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The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance

From Palace to Academy

By: Emmanuel Cudjoe

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The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance

From Palace to Academy

By: Emmanuel Cudjoe

The Kete dance form, once exclusive to royal courts, carries intricate movements, symbolic gestures, and rhythms that mirror Ghanaian history and values. It embodies storytelling, often depicting tales of bravery, unity, or significant historical events. These dances were traditionally reserved for specific occasions within the royal setting, symbolizing prestige, honor, and tradition. With the passage of time, the transmission of Kete royal dance has transcended its original palace context, finding its way into academic domains. Universities and cultural institutions now extend the legacies of this dance form and even act as custodians of this art form, where scholars, dancers, and enthusiasts collaborate to study, preserve, and teach Kete dance. Through meticulous documentation, research, and practice, the academy endeavors to honor the Kete dance while making it accessible to a broader audience. This transmission from palace to academy serves as a testament to the resilience and adaptability of cultural traditions. It ensures the continuity of Ghanaian heritage and allows future generations, both within and beyond Ghana, to appreciate and learn from this profound dance form from an Afrocentric perspective.

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Anthem Press

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1839991836

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

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0195382072

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Independent Africa

The First Generation of Nation Builders

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

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Independent Africa

The First Generation of Nation Builders

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Drawing on the political careers of four heads of states: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Sâekou Tourâe of Guinea, Lâeopold Sâedar Senghor, and Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania, Independent Africa engages four major themes: what does it mean to construct an African nation-state and what should an African nation-state look like; how does one grow a tropical economy emerging from European colonialism; how to explore an indigenous model of economic development, a "third way," in the context of a Cold War that had divided the world into two camps; and how to leverage internal resources and external opportunities to diversify agricultural economics and industrialize. Combining aspects of history, economics, and political science, Independent Africa examines the important connections between the first generation of African leaders, and the shared ideas that informed their endeavors at nation-building and worldmaking"--

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Indiana University Press

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0253066662

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9780253066664

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the Contemporary Humanist

By: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi,Rev. Fr. John Berinyuy

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the Contemporary Humanist

By: Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi,Rev. Fr. John Berinyuy

This book is a theological reflection of Sheen’s contribution to humanity and society. It analyzes the modern person from the Catholic doctrinal perspective, explores Fulton Sheen’s perception of the contemporary individual, and demonstrates that global economic, religious, and political crises cannot be resolved by focusing only on the mundane. It further underscores some contemporary anthropological challenges and proposes a philosophy and theology of life that can enable contemporary humans to know themselves better and make life worth living. The authors argue that advancements in science and technology have failed to prolong happiness; people are still frustrated, disillusioned, cynical, bored, and suicidal. This book enters the landscape of Sheen’s controversial pause before he was sanctified and provides a lengthy, liturgical extrapolation of Sheen’s Christian anthropology, wrestling with other thinkers and general concerns surrounding human angst in modern society.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527517098

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9781527517097

Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa

Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict

By: Emmanuel Mbah

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Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa

Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict

By: Emmanuel Mbah

Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa’s growing population, have created recurrent identity crises throughout Africa. The chapters discuss the recurrent environmental issues, the problems of contested ownership of land, autochthonism as well as the blending of different cultures in a restricted area. Also highlighted is a neglected aspect of the history of Fulani migrations in West Africa - the colonial extension of the Fulani into the Southern Cameroons.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315294168

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9781315294162

Governance and Democracy in Africa

Regional and Continental Perspectives

By: James S. Guseh,Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor

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Governance and Democracy in Africa

Regional and Continental Perspectives

By: James S. Guseh,Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor

This book looks at the fundamental issue of governance in Africa. After half a century of experimenting with democratic institutions, African countries are still ambivalent about the complete or absolute adoption of this form of governance. Africa lost tremendous human and natural resources in the struggle for political and economic independence. What form of governance African leaders adopt will determine how worthwhile this sacrifice has been to the African people. This issue is the major challenge facing Africa, and addressing it is of high urgency. Employing a political economy framework, this book provides some insights into to dealing with this complex issue of democratic governance in Africa.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498533000

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9781498533003

In Living Color

An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition

By: Emmanuel Y Lartey

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In Living Color

An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling Second Edition

By: Emmanuel Y Lartey

The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and reexamined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower them. He provides a clear and concise history of pastoral care and considers its relationship to different models of counseling and spirituality. This new edition has been updated to reflect postmodern and postcolonial studies and provides illustrations of how an intercultural approach can work in practice. Theological teachers and students will welcome its return as an indispensable introduction to the field of pastoral care. In Living Color is an essential source of inspiration to leaders from any religious stream who wish to provide pastoral care in a way that reflects their community's cultural diversity. This book is also a useful resource for practitioners in a wider range of caring contexts who work in multicultural environments.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846423988

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9781846423987

Scorched Earth

Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

By: Emmanuel Kreike

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Scorched Earth

Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

By: Emmanuel Kreike

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment—"environcide"—constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.

