ABSTRACT This study examines the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan and the Fight against Illicit Drug Trafficking in Ghana. It throws light on perceived challenges associated with controlling the drug situation in the country. Additionally, it analyses policy interventions, implemented to deal with drug trafficking and then finally, projects some achievements of the ECOWAS Regional Action Plan in Ghana and suggests measures for improvement. Using the case of security personnel from Narcotics Contro...
ABSTRACT The objectives of the study were to examine causes of child trafficking, identify current strategies and interventions being used to fight child trafficking and what interventions and strategies stakeholders recommend to address child trafficking. Eight key informant interviewers and discussants were purposively sampled. Qualitative data were obtained using one on one interviews and focus group discussion that run between 40 and 170 minutes. The interviews were audio taped, transcrib...
ABSTRACT According to earlier scholars including Nketia (1965) and Opoku (1964), dance education and practice in Ghana emerged as an offshoot of a cultural educational programme that was geared towards inculcating strong sense of discipline and professionalism amongst Ghanaians, to induce collective co-existence and national growth after the attainment of self-rule in 1957. Furthermore, Adinku (1994) recalls Nkrumah’s employment of indigenous dance and arts as a unifying tool amongst citiz...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of oil discovery on inmigration and the consequent infrastructural challenges in the SekondiTakoradi Metropolis. The targeted and accessible population for the study included the residents, workers and key informants in Sekondi-Takoradi and the officials of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA). Through convenient sampling method forty (40) residents and workers in the area, representing 80% of the sample and ten (10) STM...
J B B S I R A C I . Reports on the number of isolates and yeast species obtained from palmwine samples have differed very widely. One factor that probably accounts for this is the method of phenotypic discontinuity which has exclusively been employed in palmwine yeast speciation. The phenotypic features used mainly for this kind of speciation have been shown to be unstable. Consequently it was decided to employ the more consistent; and reliable method of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphi...
ABSTRACT This study is centered on the difficulties students of Nungua Senior High School, Accra, encounter in the use of the personal pronoun «en». The analysis of the data collected through questionnaires, interviews and test items with respect to students performance is confined within the context of its partitive and quantitative use as well as the variety of functions it performs within sentences. In the light of the data analysed, the study ident ified that most students studying Fren...
ABSTRACT This study content analyzed the January 2016 to January 2017 articles relating to the 2016 general elections in Ghana that appeared on two news portals - myjoyonline.com and graphic.com.gh. The objectives of the study were to identify the dominant frames that were used by the two online portals in covering the elections as well as the level of prominence attached to the election coverage. It also sought to find out the level of bias in their coverage. A quantitative content analysis...
ABSTRACT This study is a quantitative content analysis of media coverage of female parliamentary candidates by the Daily Graphic, the Daily Guide and The Enquirer in the 2012 general elections in Ghana. The principal goal of the study was to determine the nature and extent of coverage afforded the female candidates in comparison to the male candidates and to establish whether gender played a role in coverage by the three newspapers. The research specificallysought to find out whether the cove...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates “serial verb constructions” in Gurene, a Gur language spoken in the nortern part of Ghana. It examines the defining properties of SVCs, the semantic and the syntactic classification of SVCs in Gurene, using the prototype theory framework. The fundamental principles of the theory which include “prototypicality,” “resemblance” or “similarity to the prototype,” “gradation” and “cognitive economy” are applied in classifying the various typ...
ABSTRACT Women in John’s Gospel played important roles in the ministry of Jesus. They contributed to theologizing and shaping the readers’ understanding of Jesus’ identity. Against this background, the research analysed how the narrator guided his readers to discover Jesus’ identity through the words and the actions of four female characters, placed by the author in key moments of his narrative: Mary the Mother of Jesus (2:1- 11); the anonymous Samaritan woman (4:4-42); Martha (11:17-...
Abstract The study sought to discover the major causes of fall in standard of Arabic teaching in Kumasi, and to propose effective measures for improving the quality of Arabic language teaching in Islamic secondary schools in Ghana at large. This necessitated a thorough discussion on the development of Arabic studies in Kumasi, as well as a brief biography of selected Muslim scholars, and types of Islamic secondary schools, including their overall objectives and curricula. The study employed a...
ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the occurrence of code switching between Agona and English among members of the St. James Anglican Church and the Holy Ghost International Church in the Agona District of the Central Region in Ghana to determine the patterns of occurrence in conversational turns. It also describes the social roles that the code mixed languages perform in context. The study concentrates on how meaning is derived from the structure of conversation among bilingual Agonas. The ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of risk factors on shareholder value (proxied by shareholder value ratio, which is computed as EVA divided by capital invested) in Ghanaian banks. To account for the persistence of shareholder value, we used the System Generalised Method of Moments technique for a panel of 25 Ghanaian banks that covers the period 2007-2013. Results indicate that the three risk factors that must be on the top of the priority list of banks in Ghana in...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the phenomenon of spiritually-induced affliction among the Ga people of Ghana. The Gas, just as most African cultures, believe that the world is divided into the causal realms of the physical and the spiritual. Based on this belief, they postulate that the cause of human affliction does not only originate from the physical realm, but also from the spiritual sphere. Events attributed to affliction emanating from the spiritual world are particular mishaps which ...
ABSTRACT Dance is an important aspect of the culture of the Ghanaian (African). Dance embodies and articulates the philosophies of the culture, the origin, and serves as a unique symbol of identity. Our increasing interaction with various world cultures has undermined certain aspects of our dance heritage. We incorporate ideas which threaten our indigenous philosophies and symbols of our identities to the detriment of our uniqueness as Ghanaians or Africans. Unfortunately, dance is one aspect...