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Leave me alone, I have a right to pleasure / To feel or not to feel ? National Commision on Culture

Leave me alone, I have a right to pleasure / To feel or not to feel ?

  A culturally centered critical comparative look at Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Ghana; A survivor’s take. There are diverse cultural practices scattered across Ghana. Cultural practices in any community have the ability to cause both negative and positive effects on social development in that community or society. Culture is…

CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA 150 150 National Commision on Culture

CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA

Culture is a marker of identity. Every society has its own distinct culture or certain identifiers that makes it different from others. In this dispensation of globalization, where no country leaves in isolation and there is constant interactions and exposure to other cultures, there will sure be some form of…

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE 21ST CENTURY 150 150 National Commision on Culture

POPULAR CULTURE AND THE 21ST CENTURY

Culture is a large presence in any society. It influences our ethics and morals, the way that we interact with others and even the way that we think. The power that culture has on our behaviour is undeniable. Many cultures have historical origins and are based on old traditions. They…

THE VALUABLE AFRICAN CULTURE 150 150 National Commision on Culture

THE VALUABLE AFRICAN CULTURE

The culture of a people is what marks them out distinctively from other human societies in the family of humanity. The full study of culture in all its vastness and dimensions belongs to the discipline known as anthropology, which studies human beings and takes time to examine their characteristics and…

THE TABOOS OF THE SPIRIT 150 150 National Commision on Culture

THE TABOOS OF THE SPIRIT

Laws are established to protect the citizens of a particular group of people. In other words, laws exist to protect the right of the members of a society and to ensure that they do not have to protect those rights through their own actions. The law has generally two parts,…

THE GOOD ABOUT THE GHANAIAN CULTURE 150 150 National Commision on Culture

THE GOOD ABOUT THE GHANAIAN CULTURE

Culture is said to be the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. Ghanaian culture is one which is rich in heritage and has been passed down from generations to generations, it is one which is…

THE GHANAIAN KITCHEN 150 150 National Commision on Culture

THE GHANAIAN KITCHEN

Food is central to human life regardless of where you are in the world. The Ghanaian cuisine is very much influenced by the natural possessions and surroundings of Ghana and by the local climate of the country. The existence of many rivers and lakes, the tropical, warm and rainy, weather,…

LANGUAGE AS A VEHICLE OF CULTURE IN GHANA 150 150 National Commision on Culture

LANGUAGE AS A VEHICLE OF CULTURE IN GHANA

Culture according to lan Robertson is “all the shared products of society: material and non – material’’, that is the totality of learned, and socially transmitted behavior. It includes ideas, values and customs of a society culture is related with food, language, religion, education, technology, external influence, norms and values…