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Volume 15–16, 2012–2013: Special Double Issue Volume 12-13, 2009-2010: Special Double Issue Volume 3, 2000: Special Issue on the Yaa Asantewaa War
Note from the Editors
Articles Money That Isn’t: A Qualitative Examination of the Adoption of the 1 Pesewa Coin and Biometric Payment Cards in Ghana
Special Section—Aging in Ghana Aging in Ghana: Setting Priorities for Research, Intervention and Policy
Not a Nurse, Not Househelp: The New Occupation of Elder Carer in Urban Ghana
Elderly Women, Community Participation, and Family Care in Ghana: Lessons from HIV Response and AIDS Orphan Care in Manya Krobo
Health and Well-Being of Older Adults in Ghana: Social Support, Gender, and Ethnicity
Household Composition and Well-Being of Older Persons in Ghana
Aging Policies in Ghana: A Review of the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty and the National Health Insurance Scheme
Research on Aging in Ghana from the 1950s to 2016: A Bibliography and Commentary
Studying Older People in Ghana: Closing Reflections
Book Reviews
Paul Schauert, Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles
Contributors
Note from the Editors
Articles Fort Prindzenstein: A Monument in the Identity of Keta-Someawo
“I Am a Good Mother”: Becoming an Adolescent Mother in Ghana
“I Am Austro-Ghanaian”: Citizenship and Belonging of Ghanaians in Austria
Who Is the “Community” in Community Radio?: A Case Study of Radio Progress in the Upper West Region, Ghana
“Fetishism” in the Gold Coast: Wadé Harris and the Anti-Witchcraft
Movements
Our Resource, Others’ Wealth: The Origins of Legalized
Discrimination against Local Goldsmiths in Ghana
Hidden Violence of Postcolonial Africa: A Communicative
Ecology View of Ghanaís Upper East Region
Notes and Documents The Enduring Puzzle of Patriliny in Asante History:
A Note and a Document on Ntɔrɔ
Reflections in Honor of Ivor Wilks The Historic Legacy of Ivor Wilks
“Off to Northern Ghana in the Morning”: Ramifications of a Trip
In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks
Ivor Wilks: The British Africanist
Ivor Wilks (1928–2014)
The Northern Factor in Ghana History
Book Review
Contributors
Editors’ Note
Blackboard Struggles: Teacher Unionism under the “Democratic” Rawlings Regime, 1992–2000
Global Economic Crisis and Socio-Economic Vulnerability: Historical Experience and Lessons from the “Lost Decade” for Africa in the 1980s
(In)Visible Diasporan Returnee Communities: Silences and the Challenge in Studying Trans-Atlantic History in Ghana
The Ritualization of the Self in Ghanaian Gospel Music
Protecting the Environment for the Present and Future Generations: REDD+ and the Reversal of Deforestation in Ghana
The Kusasi-Mamprusi Conflict in Bawku: A Legacy of British Colonial Policy in Northern Ghana
Different Ideas of Borders and Border Construction in Northern Ghana: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Cosmopolitanism: Why Nineteenth Century Gold Coast Thinkers Matter in the Twenty-First Century
Free People, Slaves and Pawns in the Western Gold Coast: The Demography of Dependency in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Archival Source
Review:
Notes on Contributors
Volume 15/16, 2012–2013
Editors’ Note
Introduction: Studying Health and Health Care in Ghana
Articles on Health and Health Care The Perception of Abnormality in Kasena and Nankani Infants: Clarifying Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Caring for the Seriously Sick in a Ghanaian Society: Glimpses from the Past
“No Matter How the Child Is, She Is Hers”: Practical Kinship in the Care of Mental Illness in Kintampo, Ghana
HIV Disclosure in Ghana: The Underlying Gender Dimension to Trust and Caregiving
Mobile Technology and HIV/AIDS in Ghana
Dilemmas of Patient Expertise: People Living with HIV as Peer Educators in a Ghanaian Hospital
Pharmaceutical Potentials: Praying over Medicines in Pentecostal Healing
Humanitarian Claims and Expert Testimonies: Contestations over Health Care for Ghanaian Migrants in the United Kingdom
Documentaries on Women’s Health Accra’s Women on Screen, 2001: A Documentary Pair about Body, Risks, Tonics, and Health
Other Articles Managing the Pan-African Workplace: Discipline, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of the Ghanaian Bureau of African Affairs
Staging Unity, Performing Subjectivities: Nkrumah, Nation-Building, and the Ghana Dance Ensemble
Discourses of Love and Newspapers Advice Columns in Ghana
Reviews
Christine Oppong, Delali M. Badasu, and Kari Waemess, eds., Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana
Notes on Contributors
Volume 14, 2011 Editors’ Note
Reconsidering Ivor Wilks’s ‘Big Bang’ Theory of Akan History
Tamale: Election 2008, Violence, and “Unemployment”
Ethnicity, Religion, and Conflict in Ghana: The Roots of Ga Nativism
Growing Up in a Transnational Household: A Study of Children of International Migrants in Accra, Ghana
Child Domestic Labor in Accra: Opportunity and Empowerment or Perpetuation of Gender Inequality?
