ABSTRACT The quest for increased female participation and representation in district assembly governance process is a critical concern in Ghana. This is because, it is a fundamental right of women to be given equal chance to contest for political office. In this paper, the study seeks to contribute to the debate on challenges which hinder women's active political participation and representation in district assembly governance process in the Wa municipality. To achieve this goal, purposive ...
ABSTRACT Migration takes so many forms and all these have their own challenges, constraints and motivation. In view of this, it is important to identify some of these travel constraints and also further identify the information channels used by some of the migrants and their perceptions about embassies. Against this backdrop, this study examined students‘ perception about how embassies influence destination choice, travel constraints and migration information channels on University of Ghana...
ABSTRACT Ghana has joined several international organizations in order to enhance international cooperation with other states in addressing global security and development crises. However, this particular study focuses predominantly on Ghana’s membership to the United Nations (UN). Ghana has been a member of the UN since August 8, 1957 and as such has contributed significantly to addressing international security and development crises through the systems and structures of the UN. Towards t...
ABSTRACT Divorce is becoming a major developmental issue in modern society because of its high rate of increase in recent years. While the phenomenon has gained much attention in research in the developed world, less is known in the developing world especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile works have shown that through the processes of modernization and globalization, Sub-Saharan Africa including Ghana is beginning to experience the same family changes caused by divorce in the developed wo...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to examine the current resource sharing activities among the six public university libraries in Ghana, with emphasis specifically, on the resource sharing activities of the Balme Library of the University of Ghana, Legon and the Library of the University for Development Studies, Tamale. The researcher used techniques such as the administration of questionnaire and interviews to collect data. The findings of the research include the absence of a formal r...
ABSTRACT This study is a local history and will emphasis major indigenous socio-economic developments between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries of Dutch presence in Elmina. It will stress the nature of the Atlantic commercial interactions between Europeans and Africans on the Gold Coast and how the Edinafo intermediated and dominated these interactions. Elmina was drawn into a vibrant Atlantic Ocean trade in gold, European luxury goods, and slaves from the turn of the fifteenth cent...
ABSTRACT For the Krobo, death is considered a calamity. They say, gbenɔ yi mi wa (death is wicked), so ke i na amane tsoɔ i ko wo he la (if I had seen ‘death tree,’ I would have set fire to it). Similar concepts about death can be found in some NT communities. An example was the Johannine community confronted with the problem of justifying death in the community of eternal life (11:37) and how the death of believers is to be understood and faced in this life. If Jesus is truly present, ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how selected characters (Jojo Badu, Marjorie, Norah and Dwayne) in Benjamin Kwakye‘s The Other Crucifix (2010) use the clause as an interactive unit to establish and maintain interpersonal relations. The Mood system and its grammatical categories of Modality, Subject, Polarity, Tense and Vocatives of Halliday‘s Interpersonal Metafunction of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFL) were analyzed for interpersonalness. It also looked at what these categories of...
ABSTRACT Paul in Eph. 4:1-16 exhorts the believers to maintain the unity that has been initiated by the Holy Spirit through the redemptive and reconciliatory work of Christ. He identifies the essence of the unity to be rooted in the existence of a sevenfold uniform creedal ele-ments shared by the believers. Each believer has received a gift according to the measure of Christ’s grace. Christ has given apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers as leadership gifts to the church, wi...
ABSTRACT This research looked to decide the degree of utilization of technology and its influence on performance and organizational strategy at Winmat Publishers Limited which is an educational publishing institution. In achieving a descriptive survey, the objectives of the study were utilized. Again, ―the collection of primary data was done through the use of questionnaire‖. The study‘s targeted population contained the whole Winmat Publishers Limited Head office staff which is 108 per...
ABSTRACT Regalia are invaluable sources of information on the early history and social organization of ethnic groups in Ghana. They do not only show the majesty and wealth of chiefs but also are an indication of societal attitude throughout history. Regalia reflect the long history of groups and their relations with others. The study highlighted the settlement history of Akwamu, their relations with the Ga and Danes on the Accra coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the personali...
ABSTRACT Rural urban migration has been a phenomenon that has gained world attention due to its associated challenges. This study sought to find out the effects of rural urban migration on the sociodemographic characteristics of migrants living in Abossey Okai Zongo. Using a mixed method approach, both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied in the administration of 100 semi-structured questionnaires. The questionnaires were administered using a multi-staged approach. Respondents ge...
ABSTRACT Knowledge production is pivotal to the growth and development of people. As society has evolved so have knowledge production systems. Traditionally, ethnic communities have preserved and transmitted knowledge generated from their beliefs, institutions and customs from one generation to another. With the introduction of Western systems, such communities have also participated in the formalized knowledge system preserved and transmitted through formal institutions of learning such as ...
ABSTRACT This study ties access to rural electrification (RE) services with productivity and rural industrialization in Ghana. The benefit of grid-electricity is pivotal to rural economic growth. The increasing recognition of RE as a source of sustainable energy for agro processing and MSE activities translates into productive use beyond lighting. This variance is embedded in the fact that RE access is woefully inadequate for productive activities among MSEs and agro-processing industries in...
ABSTRACT Social media has become extremely popular in Ghana and various organisations of all sizes are experimenting with social media advertising. Despite this increasing usage there is currently limited research on how social media is used in specific Ghanaian industries. This study was conducted to ascertain why and how Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) uses social media for advertising. The study focused on specific Guinness Ghana Limited brands –Guinness and Malta Guinness. The s...