School of Artshttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/230172024-03-28T15:43:49Z2024-03-28T15:43:49ZA Life of Integrity: The Maccabean StorySalakpi, A.G.K.http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/412952024-02-16T11:18:30Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZA Life of Integrity: The Maccabean Story
Salakpi, A.G.K.
The experience of ontological and epistemological dominations made Africans lose their
self-consciousness and become unfulfilled in life. Every human being has a life of integrity that
must be lived. The Maccabees in the Bible were dominated by Antiochus IV, the King of Syria.
He desecrated the Temple, changed their religion, politics, economy, and social life and above all
made himself a god to be worshipped. He deprived the Jews of their identity and dominated them
ontologically, but they had a life of integrity to live. Some of the Jews accepted the new way of life
by Antiochus and helped to betray those few Jews who stood against this new system of Antiochus.
Many of the pious Jews lost their lives, but with hope in Yahweh and persistent endurance they
regained their identity and life of integrity. The plague of coloniality made Africans invariably lose
their identity, and consequently their integrity as others determined their pace of life. The African
story is like the Maccabean story; this article studies selected texts in Maccabees (1 Maccabees 2 and
3; 2 Maccabees 6 and 7) and suggests their regaining of identity and life of integrity to the African
situation. The paper uses biblical exegesis and intercultural interpretations to unearth the buried
African treasures for an integrity of life.
Research Article
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZConfronting Nollywood’s Hegemony In Ghana: A Historical Perspective Of Akan Video Movies In GhanaOhene-Asah, R.http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/411792024-02-12T15:21:50Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZConfronting Nollywood’s Hegemony In Ghana: A Historical Perspective Of Akan Video Movies In Ghana
Ohene-Asah, R.
The literature on Ghana’s cinema practices have focused primarily
on the English-language film industry centralized in the capital, Accra. The last
two decades, however, witnessed a significant rise in Akan-language videos
originating largely from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The number of
movies produced and the audience reception resulted in a decline in circulation
of the Accra English-language movies as well as those from Nollywood, which
dominated the African film spectrum. Despite these successes, the Akan video
industry is largely understudied. This article relies on observations and interviews
with practitioners within the Kumasi film production enclave to suggest that the
adoption of indigenous languages for film is consequential to the break in former
Nollywood film dominance in Ghana. I examine key historical accounts and the
nature of the Akan video film industry as a countermovement to the status quo as
well as a cultural resistance strategy that successfully challenged the Nollywood
hegemony, which stretched throughout the continent and beyond.
Research Article
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZPreparing ethical review systems for emergencies: next stepsWright, K.Aagaard, N.Atuire, C.et al.http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/410432023-12-20T11:19:55Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPreparing ethical review systems for emergencies: next steps
Wright, K.; Aagaard, N.; Atuire, C.; et al.
Ethical review systems need to build on their experiences of COVID-19 research to enhance their preparedness
for future pandemics. Recommendations from representatives from over twenty countries include: improving
relationships across the research ecosystem; demonstrating willingness to reform and adapt systems and processes;
and making the case robustly for better resourcing.
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2023-01-01T00:00:00Z“Thy Law Is within My Heart” (Ps 40:7). Sacred Tradition in the Hebrew Psalter and in African Indigenous TextsMensah, M.K.http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/410402023-12-20T11:19:04Z2023-01-01T00:00:00Z“Thy Law Is within My Heart” (Ps 40:7). Sacred Tradition in the Hebrew Psalter and in African Indigenous Texts
Mensah, M.K.
Every society possesses systems for accessing, preserving, and transmitting its traditions.
These are meant to ensure that privileged knowledge entrusted to reliable custodians is passed on un‑
changed between generations for the preservation of society. In Africa, scholars have advocated new
hermeneutical approaches to the study of the Bible, arguing that the adoption of traditional methods
of exegesis served as another instrument in the colonialists’ toolkit to undermine the reception and
preservation of Africa’s sacred traditions. Using African Biblical Hermeneutics, this paper studies
the processes for preserving Sacred Tradition in Psalm 40. Similar processes are found in African
Indigenous Sacred Texts such as the mate masie of the Adinkra textual system. I argue, therefore, that
a complementary reading of the texts of the two traditions could serve to de‑link from the monocular
vision of traditional exegesis and offer a much more fruitful approach to interpreting these texts and
making them relevant to the contemporary African reader.
Research Article
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