Neo-Liberal Economic Restructuring of Public Universities in Ghana: Effects and Challenges for Academic Women Scientists
‘The One Who First Says I Love You’: Same-Sex Love and Female Masculinity in Postcolonial Ghana
‘This Thing is Sweet’: Ntetee and the Reconfiguration of Sexual Subjectivity in Post-Colonial Ghana
Notes on Contributors
Volume 12-13, 2009–2010: Special Double Issue Editors’ Note
Introduction: Revisiting Modernization in Ghana
Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects
Modernity, Religion and Development in Ghana: The Example of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Maternity and Modernity in the Gold Coast, 1920s–1950s
Consulting Elderly Kumasi Market Women about Modernization
Modernity and Danger: The Boy Kumasenu and the Work of the Gold Coast Film Unit
Traditions of Modernity: Currents in Architectural Expression in Kumasi
Gyamfi’s Golden Soap: Commodity Marketing, Reform Legitimation, and the Performance of Cultural Authenticity in Ghana’s Popular Theatre
The Funeral as a Site for Choreographing Modern Identities in Contemporary Ghana
Misnomer: Reflections on a Dance Performance
“Still 2 Trouble(s) One God”: Art Exhibition at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon
The Revisiting Modernization Short Story Competition
Time Bomb
There are Always Two Sides to Every Story
Dim Dim, Tim Tim
Participants in the Revisiting Modernization Conference, University of Ghana, July 2009
Notes on Contributors
Volume 11, 2008 Editors’ Note
The Historical and Political Legacies of the Transformations of the (Dutch) Sekondi Socio-Economic Landscape during the Early Twentieth Century
Hard Work, Determination, and Luck: Biographical Narratives of a Northern Ghanaian Elite
Ausländer!: Pentecostalism as Social Capital Network for Ghanaians in Vienna
Reflections on By-Elections in the Fourth Republic of Ghana
Truly National? Social Exclusion and the Ghana@50 Celebrations
The “Commercial” and “Museum” Life of Some Akan Brass Works
Review Essay: Situating Histories of Consumption and Consumers in Ghana
Notes on Contributors
Volume 10, 2007 Editors’ Note
Popular Performance and Culture in Ghana: The Past 50 Years
Fifty Years in Kwahu-Tafo: Memories and Reflections of an Anthropologist
Fifty Years of the Media’s Struggle for Democracy in Ghana: Legacies and Encumbrances
Politics in Ghana Since 1957: The Quest for Freedom, National Unity, and Prosperity
Asante History: A Personal History of Forty Years
Women in Ghana at 50: Still Struggling to Achieve Full Citizenship?
Notes on Contributors
Volume 9, 2006 Editors’ Note
The Dutch Gold-Mining Effort in Ahanta, 1841–9
‘Natives’ and ‘Strangers’ on the Outskirts of Kumasi
Legitimating a Contested Boundary: Northern Ghanaian Immigrants and the Historicity of Land Conflict in Ahyiayem, Brong Ahafo
Wealth and Worth: Pastorship and Neo-Pentecostalism in Kumasi
(A)sexualizing Ghanaian Youth?: A Case Study of Virgin Clubs in Accra and Kumasi
Transcending Gendered Economics: Grassroots Women’s Agency in the Informal Sector of the Ghanaian Economy
The Making of an African Bolshevik: Bankole Awooner Renner in Moscow, 1925–1928
Notes on Contributors
Volume 8, 2005 Editors’ Note
Education, Literacy, Training, and Propaganda in a Ghanaian Border Town
Excavations at Techiman, Brong-Ahafo
Teacher Trainees in Ghana in the early 1960s: Women and the Teaching of Home Science
Going, Going, Gone! Implications of the Repeal of Criminal Libel and Sedition Laws in Ghana
Charismatism, Women, and Testimonies: Religion and Popular Culture in Ghana
Volume 7, 2004 Editors’ Note
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Earth Shrines and the Politics of Memory in Dagbon
Memories of Place and Belonging: Identity, Citizenship, and the Lebanese in Ghana
Korle Bu and the Midwives Hostel as a Site of memory for Ghanaian Pupil Midwives, 1930s–1950s
‘Slave Castles’ and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Ghanaian and African American Perspectives
The Politics of Memory: Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Exhibition ‘Crossroads of People, Crossroads of Trade’
Asen Praso in History and Memory
Encyclopedia of the Dead: Transgenerational Memories and Cultural Transmission Among the Akan of Ghana
‘In Blessed Memory’: (Re)presentations of the Lives of the Departed in Ghanaian Funeral Programs
Volume 6, 2003 Editorial
