Chapter 16. Dagaaba ecological consciousness between humans and non-humans in the myth of the bagre / Dannabang Kuwabong. Chapter 2. Apologies in english in Ghana / Jemima Asabea Anderson -- Chapter 3. Popular music and women's citizenship: a look at Ghanaian song lyrics / Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Awo Mana Asiedu -- Chapter 4. Gender variation in the use of politeness on facebook / Beatrice Offeibea Awuku -- Chapter5. The friction between the individual and the social in selected works of two Ghanaian writers - Mohammed Naseehu Ali and Ayi Kwei Armah / Kofi Darkoh-Ankrah -- Chapter 6. Being and doing us; a community of practice study of the upper west students' union of The University of Education, Ghana / Elizabeth Orfson Offei -- Chapter 7. Metonymic reasoning in Ghanaian student Pidgin: a focus on noun-to-verb conversions / Kwaku Osei-Tutu and Micah Corum -- Chapter 8. 'A young woman's voice does not break: it grows firmer': a critical reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's After ceremonies: new and selected poems / Helen Yitah -- Chapter 9. Adjectives in Twi/English codeswitching / Millicent Akosua Quarcoo and Amma Abrafi Adjei -- Chapter 10. Trapped between the illusions of western feminism and Ghanaian cultural realities: Ama Ata Aidoo's changes: a love story / Sherean S. Hader -- Chapter 11. Transcending the trauma of a cyclonic past and a stampeded present: anyidoho's vision of re-membering Africa / P. Kwame Adika and Joseph Tettey -- Chapter 12. Ghana 'Pona' Yam: is it a potential product for geographical indication? / Gervase Kuuwaabong -- Chapter 13. Problems in urban planning regimes and their enforcement: the case of Wa Municipality in the upper west region of Ghana / Avogo Florence Abugtane -- Chapter 14. Lexical borrowing in Ghanaian student Pidgin (GSP) the case of Akan Loan words and Loan translations / Kwaku O. A. Osei-Tutu -- Chapter 15. A sense of the self, of place and of time: a view of Kofi Anyidoho's "The place we call home" from a systemic functional perspective / George Kodie Frimpong, Kingsley Ohene Adu Brempong and Beatrice Offeibea Awuku -- Chapter 16. Dagaaba ecological consciousness between humans and non-humans in the myth of the bagre / Dannabang Kuwabong.
Summary:
This volume showcases new research on popular academic topics in Ghana. Its wide range of focus across disciplines includes topics such as pidgin, performing apologies and politeness, music, the argument for adopting geographical indications (GI) policies for Ghana's unique agricultural products, and the poetics of names, among many others. It will appeal particularly to students pursuing degrees in Africana and Ghanaian studies.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.