Download or read book Akwasidae and Odwira Festivals written by Emmanuel Kingsley Braffi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Odwira and the Gospel written by Frank Kwesi Adams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Odwira festival is the key to the understanding of Asante religious and political life in Ghana. The book explores the nature of the Odwira festival longitudinally--in pre-colonial, colonial and post-independence Ghana--and examines the Odwira ideology and its implications for understanding the Asante self-identity. The book also discusses how some elements of faith portrayed in the Odwira festival could provide a framework for Christianity to engage with Asante culture at a greater depth. Theological themes in Asante belief that have emerged from this study include the theology of sacrament, ecclesiology, eschatology, Christology and a complex concept of time. The author argues that Asante cultural identity lies at the heart of the process by which the Asante Christian faith is carried forward.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of African Culture written by Eric O. Ayisi and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Akwasidae Ke see written by Barfuo Akwasi Abayie Boaten and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Festivals in Ghana written by Kwaku Amoako-Attah Fosu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Odwira Festival in Asante in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Restoration of Asanteman written by J. Agyeman-Duah and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Traditional Oral Literature and Visual cultures as Pedagogical Tools in Diverse Classroom Contexts written by Lewis Asimeng-Boahene and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the second in the series, is a distinct exploration of how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs and invaluable pedagogical tools in the delivery of content in the classrooms of the present global village, most of whom contain diverse student populations from varying backgrounds. The content of the book is thus designed to help expand educators’ repertoire of understanding beyond the hitherto “conventional wisdom”, most of which are either outdated or are colonial impositions on former colonial entities. Our motivation for pulling together this anthology was due to the fact scholars, educators and educational policy makers have hitherto paid little attention to the epistemological and pedagogical value of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge systems (TIKS). Our objective has been largely achieved by this anthology in the sense that the research perspectives of the contributors to this effort have enhanced the hitherto limited exposure and knowledge about traditional oral literature and visual cultures in Africa. The torch that has been lighted from this endeavor heightens the epistemological and pedagogical implications of TIKS. In launching this book, we are extending a clarion call to researchers and disciples of Indigenous Knowledge systems in Africa and elsewhere to seize this opportunity and interest generated by this endeavor to undertake more studies in this area. Our current efforts were focused mainly on Africa TIKS systems, but we strongly believe that there are similar and equally powerful and important TIKS systems in other parts of the world, Asia, the Far East, Central and Southern America as well as the Caribbean that are longing for exploration and exposition. It is therefore our fervent hope that exploration and dissemination of knowledge in this field will continue with the flame lighted from this endeavor. We believe that these efforts will greatly enhance awareness an otherwise neglected and almost forgotten, but important aspects of knowledge creation and dissemination, especially about traditional and hitherto unwritten histories and knowledge systems around the world. These undertakings will help to broaden the conceptualization of what constitutes global knowledge within the current reality of globalization.
Download or read book Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana written by Richard Rathbone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, ritual murder was committed in a large African kingdom in the south of Ghana, then a colony of Great Britain. Palace officials and close kin of a recently deceased king had reputedly killed one of his chiefs in order to smooth the king's passage into the afterlife. This riveting study tells the story of the murder, the trials and appeals of those accused of the crime, and the effect of the case on politics in Ghana and Great Britain. In recounting this fascinating case, the book also provides important insights into law and politics in the colonial Gold Coast, the clash between traditional and modern values, and the nature of African monarchy in the colonial period. Drawing on newly available oral and written evidence from Ghana and Britain, Richard Rathbone builds a detailed picture of the leading characters in the case, as well as of the thirty-year rule of Nana Ofori Atta, the king. He shows how the death of the king destroyed the economic, social, and moral fabric of the kingdom, and how this destruction was further exacerbated by legal proceedings resulting from the murder. The case set the indigenous royal family against the colonial government, challenging the authority of each. Close kinsmen of the accused, hitherto in the vanguard of moderate nationalism, were radicalized by their extended confrontation with the colonial justice system. It was their political initiatives that accelerated the formation of the Gold Coast's first national political party in the late 1940s, and which led in turn to the struggle for self-government and to the achievement of Ghanian independence in 1957.
Download or read book Traditional Festivals 2 volumes written by Christian Roy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.
Download or read book Hindu Gods in West Africa written by Albert Wuaku and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hindu Gods in West Africa, Wuaku offers an account of the histories, beliefs and practices of the Hindu Monastery of Africa and the Radha Govinda Temple, two Hindu Temples in Ghana. Using historical material and data from his field work in southern Ghana, Wuaku shows how these two Hindu Temples build their traditions on popular Ghanaian religious notions about the powerful magicality of India's Hindu gods. He explores how Ghanaian soldiers who served in the colonial armies in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma during World War II, Bollywood films, and local magicians, have contributed to the production and the spreading of these cultural ideas. He argues that while Ghanaian worshippers appropriated and deployed the alien Hindu religious world through their own cultural ideas, as they engage Hindu beliefs and rituals in negotiating challenges their own worldviews would change considerably.
