study used the single case method. The sample size of the population for the study was 37...
ABSTRACT Though several studies have shown an association between mobility and risky sexual behaviour, these studies did not distinguish between mobile and migrant population. However, the tendency for a mobile person to engage in risky sexual behaviour differs from that of a migrant because of the frequency of movement and the short duration of stay of a mobile person. This study therefore examined the relationship between mobility and risky sexual behaviour in Ghana using the 2014 Ghana Dem...