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544

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Princeton University Press

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0691200122

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9780691200125

Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations

By: Emmanuel Wekem Kotia

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Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations

By: Emmanuel Wekem Kotia

Africa Nations have contributed to peace operations in conflict zones across the world since the deployment of the United Nations Operations in the Congo in 1960. This has placed Africa as a major stakeholder in the maintenance of peace and security. For over fifty years Ghana has earned the international reputation as one of the largest and consistent Troop Contributing Country in United Nations mandated peace operations. While Ghana has long been an active contributor to peace operations, there are few or no comparative studies that systematically analyze the actual roles played by troops in many of the different conflict context where they have served. This book therefore, focuses on a comparison of two peace operations undertaken by the forces of an African Nation in two different missions in Lebanon and Liberia.

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260

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Lexington Books

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0739196502

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9780739196502

If I Were President

A Road Map for Those Who Would Be Ghana's Chief Executive

By: Emmanuel Puplampu

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If I Were President

A Road Map for Those Who Would Be Ghana's Chief Executive

By: Emmanuel Puplampu

Years of mismanagement, corruption, and unwarranted military interventions in national affairs have left the country in an abysmal pit; efforts to move forward seem so little compared to the journey ahead. The enormity of the problem leaves many presidents little choice but to tinker around the edges of the national economic, political, and social issues. I believe it is time for bold programs to give the much needed jolt to our economy just as the Akosombo dam and Tema harbour did to our economy in the 1960s. The way to extricate ourselves from this morass is to take bold action. This book proposes a way out of this quagmire.

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AuthorHouse

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1504954130

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9781504954136

Marketing in Developing Countries

Nigerian Advertising in a Global and Technological Economy

By: Emmanuel C. Alozie

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Marketing in Developing Countries

Nigerian Advertising in a Global and Technological Economy

By: Emmanuel C. Alozie

No prior studies have examined the role, relationship, and impact of advertising and information technologies on African societies. Critically exploring the dominant cultural values and symbols conveyed in Nigerian mass media advertising, and the impact of this advertising on the socioeconomic development of Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa, this volume examines the many facets of the African marketplace. Marketing in Developing Countries: Nigerian Advertising in a Global and Technological Economy will aid current and potential investors and businesses in interpreting the cultural, socioeconomic, and technological evolution underway in this emerging economy, assist in their understanding of the challenges as well as opportunities they may encounter in this region, and encourage the creation of culturally sensitive advertising messages – that may ultimately support rather than distort Nigeria’s economic development.

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255

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Routledge

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1135696934

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9781135696931

Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake

By: Emmanuel Ngwang,Kenneth Usongo

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Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake

By: Emmanuel Ngwang,Kenneth Usongo

The book Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake, through a pluralist critical approach, interrogates Butake’s major creative works—Lake God, And Palm Wine Will Flow, The Survivors, Shoes and Four Men in Arms, Dance of the Vampires and The Rape of Michelle —mainly in terms of their political underpinnings and cultural signification. The intention is to place his drama within the socio-political matrix of Cameroon and demonstrate the topicality of the issues of governance, marginalization, and corruption in Cameroon or Africa that Butake consistently foregrounds in his creative works. The study opens with an overview of the historical and social milieu that feeds Butake’s imagination and the introduction is followed by an interview of the playwright in which he explains his mission as a writer. The next two chapters appraise the political symbolism of Butake’s plays and chapter five undertakes a comparison of the colonial legacy and the culture of corruption in Butake’s Lake God and The Rape ofMichelle. Women in Butake’s imaginative universe play a non-negligible role in change. They are portrayed as political and social activists in their challenge to autocratic rule. This is the leitmotif of chapter six, which highlights the contribution of women towards political change in Cameroon. In chapters seven and eight, the focus is on articulating the cultural signification of Butake’s plays in terms of political change. Concomitantly, these chapters also demonstrate Butake’s seamless incorporation of elements of oral literature in his drama, as he interpolates proverbs, divinations and other elements of orality in his work. Chapter nine of the book points out how Butake foregrounds the character traits of his protagonists against the backdrop of traditional Noni religion as well as Christianity. Thus, the bigotry and belligerence of both the Fon and Father Leo in Lake God, for example, are projected through a supernatural frame. The conclusion appraises the contemporaneity of Butake’s drama. His oeuvre continues to inspire so many people: from disenfranchised groups that see in his drama a path to reclaiming liberties and to critics who are challenged to hone their literary tools in the endeavor to situate his works within the dynamics of politics and culture in Africa.

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Lexington Books

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1498538118

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9781498538114

Cocoa Production and Processing Technology

By: Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

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Cocoa Production and Processing Technology

By: Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

This book presents detailed explanations of technologies for sustainable production of high-quality and safe cocoa beans for the global confectionary industry. It describes up-to-date technologies and approaches to modern cocoa production practices, global production and consumption trends as well as principles of cocoa processing and chocolate manufacture. It covers the origin, history and taxonomy of cocoa, and examines the fairtrade and organic cocoa industries. The chapters provide in-depth coverage of cocoa cultivation, harvesting and post-harvest treatments, genotypic variations, fermentation techniques, drying, storage and transportation.

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376

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CRC Press

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1040077153

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The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance

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Dictionary of African Biography

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Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the Contemporary Humanist

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Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa

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Governance and Democracy in Africa

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Scorched Earth

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Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations

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If I Were President

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Marketing in Developing Countries

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Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake

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