Download or read book Debates written by Gold Coast. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Styles and Spiritual Traits of Catholic Priests written by Rev. Fr. Francis Aning Amoah, . Industrial PhD and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aning Amoah's Leadership Styles and Spiritual Traits of Catholic Priests explore the relationship between leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) and spiritual traits (self-directedness (SD), cooperativeness (CO), and self-transcendence (ST). The quantitative correlational study sampled 93 catholic priests from Ghana in active ministry. The results showed a statistically significant correlation between transformational leadership and spiritual traits, a nonstatistical correlation between transactional leadership and spiritual trait variables, a negative statistically significant correlation between laissez-faire leadership style with self-directedness and cooperativeness, and a positive statistically significant correlation between laissez-faire leadership style and self-transcendence. Thus, the more catholic priests provide guidance, counseling, teaching, and shepherding among congregation as a transformational leader, the more likely they will be reliable, mature, effective, helpful, compassionate, and spiritual. Contrary, the more catholic priests become laissez-faire leader, the more likely they will be weak, blaming, ineffective, emotionally unstable, lacking internal organizational principles (low SD), self-absorbed, intolerant, critical, revengeful and self-regarding (low CO), and absorbed in what they do, spiritual and capable of adapting to situation of pain and suffering (high ST).
Download or read book Gold Coast Akan Laws and Customs written by Joseph Boakye Danquah and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chief Ghana s Rich Asset Heritage and Alternative Source of Community Development written by Michael Marnu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, the Chief addresses an alternative source of authority that can be harnessed to help with community development. It is one of the nation's rich assets and heritage. He is the traditional ruler called the Chief or ‘Nana’. He has been in the organization of communal labour, promotion of socio-economic development and involved in maintaining peace and order and development of his area since pre-colonial times. The Chieftaincy institution is recognized and accorded its autonomy in the Constitution of Ghana. The government may avoid gross infrastructural deficits in the local communities if he works in collaboration with the Chiefs. I believe also that every society has resources to better the lives of its people. The book is written around the background of the Akan Chieftaincy system, its legal position, the chief’s profile – criteria of his selection; his eleven golden responsibilities to influence the community; the community assets, twelve steps of ways to start community projects and ends up with a controversy among the Christendom, ‘Should a Christian become a Chief?’ The masterpiece is a ‘wake up cry’ to inform, educate, instruct, celebrate, and inspire the Chief and his Traditional Council of what he urgently needs to deal with. The Chieftaincy system is an ancient institution and is still important and relevant. It is inappropriate to be seen as symbolic and ceremonial. It is time for the Chief to take stock of the power and authority vested in him and the influence he has. He need not be like a queen waiting on a king but to be like a queen busy with her kingdom until her king arrives. Why live when you can rule.
Download or read book Religion and Chieftaincy in Ghana written by Louise Müller and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research ... and applying formidable expertise in African history, philosophy, historical anthropology and religious studies [this is] a superb analysis of the history and transformation of the roles of chieftaincy in the religious institutions, rituals and ideas among the Asante.
Download or read book Black African Traditional Religions and Philosophy written by Patrick E. Ofori and published by Nendeln : Kraus-Thomson. This book was released on 1975 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ASHANTI CONCOCTIONS written by Dr. Ope Banwo and published by Dr Ope Banwo. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legendary All-Natural Recipes Of The Ashanti People Of West Africa. The Ashanti people are a subgroup of the Akan ethnic group of West Africa, located mainly in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The Ashanti people have a rich history and culture dating back to the 17th century. They have a rich oral history and have been an important part of Ghanaian culture for centuries. The Ashanti are a matrilineal society, meaning that inheritance and family lineage is traced through the mother's line. This has been an important part of their identity and has helped to create a strong bond among their communities. The Ashanti are known for their vibrant and colorful traditional clothing which includes vivid colors, intricate designs and bold patterns. They are also known for their traditional music which is often accompanied by drumming and dancing. Ashanti cuisine is a reflection of their culture and history. It is characterized by the use of starchy staples such as cassava, plantain, yam and maize. Common dishes include fufu, a mashed starchy food usually served with a stew or sauce, and kenkey, a maize-based dough that is steamed and served with a soup or stew. Other popular dishes include jollof rice, a tomato-based rice dish, and banku, a maize and cassava dough. The Ashanti are also known for their love of festivals and celebrations. These events are often held in honor of important cultural and religious figures or to celebrate important events in their history. Examples of traditional festivals include the Akwasidae, which is an annual festival of music, dance and drumming, and the Odwira Festival which celebrates the end of the harvest season. The Ashanti are also known for their rich art and craft traditions. Common crafts include pottery, beadwork, weaving and basketry. They are also known for their traditional architectural styles, often featuring intricate decorative motifs. The Ashanti people have a rich history and culture that has had a lasting impact on Ghanaian society. Their vibrant traditions, art, music and cuisine are a reflection of their deep connection to the land and their commitment to preserving their culture and identity.
