these investment rushes in Ghana, specifically, investments in commercial farming, large-scale mining, and offshore petroleum production. I argue that these investments have contributed immensely to increasing Ghana's “relative surplus population” by
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Land and ocean grabs and the relative surplus population in Ghana
Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno
A Social Negotiation of Hope
Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming through Football
Christian Ungruhe and James Esson
on various studies and long-term ethnographic fieldwork among footballers in urban southern Ghana between 2010 and 2016. Mainly, it entailed informal conversations, formal interviews (biographical and narrative) as well as participant observation of
The Long Homecoming
Ghanaian Migrant Business and Power in Veneto, Italy
Hans Lucht
Beraku and their different trajectories in life. Joseph and PK belong to a group of migrant workers from the small Guan village of Senya Beraku in Ghana's Central Region, who came to Italy about 10 years ago in a push that saw more than 25–50 Senya people
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 55–67 (13 total)
God's Delivery State
Taxes, Tithes, and a Rightful Return in Urban Ghana
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
media company, watching the last group stage match—Ghana vs. Portugal—in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ghana was about to lose 2–1. Contrary to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where Ghana nearly reached the semifinals, the first African team to do so, its
Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment
Training Health Workers for Community-Based Roles in Ghana
Harriet Boulding
This article examines the way in which community health officers in Ghana grapple with the project of integrating their mandate of social mobilization with the provision of clinical services. In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 84–98 (15 total)
Of Golden Anniversaries and Bicentennials
The Convergence of Memory, Tourism and National History in Ghana
Cheryl Finley
The year 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Ghana and the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. The Ghana Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Affairs is planning the Joseph Project, a roots tourism initiative, aimed at ‘welcoming home’ its African diaspora. The historic slave forts and castles on Ghana’s coast are important sites for diasporic roots tourists, who also maintain symbolic links to Ghana’s independence movement through the history of Pan-Africanism. The Joseph Project uniquely includes a programme of national healing and atonement for African complicity in the slave trade and aims to remap national memory through tourism, education and the establishment of new museums, monuments and rituals.
Ghana ThinkTank
Black Lives Matter Guerrilla Street Signs
Christopher Robbins, Maria del Carmen Montoya, and John Ewing
Ghana ThinkTank has been “Developing the First World” since 2006. We collect problems in the so-called developed world, and send them to think tanks we established in Cuba, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, El Salvador, and the U.S. prison system to
The Keys to the Economic Kingdom
State Intervention and the Overcoming of Dependency in Africa before the Crisis of the 1970s
Bill Freund
the two paradigmatic radical Anglophone countries, Ghana, which achieved independence in 1957 and Tanganyika, following in 1961 but soon after incorporating the island of Zanzibar and renaming itself Tanzania. Thereafter there will be briefer comments
Reclaiming Stewardship in Ghana: Religion and Climate Change
Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo and Joseph Awetori Yaro
The hydra-headed nature of climate change—affecting not just climate but all other domains of human life—requires not just technological fixes but cultural innovation. It is impossible to ignore a devoutly religious majority in Ghana, a nation where diverse religious communities' perspectives on climate change and their views on the way forward are crucial. This article aims to empirically explore how Christian, Islamic, and indigenous African religious leaders view the challenges of climate change and what countermeasures they propose. Interestingly, most our informants have indicated that the reasons for the current environmental crisis are, in equal degree, Ghana's past colonial experience and deviation from religious beliefs and practice, while the main obstacle to sustainable development is poverty. There was unanimity on the reclamation of religious values and principles that promote the idea of stewardship as a way forward toward a sustainable future. This, however, functions more as a faith claim and a religiously inspired normative postulate than a program of concrete action.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2013
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- Research Article
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- 282–300 (19 total)
Belief in Sasa: Its Implications for Flora and Fauna Conservation in Ghana
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
The rate of depletion of plants and animal species in Ghana has assumed an alarming dimension, and the government is finding it difficult to control the process. Several factors account for this. A major one is the neglect of the traditional ecological knowledge prevalent in the culture of Ghana. Sasa is the Akan word for the spirit believed to be found in some plants and animals. This paper examines the role of sasa in flora and fauna conservation in Ghana. Traditional Ghanaians have a strong belief that some plants and animals have special spirits, which when cut (as in the case with plants) or killed (animals) can bring serious harm to the person. Thus, such plants and animals are not eliminated. This paper argues that sasa as an Akan indigenous conservation tool can complement the modern means of nature conservation in Ghana.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2012
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- Research Article
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