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Indigenous Ewe Symbols And Their Meaning
Indigenous Ewe Symbols And Their Meaning 560 380 National Commision on Culture

Below are indigenous Ewe Symbols and their meaning (EƲE DZESIWO) Courtesy of Centre For National Culture – Volta Region Fiayi Fiayi is a symbol for chiefs. The symbol literally means…

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

  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…

CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA
CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA 150 150 National Commision on Culture

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…

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

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…

THE VALUABLE AFRICAN CULTURE
THE VALUABLE AFRICAN CULTURE 150 150 National Commision on 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…

THE TABOOS OF THE SPIRIT
THE TABOOS OF THE SPIRIT 150 150 National Commision on Culture

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…

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

THE GHANAIAN KITCHEN
THE GHANAIAN KITCHEN 150 150 National Commision on Culture

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…

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

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,…

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