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    The Influence of James Anquandah on the Development and Practice of Eclectic Archaeology in Ghana
    (Ghana Studies, 2019) Mustapha, M.; Apoh, W.
    This paper elucidates the impact and influence that Professor James Anquandah’s work and efforts had on the development and practice of archaeology in Ghana. As the first Ghanaian-trained archaeologist, Anquan Dah committed his life and expertise to the establishment and consolidation of archaeological training in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, at the University of Ghana. In doing so, he trained five generations of ar archaeology students over five decades. His passion for archaeological fieldwork, community participation in archaeology, and, ultimately, the use of eclectic ar archaeology in solving societal challenges have influenced the scholastic practices of many of the students he trained. In this paper, the coauthors explain how Anquandah’s concept and practice of eclectic archaeology have influenced their ongoing research projects in Ghana.
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    The contentious Ghanaian: An historical appraisal of social movements in Ghana
    (History Compass, 2023) Sapong, N.Y.B.
    Ideas of freedom, liberty, and social justice are germane to most societies, including African societies. The quest for these values also often involves contentions, dialog, and compromise. Sadly, the often-told stories of political and social change in Africa are brush-stroked with bloodshed. tears, and anguish. This Africa of pessimism, unfulfilled dreams, state-sponsored violence, and civil wars are familiar headline in the global North. This work, however, proposes that African countries such as Ghana have been resolving their disagreements and contentions through other means. These range from subtle, subversive, noncompliant and complex responses to the less preferred direct and open confrontation with authority. Secondly, the historiography of protest movements in Ghana reveals a lingering preference for twentieth-century social movements, neglecting nineteenth-century forms of protest and social movement bases, which employed subtlety, noncompliance, and sometimes direct confrontation. Lastly, initial social movement literature showed a preponderance of male-dominated narratives, which eventually led to the creation of female-inspired alternate narratives. Using selected works in social movement theory, general surveys on the history of Ghana, monographs, journal articles, book chapters and unpublished theses, this article seeks to offer a panoramic view of the history-writing of social movements and its prospects in Ghana.
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    Considering escaping hell
    (Religious Studies, 2022) Ani, E.I.
    Adams argues that the traditional doctrine of eternal hellish experience stretches the Problem of Evil beyond any reasonable solution, as hell is stubbornly incompatible with God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness. Buckareff and Plug argue that people could leave hell. Matheson responds that if people could leave hell, people could leave heaven. But Matheson provides reasons to think that this is not possible. Luck attempts to refute Matheson’s argument. I show that Luck’s attempt contains analogies that lack features that crucially depict the asymmetrical relationship between heaven and hell. I suggest some other analogies that I think contain such features.
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    Afro-communitarianism or Cosmopolitanism
    (The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2020) Ani, E.I.
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    Two Steps Forward: An African Relational Account of Moral Standing
    (Philosophy & Technology, 2022) Jecker, N.S.; Atiure, C.A.; Ajei, M.O.
    This paper replies to a commentary by John-Stewart Gordon on our paper, “The Moral Standing of Social Robots: Untapped Insights from Africa.” In the original In this paper, we set forth an African relational view of personhood and show its implications for the moral standing of social robots. This reply clarifies our position and answers three objections. The objections concern (1) the ethical significance of intelligence, (2) the meaning of ‘pro-social,’ and (3) the justification for prioritizing humans over pro-social robots.
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    African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues
    (Medical Humanities, 2022) Atuire, C.A.
    This paper offers an African perspective on moral status grounded on an understanding of personhood. These concepts are key to understanding the differences in emphasis and the values at play when global ethical issues are analysed within the African context. Drawing from African philosophical reflections on the descriptive and normative concepts of personhood, I propose a dual notion of subject-object moral status. I explain how object moral status, duties owed to persons, is differently grounded with respect to subject's moral status, which refers to communally directed agency. This distinction influences the African way of conceptualising and addressing ethical issues, where, without ignoring rights of persons, moral consideration about the agency of Righteousness is often factored into ethical deliberation. As a practical example, I look at the debate surrounding legal access to safe abortion on the African continent. I suggest a Gadamerian approach to diffuse the tensions that sometimes arise between universalist advocates of rights and cultural decolonizationists.
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    Bioethics In Africa: A Contextually Enlightened Analysis Of Three Cases
    (Developing World Bioethics, 2021) Jecker, N.S.; Atuire, C.
    Across sub-Saharan Africa, bioethics is an emerging field of scholarly inquiry informed by contextual features distinct to the region. a cultural mix comprised of European influences, indigenous traditions, Christian faiths, and Muslim communities, a bioethics for the sub-Saharan region must be responsive to this milieu. This paper asks: What values and methods can best promote the practice of bioethics in Africa? We set forth a strategy that leans one way or another in response to the contextual features of a particular setting. Since our aim is to be responsive to context, we begin with a series of cases and develop values and methods in response to each case as we work through its ethical analysis. Section 1 introduces a case involving setting priorities for public funding of services that produce large benefits for a small group of people, using the example of dialysis in Ghana. Section 11 presents a situation involving determining the permissibility of a double standard of quality for healthcare devices in rich and poor nations, using the example of explanting peacemakers from deceased people in wealthy nations for use by people in low and middle-income nations. Section 111 describes a scenario where international groups clash with religious and spiritual healers over the chaining of people with severe mental illness at prayer camps and healing centres in Ghana. Section IV articulates a three-pronged strategy for engaging in bioethics brought to light by the case analyses and defends it against objections. Throughout the paper, we tag certain views as African and others as Western to indicate ethical beliefs commonly found in these regions and less commonly found elsewhere. We do not mean to imply that all Africans hold a certain ethical stance or that all Westerners do, nor do we mean to suggest that people outside these regions do not hold the views in question.
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    ‘Let No Black Cat Cross Our Path’: An Introduction to Ga Rituals of Affliction
    (Journal of Religion in Africa, 2021) Adu, G.K.
    Although much has been said about Ga rituals by earlier scholars such as Ammah, According to Kilson and Field, no direct and comprehensive literature exists that deals specifically with Ga rituals of affliction. Rituals of affliction are measures by which cultures attempt to deal with the problem of ‘affliction’. All cultures have a different way of which affliction is explained and dealt with. This article explores Ga rituals of affliction based on an analysis of one text line in the Galibation prayers, ‘Let no black cat cross our path’ (alŻnte diŋ ko akafo wŻteŋ).
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    Liberation Philology: Decolonizing Classics In Africa, A Native View From The South
    (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2022) Schoor, D.; Ackah, K.; Asante, M.K.O.
    If you were a manumitted slave, the child of a slave or descendant of enslaved or dispossessed people or, say, you were a member of your society’s lowest castes and you were given the opportunity to study, and perhaps even to take up scholarship as your life’s work, your vocation, what subject would you, should you elect to learn?
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    Pursuing nation building within multi-partisan fragmentation: the case of Ghana
    (National Identities, 2020) Atuire, C.A.
    Ghana has earned many accolades for multi-partisan democracy in sub Saharan Africa. This political system has also produced many social and economic benefits for the citizenry. However, political parties are also a vehicle for the promotion of ethnic fragmentation that perils nation building. This article explores how partisan politics in Ghana is undermining nation building. I propose a three-pronged approach to working towards nation building amidst the fragmentation of adversarial multi-partysm.