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Author : Narh Omaboe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789988077839
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (778 download)
Download or read book History of West Africa and the Ga (Osu) People written by Narh Omaboe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David K. Henderson-Quartey
Publisher : D.K. Henderson-Quartey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ga of Ghana written by David K. Henderson-Quartey and published by D.K. Henderson-Quartey. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190874988
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors addressing these questions, using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region rather than tradition, to emphasized the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience, that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning, experience"--
Author : Narh Omaboe
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645447537
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Why Should I Wait written by Narh Omaboe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author attended university in Switzerland. When he arrived in Geneva, he met students from many countries: Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Liberia, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Mali, Nigeria, etc. He was the only student at the time who was born and raised in Accra when the Gold Coast gained its independence so his friends gave him the nickname Accra Man, hence the title of the book. The book Accra Man is an extraordinary account of a determined man who went through a lot of suffering to reach and surpass his goal. Most people would have given up when his trusted friends abandoned him in Paris, France, or when he finally graduated and became a doctor. Instead he got the courage to press on to get postgraduate qualifications in France, Switzerland, the United States of America, and Canada—eleven in all. It is a landmark work of social and cultural history. He avoids the brownnosers, those who praise you in your presence but speak ill of you behind your back. Omaboe admits that giving in to despair would have been easy. Instead he chose a personal voyage of discovery in an effort to get to the bottom of things. It requires more than courage and confidence in oneself to politely turn down an offer to join the teaching staff of a world-class medical school to enter the darkness of the unknown and succeed. He believes that anyone who puts himself in his world and thinks life is easy has never really lived.
Author : Geoffrey Akuamoa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291357467
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (913 download)
Download or read book KWAME, THE LAST SLAVE FROM WEST AFRICA written by Geoffrey Akuamoa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the slave trade in West Africa especialy Ghana, and how it affected the daily lives of Ghanaians today.
Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147805932X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Psychiatric Contours written by Nancy Rose Hunt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from miscategorization. A key Foucauldian word, vivacity, illuminates how madness aligns with pathology, creativity, turbulence, and psychopolitics. The archives, patient-authored or not, speak to furies and fantasies inside asylums, colonial institutions, decolonizing missions, and slave ships. The frayed edges of politicized deliria open up the senses and optics of psychiatry’s history in Africa far beyond clinical spaces and classification. The volume also proposes fresh concepts, notably the vernacular, to suggest how to work with emic clues in a granular fashion and telescope the psychiatric within histories of madness. With chapters stretching across much of ex-British and ex-French colonial Africa, Psychiatric Contours attends to the words, autobiographies, and hallucinations of the stigmatized and afflicted as well as of the powerful. Expatriate psychiatrists with cameras, prying authorities, fearful missionaries, and colonial anthropologists enter these readings beside patients, asylums, and boarding schools via research on possession “hysteria” and schizophrenia. In brief, this book demonstrates novel ways of writing not only medical history but all subaltern and global histories. Contributors. Hubertus Büschel, Raphaël Gallien, Matthew M. Heaton, Richard Hölzl, Nancy Rose Hunt, Richard C. Keller, Sloan Mahone, Nana Osei Quarshie, Jonathan Sadowsky, Romain Tiquet
Author : Paul Jenkins
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN 13 : 9783905141702
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Recovery of the West African Past written by Paul Jenkins and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betr. den für die Basler Mission tätigen Euro-Afrikaner Carl Christian Reindorf und die Geschichte der Basler Mission an der Goldküste im 19. Jahrhundert.
Author : John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319392824
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Shadows of Empire in West Africa written by John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and power dynamics in the region also changed. Focusing on the fortifications of Ghana, the authors discuss how these structures may be interpreted as connecting Ghanaian and West African histories to a multitude of global histories. They also enable greater understanding of the fortifications’ contemporary use as heritage sites, where the Afro-European experience is narrated through guided tours and museums.
Author : Kwabena Ankoma
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346183076
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Heritage of Osu, Ghana. Past and Present written by Kwabena Ankoma and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject History - Africa, University of Ghana, Legon, language: English, abstract: The town of Osu, being a Danish colonial town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, has a rich cultural heritage. The heritage of Osu can be traced from its contact with the Danes which led to the adoption of the name, Danish Osu or Danish Accra. Their heritage has however grown from being a colonial town into a contemporary urban settlement which is noted as one of the most vibrant places in Accra with its night life and massive inflow of tourists. This apparent rich history of Osu has called for the study into the heritage of Osu, as heritage is believed to be all aspects of culture that are part of a society. The study sought to establish among others what tangible sites have existed in the past and what have propelled their existence presently. Particular reference was made to the Christianborg Castle, Richter Fort, Nii-Okantey Shikatse We, Osu Salem School and Frederichs Minde which were all developed in the Danish era. The study also covered other heritage sites such as the Danquah Circle in Osu, the Osu Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu Cemetery and the State House. The study furthermore brought into light the distinction of the economics, governance system and education in Osu in terms of how these features were in the past and how they are presently. At the end of the study, findings (primary and secondary sources) established that the heritage of Osu have been propelled by culture contact and globalization and with the implementation of sustainable development the heritage of Osu will be properly protected for an increasing tourists’ consumption. Recommendations were made for further research into the intangible heritage of Osu as well as establish the divergent cultural traits between those living around the "Oxford Street" and those in the traditional quarters.
Author : Kevin Shillington
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1579582451
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African History written by Kevin Shillington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more than one thousand entries covering all aspects of African history, civilization, and culture.
Author : Pernille Ipsen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291972
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Daughters of the Trade written by Pernille Ipsen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women who had married Danish merchants and traders. Their marriage would have been familiar to Gold Coast traders going back nearly 150 years. In Daughters of the Trade, Pernille Ipsen follows five generations of marriages between African women and Danish men, revealing how interracial marriage created a Euro-African hybrid culture specifically adapted to the Atlantic slave trade. Although interracial marriage was prohibited in European colonies throughout the Atlantic world, in Gold Coast slave-trading towns it became a recognized and respected custom. Cassare, or "keeping house," gave European men the support of African women and their kin, which was essential for their survival and success, while African families made alliances with European traders and secured the legitimacy of their offspring by making the unions official. For many years, Euro-African families lived in close proximity to the violence of the slave trade. Sheltered by their Danish names and connections, they grew wealthy and influential. But their powerful position on the Gold Coast did not extend to the broader Atlantic world, where the link between blackness and slavery grew stronger, and where Euro-African descent did not guarantee privilege. By the time Severine Brock married Edward Carstensen, their world had changed. Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial marriage played in the coastal slave trade, the production of racial difference, and the increasing stratification of the early modern Atlantic world.
Author : J. F. A. Ajayi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 download)
Download or read book History of West Africa written by J. F. A. Ajayi and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book West Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madeline Manoukian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315297841
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Akan and Ga-Adangme Peoples written by Madeline Manoukian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : Michael Crowder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book History of West Africa written by Michael Crowder and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Nii-Adziri Wellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894718141
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Stones Tell Stories at Osu written by H. Nii-Adziri Wellington and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380175
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of multiple original comprehensive scholarship about and approaches to the history of the fortresses of Ghana and Benin. It suggests an alternative approach and view on them.
