Essays about: "essay on ghana"

Found 3 essays containing the words essay on ghana.

  1. 1. CROSSING BORDERS: A Study of Transnational Living in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2014) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2019-10-22]
    Keywords : Taye Selasi; No Violet Bulawayo; Sara Ahmed; Afropoitanism;

    Abstract : Abstract: A number of authors of African descent published ‘Afropolitan’ novels around the year 2010. Several of these diaspora novels dominated the literary scene and caused intense debates about the contested concept of Afropolitanism. The authors Taye Selasi and No Violet Bulawayo challenge colonial images of Africa in their writing. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Not every literate is literate in the sense of understanding that a woman needs her own rights” - Exploring men’s support for women’s empowerment in Ghana – a Minor Field Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Viktoria Nguema; [2017]
    Keywords : Ghana; urban; African feminism; empowerment; support; masculinities; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development aid organizations are increasingly turning their focus on men and masculinities in the pursuit of women’s empowerment. Despite much effort to improve the lives of women, the hegemonic definition of empowerment in economic and individualistic terms have not been able to attack the unequal power structures between men and women, causing them to persist until this day. READ MORE

  4. 3. From Slave Wife of the Gods to " ke te pam tem eng". Trokosi seen through the Eyes of the Participants

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Sofia Wiking; [2009]
    Keywords : Human rights; women’s rights; feminism; post colonial feminism; religious education; human right’s education; Ghana; minor field study; religious cultural traditional practice;

    Abstract : AbstractThis final essay in religious studies at Malmö Lärarutbildningen (Teacher’s education) is a minor field study (MFS) carried out in Ghana about Trokosi. Trokosi is a tradition, system and practice where young girls are given to village shrine priests as sexual and domestic slaves, or "wives of the gods", in compensation for offenses allegedly committed by a member of the girl's family. READ MORE