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What is in a flag? the Swastika and Togoland and nationalism

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Flags were important symbols in the acquisition of colonies in Africa since 1884. Karl Peters and two colleagues went to Zanzibar in 1884 with ‘a number of German flags and treaty forms and hoisted the flags at Mbuzini’. ...
Searching and picking the rotten grain from within: Conflicts as barriers of Africa’s development

Alidza, Matthew Q.; Amlor, Martin Q. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Language has remained the basic tool for human communication and social interaction expressed through various forms such as music (songs) and drum language. Ethnicity, defined as group identity based on linguistic differential, ...
Resurgence of multi-party rule in Ghana, 1990-2004 a historical review

Yayoh, Wilson Kwame (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Ghana's political history since independence was full of "cases of alternations between authoritarianism and democracy"1. Democratic experiments in 1969 and 1979 were truncated by military takeovers making Ghana's political ...
Personhood, human rights and health among the Akan and Igbo of West Africa

Wilson, Alex J. (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

Many African countries are now abreast with the need to link healthcare and human rights, but the individual factor to ensure this is missing. It has become imperative that health policy-makers reflect on the health of ...
Land tenure system: women’s access to land in a cosmopolitan context

Seraphim, Eva; Quansah, Tandoh (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Land tenure is a concept that looks at how people gain access to land and how they make use of it. In various African societies, there are cases where women's land ownership is complicated by the gender ideology that women ...
Krepi states in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2002)
Indigenous education in environmental management and conservation in Ghana: The Role of folklore

Amlor, Martin Q.; Alidza, Matthew Q. (University of Cape Coast, 2016-06-30)

Studies into indigenous knowledge of African societies and their eco-system, and complemented by western research findings in recent years, point to a common fact that there is a complex interrelation between humans, ...
German rule in colonial Ewedome (Ghana), 1890-1914

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Ewedome has a unique history; it experienced colonialism under two diametrically opposed colonial powers – Britain and Germany. Yet the colonial experiences of this region remained largely unexplored by historians. This ...
Evaluation of NHMRC funded research completed in 1992, 1997 and 2003: gains in knowledge, health and wealth

Kingwell, Bronwyn A; Anderson, Gary P; Duckett, Stephen J; Hoole, Elizabeth A; Jackson-Pulver, Lisa R; Khachigian, Levon M; Morris, Meg E; Roder, David M; Rothwell-Short, Jan; Wilson, Andrew J (University of Cape Coast, 2006)

Objective: To report on strategies for, and outcomes of, evaluation of knowledge (publications), health and wealth (commercial) gains from medical research funded by the Australian Government through the National Health ...
Ethnographic research, local power brokers and the political reorganization of Colonial Ewedome, British mandated territory, 1914-1930s

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Present-day scholars have critically examined the nature and dynamics of indirect rule in Africa and have found it to be riddled with contradictions and ambiguities. Colonial officers were often accused of imposing colonial ...

What is in a flag? the Swastika and Togoland and nationalism

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Flags were important symbols in the acquisition of colonies in Africa since 1884. Karl Peters and two colleagues went to Zanzibar in 1884 with ‘a number of German flags and treaty forms and hoisted the flags at Mbuzini’. ...
Searching and picking the rotten grain from within: Conflicts as barriers of Africa’s development

Alidza, Matthew Q.; Amlor, Martin Q. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Language has remained the basic tool for human communication and social interaction expressed through various forms such as music (songs) and drum language. Ethnicity, defined as group identity based on linguistic differential, ...
Resurgence of multi-party rule in Ghana, 1990-2004 a historical review

Yayoh, Wilson Kwame (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Ghana's political history since independence was full of "cases of alternations between authoritarianism and democracy"1. Democratic experiments in 1969 and 1979 were truncated by military takeovers making Ghana's political ...
Personhood, human rights and health among the Akan and Igbo of West Africa

Wilson, Alex J. (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

Many African countries are now abreast with the need to link healthcare and human rights, but the individual factor to ensure this is missing. It has become imperative that health policy-makers reflect on the health of ...
Land tenure system: women’s access to land in a cosmopolitan context

Seraphim, Eva; Quansah, Tandoh (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Land tenure is a concept that looks at how people gain access to land and how they make use of it. In various African societies, there are cases where women's land ownership is complicated by the gender ideology that women ...
Krepi states in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2002)
Indigenous education in environmental management and conservation in Ghana: The Role of folklore

Amlor, Martin Q.; Alidza, Matthew Q. (University of Cape Coast, 2016-06-30)

Studies into indigenous knowledge of African societies and their eco-system, and complemented by western research findings in recent years, point to a common fact that there is a complex interrelation between humans, ...
German rule in colonial Ewedome (Ghana), 1890-1914

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Ewedome has a unique history; it experienced colonialism under two diametrically opposed colonial powers – Britain and Germany. Yet the colonial experiences of this region remained largely unexplored by historians. This ...
Evaluation of NHMRC funded research completed in 1992, 1997 and 2003: gains in knowledge, health and wealth

Kingwell, Bronwyn A; Anderson, Gary P; Duckett, Stephen J; Hoole, Elizabeth A; Jackson-Pulver, Lisa R; Khachigian, Levon M; Morris, Meg E; Roder, David M; Rothwell-Short, Jan; Wilson, Andrew J (University of Cape Coast, 2006)

Objective: To report on strategies for, and outcomes of, evaluation of knowledge (publications), health and wealth (commercial) gains from medical research funded by the Australian Government through the National Health ...
Ethnographic research, local power brokers and the political reorganization of Colonial Ewedome, British mandated territory, 1914-1930s

Yayoh, Wilson K. (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Present-day scholars have critically examined the nature and dynamics of indirect rule in Africa and have found it to be riddled with contradictions and ambiguities. Colonial officers were often accused of imposing colonial ...

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