Rural Sociology a West African Reader No. 1: Kinship, Marriage and the Family

Politics & Social Sciences

Brown, C. K

Thakur, A. P.

Social Sciences

Ghana Univ Pr

Herbs of Ghana

Science & Math

Dokosi, O. B.

Biological Sciences

Many of the books in this section are concerned with the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their role in development. Of particular interest in this regard is Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. Another new title, Changing Lenses, looks at media policies and media monitoring, while Women's Voices on Fire documents how that radio service has provided a space for women's voices.Through a study of communication patterns among some Ghanaian villagers, this book provides concrete examples of the systems used by indigenous societies. It proposes a framework for developing participatory models of communication based on village cultural experiences to facilitate learning and community development. Bibliography.

Communication, Education and Development: Exploring an African Cultural Setting (Agriculture in Uganda)

ANSU-KYEREMEH, KWASI

Cocoa Development in West Africa: The Early Period With Particular Reference to Ghana

History

Acquaah, Benjamin

Africa

A series of lectures on the international and African perspective on Gender and development.

Gender and Development: 1993 Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures (Fountain Uce Study-Books)

Business & Money

Nikoi, Gloria

Economics

There are differences in the meaning of motherhood from one society to another, and radical variations in ideas about conception, birth, child rearing and relationships between parents and children. In Ghanaian societies, traditionally, motherhood and a woman's place and status are intricately bound. There is a strong pro-natalist tendency, mothers of many children are highly regarded, whilst infertile women are stigmatised. Equally, having a child in the wrong circumstances adversely affects a woman's social profile. The book discusses the various social aspects of motherhood and argues that a higher regard for individual religious and cultural convictions and choices would improve our understanding of what having children means to women.

Motherhood: An Experience in the Ghanaian Context

Tettey, Elizabeth R.

This book provides an overview of life in rural Ghana, of the impact of social and economic change on rural communities, and of the increasing wealth-gap between the urban and the rural areas. It further documents a case study, which ran over a period of twenty-eight years, and examines the history and origins of the people of Konkonuru, a village in the Akwapim Hills. It shows this village has had many contacts with the outside world but also remains self-contained in many respects. It considers the impact of early missionaries on the community's traditional institutions; the impact of migration, and modernisation; the changing nature of traditional values, and how to best develop agricultural systems and infrastructure. The author was formerly a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics, and University of Ghana.

Konkonuru: Life in a West African Village

Hardiman, Margaret G. W.

The Bead is Constant [paperback] Wilson, Alexandra [Dec 29, 2003]

The Bead is Constant

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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