May 2011

Christianity as an Ideological Instrument: A postcolonial reading of Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God

  This paper attempts to reveal how the Christian religion was used in colonizing African peoples according to Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God. Colonists regularly use subtle and indirect ways to colonize people before and after independence; one of these methods was through ideology. The paper depicts the ways in which Christianity as an ideological instrument was used as a tool for colonization....

Author(s):   Seyed Mohammad Marandi and Reyhaneh Sadat Shadpour        

May 2011

Gold mining and the socio-economic development of Obuasi in Adanse

  This article seeks to project the important role played by gold mining in economic development of modern areas of Obuasi and Adanse in Ghana. It challenges those scholars who doubt the transformative, developmental and poverty alleviation roles of the mining industry in Ghana. The study is based on archival and oral research, and it arguments are articulated in a historical narrative fashion that link the...

Author(s):   Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah