June 2012

Expressing indigenous knowledge through dance

  In many cases, indigenous knowledge has been orally passed from one generation to another. It encompasses the wisdom, knowledge and teachings of traditions to communities based on their social, economic, religious and political beliefs. The knowledge of indigenous and local communities is often embedded in a cosmology. These cosmologies are inextricably bound to ancestors, festivals and ancestral lands. To...

Author(s):   Akas Nicholas Chielotam      

June 2012

The role of language in ethnic identity: The case of Akwamu in Ghana

  Researchers in several disciplines within the social sciences, for example anthropology, sociology, history, linguistics and the humanities in general have explored the relationship among language, culture and identity from different perspectives. The general picture in the literature is the recognition that these three phenomena are connected to and affect each other in intricate ways. In this paper, we...

Author(s):   Ofosu-Mensah, Ababio Emmanuel and Ansah, Gladys Nyarko