ABSTRACT The question of how best developing countries must organize and allocate resources for effective decentralization and local governance has been one that scholars have been grappling with for decades. Several models have been proposed by scholars as a way of providing the most effective and judicious allocation of resources for local government. The focus of this study was to examine the issues of access and use of the Members of Parliament (MPs) share of the District Assemblies Commo...
ABSTRACT Until recently, the concept that governed our view about metaphor was that, it is a figure of speech in which there is comparison between two unlike entities characterised by the schematic form A is B. For this reason, we thought we can get along perfectly well without using it. Today, a new approach to the study of metaphors by the cognitive scientists and linguistists has produced new and important results. Metaphor is now defined as understanding one conceptual domain in terms of ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of motivation on the performance of public sector employees; with special focus on the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The study examined motivational packages available at the Eastern Regional Directorate of the YEA and how performance of employees towards the agency’s corporate objectives is affected. The study adopted the use of quantitative techniques to analyse field data. Findings revealed that, there were enough mo...
ABSTRACT The downstream oil and gas sector is growing at an increasing rate in Ghana. This growth has come with a cost regarding public safety. Various gas explosions have occurred in Ghana leading to injuries, loss of life, and destruction of properties. However, there is little research investigating this problem. The study investigated the interaction between safety climate perception and safety behaviour among fuel station attendants. A self-report survey was used in collecting data from ...
ABSTRACT Countries worldwide could either be origin, transit or destination countries, or all three. Migration can be voluntary or forced, and the resultant effects for migrants and countries involved presents diverse challenges. In this regard, migration is therefore an important area of study. Research has been done on issues related to migration and identity. However, little is known about the inter-relation among migration, identity and land rights focusing on a particular group of long-t...
ABSTRACT Several studies have been conducted in educational settings in Ghana and other parts of the world regarding the linguistic behaviour of teachers, and the implication of such behaviour on the learning outcome of the pupils they teach. In Ghana, where English is learned as a second language, most teachers are unaware of how and when to use code-switching as an L1 resource in their teaching. This situation negatively affects uniformity in instructional procedures. While the use of code ...
ABSTRACT The study determined the perceptions and experiences of Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants on migration to Western Europe through the Sahara Desert. Specific objectives assessed centered on the reasons why Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrate to Western Europe through the Sahara Desert, the experiences Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants go through on the Sahara Desert, the perceptions towards Dormaa Ahenkro youth migrants at their destinations and when they return. The challenges they encountered on t...
ABSTRACT Violence against women consists of several heinous acts that are committed against women and girls. These include rape, domestic violence (DV), murder, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage. Globally, the underlying causes of DV are entrenched in patriarchal value systems that put women in subordinate positions to men. Actions aimed at revealing and fighting violence against women by the second-wave feminists movement during the 1970s in most countries pressured governments ...
ABSTRACT The study examines socio-economic and demographic correlates of labour force participation in Ghana. Data from the 2010 Ghana Population and Housing Census were used for this study. The study focused on the population aged between 15 to 64 years (who were considered to be within the active working age). The analysis was done at three levels namely, univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels. Graphs, frequencies and percentages were used to describe the characteristics of the respo...
ABSTRACT This paper examined beneficiary responses to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities undertaken by MTN Ghana Foundation. The purpose of this study was to shed light on beneficiaries’ attitudes toward CSR projects and sustainability of such projects. The study employed qualitative approaches such as in-depth interviews, artefact analysis and observation with beneficiaries and officials of the Foundation. The researcher purposively focused on two of the Foundation’s educat...
THE ABSTRACT Africa had been referred to as the Dark Continent for several reasons prior to the era of expeditions which opened the continent up. European Anthropologists formulated several ideas about the continent and its peoples; most of which were derogatory, describing the African in the primitive stage as uncivilized backward and lacking any sense of decency. Before the advent of Missionary activities Africa was awash with Traditional Religious activities which the Missionaries found un...
ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth century undoubtedly marked a watershed in African history and historiography. One striking feature of the period was the emergence of a new crop of African historians who were poised to challenge the hegemony of Eurocentric scholarship. Kenneth O. Dike, a prominent Nigerian historian blazed the trail with his magnum opus Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. In Ghana, the trailblazer was Prof. Albert Adu Boahen who was a teacher, scholar and an astute po...
ABSTRACT The present research examines the influence of organizational trust and organizational justice (distributive, procedural and interactional) on predicting contextual work performance. The crossectional survey method was used to collect data from a sample of 195 employees at the Electricity Company of Ghana in Accra. Results of the regression analysis revealed that both organizational trust and organizational justice predicted contextual performance. Distributive justice accounted for ...
ABSTRACT Recognized as the founding father of modern African Literature in English, Achebe stands out as perhaps one of the most critiqued authors due to his portrayal of women in his early novels. In an attempt to respond to the disparaging representation of Africa in colonial novels such as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Achebe focused on portraying the power and charisma of the African male; the adverse effect of this being weak submissive women who succumbed to these powerful men. T...
ABSTRACT The contribution of communication in the fight of HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancies has become an important phenomenon in the health of adolescents and young people in Ghana. With a sample of 200 students from Labone High School, this study sought to investigate the x sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information seeking behaviour among students. Labone Senior High School is a mixed gender school where there is a proportional representation of students from a varied socio-economic ...