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An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published in University of Ghana. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of research. They are usually peer-reviewed or refereed.
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Item Temporality, informality, & translocality in Africa’s urban archipelagos(Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2019-11) Landau, Loren B.Mobilities across time and space are reshaping African lives, communities, and imagination. As people make lives across multiple sites – connections forged through travel, media and the circulation of goals, memories and values – they generate novel forms of mobile urbanism and belonging. Cities’ rapidly expanding, diversifying, and mobile urban populations now interact with each other in ways largely unstructured by state regulations or hegemonic social norms. The results are urban socialities often deviating from the models of solidarity, integration, and membership described in classic urban sociology or more recent debates around transnationalism, multiculturalism, and urbanization. While often appearing deeply anomic, fragmented, and relatively unregulated by officials or constitutional orders, these are not genetically antisocial or disconnected sites. Nor are they singular in the histories, morphologies or trajectories. Yet despite the diversity and distance between them, they are linked. These connections draw together urban estuaries where highly fluid populations move into and through cities with archipelagos of people and sites interlinked across and within spatial and temporal horizons. These changing social and urban forms raise epistemological, ethical, and practical challenges around the governance of space, rights, and representation. This paper outlines these concerns as a way of charting research directions for the study of mobile urbanisms.Item Migration Infrastructures in West Africa and Beyond(Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2019-11) Kleist, Nauja; Bjarnesen, JesperInfrastructure is becoming an influential field of inquiry across the social sciences as it has been in policy related research for some time. In migration and mobility related research, the recent introduction of the concept of “migration infrastructure” represents an attempt to theorise the infrastructural approach in relation to the multifaceted mediation of migration. This MIASA working paper considers the usefulness and limitations of the concept of migration infrastructures in understanding labour mobilities in various West African contexts. This juxtaposition of West African cases with the Asian examples that informed the articulation of the concept of migration infrastructures suggests that the framework holds potential for moving beyond migrant-centred analysis, while leaving some open questions regarding the role of migrant agency, the discrepancies between intentions and uses of (migration) infrastructures, the significance of culturally embedded migrant imaginaries, and the impact of global migration governance on national or regional regulatory frameworks.Item “Acting together”: How Non-State Actors shape migration policies in West Africa(Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2019-11) Bisong, AmandaThis paper examines how non-state actors (NSAs) leverage their role in regional migration governance in West Africa. The paper focuses on the involvement of non-state actors in the migration policy process at the regional level. It unpacks the relationships between state and non-state actors, focusing on the media, non-governmental organisations, civil society organisations and academia in West Africa. It examines the engagement between state and NSAs at the regional and national levels, finding that formal and informal spaces for engagement exist and linkages between these levels of governance provide avenues for transposing national solutions to the regional level and vice versa. The paper finds that NSAs leverage formal and informal mechanisms for engagement at the regional and national levels to ensure that their interests are achieved. The paper concludes that involving NSAs in regional migration governance is essential to promote the integration of migration approaches and initiatives from the ‘bottom-up’, complementing the ‘topdown’ state-centric processes in ECOWAS.Item Urban Sanctuary and Solidarity in a Global Context: How Does Africa Contribute to the Debate?(Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), 2019-11) Bauder, HaraldAs national governments and supranational institutions fail to cope with international migration and refugee movements, many cities in the Global North are asserting stronger roles in protecting and including vulnerable international migrants and refugees. Various labels, such as sanctuary city, solidarity city, and city of refuge describe corresponding municipal policies and practices. However, literature that connects such labels to urban policies and practices in the Global South is sparse. I review the English language literature to assess whether the concepts of urban sanctuary and solidarity are applicable in Africa, or whether they represent inherently Eurocentric or Western concepts of little relevance to cities in Africa. The review indicates that there may be some similarities between cities in Africa and the Global North, but that the differences are fundamental and challenge the universality of the concepts of urban sanctuary and solidarity.Item Poverty and Slothfulness: A Reading of Proverbs 6:6-11 In The Ghanaian Context(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2012-12-04) Ntreh, B.A.; Okyere, K.Poverty is inimical to human progress. It is pervasive and wreaks damage in societies. Poverty in Africa is particularly alarming, since the continent is home to a sizeable number of the world's poor. Yet talking about poverty in Africa is contestable, especially when it is about its causes. However, ascertaining the causes of poverty is a positive step in addressing this menace. Apart from the ideological character of many of the