Crop Failures, Food Shortages and Colonial Famine Relief Policies in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
The Sex Trade, Globalization and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto, Canada: Care of Kin and Gender Relations
Connecting with the Past, Building the Future: African Americans and Chieftaincy in Southern Ghana
‘Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade’: Trans-Africanism and Popular History in Postcolonial Ghana
Re-evaluating the ‘Colonization’ of Akyem Abuakwa: Amoako Atta, the Basel Mission, and the Gold Coast Courts, 1867–1887
Volume 5, 2002 Editor’s Introduction
Introduction: Teaching and Learning in Ghana—Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Education in Ghana: Yesterday and Today
Mass Education and Communication in Ghana: A Globalization Perspective
History of Islamic Education in Ghana: An Overview
Gender Issues in Ghanaian Tertiary Institutions: Women Academics and Administrators at Cape Coast University
Does Women’s Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making? A Case Study from Urban Ghana
Other Articles:
The Bureaucratization of Traditional Authority under Colonial Rule: The Asante Stool Treasuries, 1927–1944
Free People, Slaves and Pawns in the Western Gold Coast: The Demography of Dependency in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Archival Source
Sacred Groves as Historical and Archaeological Markers in Southern Ghana
‘Nigger Driver Brothers’: Australian Colonial Racism in the Early Gold Coast Mining Industry
‘Mallams Do Not Fight With the Heathen’: A Note on Suwarian Attitudes to Jihad
The Performativity of Akan Libations: A Comment
Volume 4, 2001 Editor’s Introduction
Moral Discourses and Public Spaces in the Fourth Republic
Aid or Hindrance? Faith Gospel Theology and Ghana’s Incorporation into the Global Economy
Contesting Silence: The Ban on Drumming and the Musical Politics of Pentecostalism in Ghana
Money, Power and Morality: Popular Ghanaian Cinema in the Fourth Republic
The Things That Money Can Buy: Chieftaincy, the Media and the 1996 Elections in Hohoe-North Constituency
Other articles:
The Performativity of Akan Libations: An Ethnopoetic Construction of Reality
A Precolonial, Political History of the Sefwi Wiawso Oman
Interpersonal Networks and the Dissemination of the Mass Media’s Environmental Agenda in Ghana
Volume 3, 2000: Special Issue in Commemoration of the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900 Editor’s Introduction
Asante at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight
The Golden Stool at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight
The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance
Yaa Asantewaa in the Yaa Asantewaa War of 1900: Military Leader or Symbolic Head?
Yaa Asantewaa’s War of Independence: Honoring and Ratifying an Historic Pledge
Long Live the Queen!: The Yaa Asantewaa Centenary and the Politics of History
Volume 2, 1999 Editor’s Introduction
Introduction: Contemporary Ghanaian Migration
Travel Patterns and Coping Strategies of Ghanaian Migrants in Toronto
The African Diaspora: A Socio-Demographic Portrait of the Ghanaian Migrant Community in the United States of America
Been-To Visions: Transnational Linkages Among a Ghanaian Dispersed Community in the Twentieth Century
‘This Place is Not Ghana’: Gender and Rights Discourse Among Ghanaian Men and Women in Toronto
Other Articles:
A ‘Somewhat Firm Policy’: The Role of the Gold Coast Judiciary in Implementing Slave Emancipation, 1874–1900
Colonial Ethnography and Political Reform: The Works of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone, R. S. Rattray, J. Eyre-Smith, and J. Guiness on Northern Ghana
The Last Will and Testament of Kofi Sraha: A Note on Accumulation and Inheritance in Colonial Asante
Volume 1, 1998 ‘Eating Kola’: The Pharmacological and Therapeutic Significance of Kola Nuts
Slavery and Abolition in the Gold Coast: Colonial Modes of Emancipation and African Initiatives
Trokosi (Child Slavery) in Ghana: A Policy Approach
Housing Conditions and Spatial Organization in Accra, 1950s–1990s
Akwankwaa: Owusu Sekyere Agyeman in His Life and Times
Transferring Power in Ghana: Some Thoughts on What the Archives Might Be Telling Us
The Diaries of A. C. Duncan-Johnstone: A Preliminary Analysis of British Involvement in the ‘Native Courts’ of Colonial Asante
‘Unity and Progress’: Asante Politics Revisited
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