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   African Culture Heritage - Ghanaian Culture, National Identity and Development
Ghanaian Culture, National Identity and Developmentpdf print preview send to friend

INTRODUCTION
Culture is Lifestyle as manifested by a particular people or society. So it is man-made, not genetically inherited. It is evolved for the purpose of living. It is socially taught and learned. It originates as human response to the local physical and biological environment. Cultural traditions look to the past for their mandate, authority and authenticity as cultural traits are regarded as society’s norms handed down the generations.
 
However, culture is dynamic and is often affected by local and external influences and stimuli.
 
Culture is expressed in intangible or non-material form, for instance in terms of languages, dialects, philosophical thought, cosmology, morals and ethics, religious beliefs and rituals oral traditions, folklore, festivals, political ideas, music and dance, social customs related to birth, puberty, marriage, family life, work, death etc. Culture is also manifested in tangible or material form, in terms of types of food procurement and preparation, diverse technology and crafts clothing, body decoration, visual art and symbols, secular and religious architecture, monetary medium of exchange, transport systems etc.
 
Available records show that Ghana has some three score ethnic groups each characterised by peculiar cultural values and traditions that give Identity to the ethnic group
Identity is defined as “a fixed set of customs, practices and meanings, and enduring heritage, a ready identifiable sociological category, a set of shared traits and/or experiences” (D. Ross, 1998).

 

 

 

 

 

 
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20/04/2010
PRESS RELEASE - NAFAC 2010
The Minister for Chieftaincy and Culture Alexander Asum – Ahensah (MP) has launched this year’s National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC 2010) at Tamale – in the Northern Region....more
 
16/04/2010
Look again at planning Panafest
I do not know whether the acronym PANAFEST which represents the Pan African Historical Theatre Festival now stands for something else. The Ghanaian Times in it issue Saturday July 4, 2009, attributed the acronym to Pan African Festival of arts and Theatre....more
 
16/04/2010
involve chiefs in local governance
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has been urged to consider the inclusion of chiefs in decision making structures of the decentralization system as part of the process of reviewing it....more
 
21/11/2009
Could your culture be letting you down
As the year draws to a close, several organizations will be reviewing the year with the aim of identifying their successes, difficulties and failures....more
 
24/10/2009
GHANA JOSEPH PROJECT
IN Ghana a person who tends cattle in the bush is called a Fulani. It does not matter whether he is a member of the Fulani tribe of Northern Nigeria....more
 
10/10/2009
Nkrumah’s projects in ruins
Ghana’s desire to attain a middle-income status by 2015 has prompted calls on the government to reactivate hundreds of projects initiated by Ghana’s First President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, but which have been left to rot in many parts of the country....more
 
08/10/2009
Fynn and his eye for culture
Last week, a unique pix-day exhibition of still photographs...more
 
12/09/2009
Developing National Arts and Culture
That the Centres for National Culture throughout the country are the pivots of cultural promotion and development in the country cannot be disputed...more
 
31/08/2009
CULTURAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT PROGRAMME
FIRST KWAME NKRUMAH CENTURY LECTURE ON CULTURE...more
 
27/04/2009
Nkrumah- Africa's greatest son
Thirty seven years ago in far away Bucharet in Romania, death laid its icy hand on Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah-Africa’s greatest statesman. I choose to call him a real statesman because he was really selfless and honest to his country. He actually placed Ghana first, Africa second and himself last. I call him a statesman again because “A statesman thinks of his country and even the interests and aspirations of her future generations....more
 
07/02/2009
Culture-9th Millennium devt goal
A network of arts administrators and artistes from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe last week resolved to lobby policy makers and governments to ensure that culture, as a tool for development, was accepted as the 9th Millennium Development Goal....more
 
03/07/2008
Review Trokosi Law – Research study
A RESEARCH study of the practice of Trokosi in Ghana has revealed the need to review the Trokosi law, its implementation mechanism and the role of institutional agencies in abolishing the practice....more
 
 
   
 
 

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