discussions on the causes of poverty in Africa, many times, discussions are carried out in the ivory towers of scholars, far removed from the understanding of many ordinary people. Too often then, what ordinary Africans think and the explanations that can be gleaned from their cultural traditions are sidelined. To effectively combat poverty, however, we need to approach the task of delineating its causes from a holistic perspective, one that takes seriously mainstream factors as well as what happens at the margins. One such cause which needs consideration is slothfulness. This paper looks at slothfulness, from the perspective of intra-cultural criticism, as a contributory factor to poverty in Africa and Ghana in particular. On this basis, the paper reads Proverbs 6:6-11 as an illustration of one of the ways ancient Israel dealt with the problem of poverty resulting from slothful attitude. It concludes that the text and indeed a number of proverbial sayings in the Old Testament cohere with Ghanaian proverbial tradition to identify slothful attitude as a promoter of poverty.Item Reading the Gospel of Mark with African Eyes: A Fresh Look at the Exorcism and Healing Passages in Mark(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2012-12-04) Frimpong, E.This article examines the Exorcism and Healing passages of the Gospel of Saint Mark. It is based on a research, conducted with Ghanaian worshipers from twenty two London based Ghanaian churches on their reading of those passages. It unearths explanations and applications that are quite different from conventional ones found in Western European scholarship. The findings have deep implications for hermeneutics and cross cultural interpretation of the GospelItem The Death Penalty: An African Perspective(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2012-12-04) Agbanu, H.L.K.Global debates about whether the death penalty should be abolished or not typically revolve around three main questions: (1) what are the legitimate purpose of punishment (the purposes argument), (2) whether any acts are so heinous that their perpetrators truly deserve to die (the desert argument), and (3) whether the fact that a community continues to use capital punishment is generally expressive of virtuous, or vicious, character traits among . its citizenry (the character argument). This article contends that because the different concerns of these three arguments are not always fully appreciated, abolitionists and retentionists often talk past one another. To illustrate this, we explore the implications of each type of argument in the context of indigenous African morality, showing how each argument takes on new meanings with different degrees of explanatory force. While we do not propose a specific resolution to the global death .penalty debate, we do reach conclusions about how participants in this global conversation ought to proceed.Item The Use of Indigenous Musical Genre in Christian Worship: A Case of Ebibindwom (Akan Sacred Lyrics) in the Methodist Church - Ghana(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2018-12-04) Amuah, J.A.The expression Ebibindwom (Akan Scared Lyrics) are traditional songs used in Christian worship specifically in the Methodist Church-Ghana. The paper unravels the circumstances that led to the institution of this traditional musical genre in the Methodist Church. It also attempts to provide an understanding and direction as to how Ebibindwom, a traditional musical genre, has been performed in and outside the church settings. The paper further provides the distinctive stylistic and expressive idioms that have impacted on the general liturgical and musical outlook of Methodism in Ghana, to serve as an aid to the younger generation who look down upon traditional musical genres, to participate in, and sustain the singing of Ebibindwom.Item The Law as Our Disciplinarian: A Critical Study of Galatians 3:24 In The Dangme Translations of the Bible(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2012-12-04) Kuwornu-Adjaottor, J.E.T.Galatians 3:24 has to do with the function of the law before Christ came. The understanding of the word paidag6gos and the phrase eis Christon are crucial to the translation, exegesis and interpretation of the verse. The way the verse has been rendered in the Dangme translations of the Bible does not bring out the full meaning of the law as our paidag6gos - "disciplinarian," " guardian," "custodian," "trainer" - before Christ came. This may promote antinomian ism among Dangme Bible readers. It is being argued that the verse should be re-translated in the Dangme to bring out its full meaning.Item Physical and Spiritual Purity as Basis for Healing and Holiness in Mark 7:1-7(Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology (GJRT), 2012-12-04) Oderinde, O.A.This paper explores the significance of purity for healing and health. Despite all the exploits that the world has witnessed in the field of science and technology, sicknesses and diseases still pose a serious threat to the existence of man on earth. Many new contagious, incurable, terminal diseases are being discovered almost on daily basis and the medical sciences seem not to have solution to most of these health challenges. It has been discovered however that the choice of personal lifestyle is crucial to health and illness. The link between lifestyle and health is a major area of interest in public health today. Man 's lack of clean habits has been identified as the major cause of contagious diseases. In most cases, poor personal hygiene and public sanitation a id the spread of infectious diseases. I n this regard, physical and spiritual purity as basis for healing and holiness is examined through an exegetical analysis of Mark 7 to actualize the theological meaning of the text in today's context and, engender commitment to personal and societal transformation. The paper adopts both the historical critical method and historical materialist sociological method. It is believed that the control of most of the contagious diseases depends largely on high standard of personal and environmental hygiene and holy living.