Learning Objective: To identify the image representations of the African in the diaspora outside Africa Meaning of Being Black Blackness conveys the African identity and the subjective body of stigma rooted in slavery and slave trade. To be treated as non-person In Palestine, for example, a black person’s life is not worth…
Interrelations Within the African Diaspora
(i) remittance In the last three decades of the 20th Century, political instability and economic decline in Africa induced substantial migrations within Africa, and between Africa and the Western countries, as people fled repressive civilian and military regimes as well as conditions of unemployment. The immigrants included elites and ordinary people. By the…
Religion in the African Diaspora
(a) Islam Origins “Lost Found Nation of Islam” – African American Nation of Islam (NOI) NOI emerged in American urban areas during the early 1930s, officially beginning with the establishment by W.D. Fard Muhammad in Paradise Valley, Detroit, Michigan. (Fanusie 65) NOI was informed by the need for Black political resistance…
THE CAUSES OF LANGUAGE SHIFT
Language shift is the process where a speech community in a contact situation (i.e. consisting of bilingual speakers) gradually stop using one of its two languages in favour of the other. Several reasons may account for the why people shift to speaking another language; First of all, parents who push their children to learn another…
10 REASONS WHY CHIEFS SHOULD NOT ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN PARTISAN POLITICS
Chieftaincy is one of the oldest institutions in Ghana. It is thus the finest representation of the indigenous systems of government. In pre-colonial times chiefs were the political, executive, judicial, military, cultural and spiritual leaders of their societies. In performance of their duties, chiefs were assisted by their elders and councilors. The authority of a…
HEALTH ISSUES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
INTRODUCTION We want to focus on some diseases which are peculiar to rural communities in Ghana. Through this lecture we aim to appreciate some of the socio-cultural and politico-economic factors that nurture these diseases. Some of the health problems of rural communities are those generally described as NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES (NTDs). They are so…
PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE LOCAL CONTEXT
AIM To show that: Medicines are more than mere technical fixes; As commodities, they are embedded in the political and social structure of the society; As consumables, they assist to make sense of our health problems; In the developing world, they constitute a public health problem. INTRODUCTION The invention/discovery of medicines is perhaps one…
GHANA’S HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM – HISTORY
All over the world, the way a country’s health care services are delivered is influenced among others by economic, historical, politico- legal, socio-cultural and epidemiological factors . As to be expected therefore, the health care delivery system of the US should be different from that of Ghana to the extent that these two countries have…
HIV/AIDS IN GHANA
AIM OF ARTICLE To provide you with general knowledge on HIV/AIDS; To provide you with insight into some of the difficulties in controlling the incidence and spread of the epidemic in Ghana/Africa. INTRODUCTION In human history, perhaps besides the Black Death (epizoonotics of rats -1348-1894), HIV is one pandemic that has brought unimaginable catastrophe…
THE ENCULTURATED BODY: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR.
AIM To appreciate the fact that although medical practitioners regard the human body as a biological entity, it is also the locus of social and cultural definitions and modifications; To appreciate how some cultures reconstruct the human body and the reasons for this; To understand the health implications of some of the social and cultural…