Peter Arthur

• HOD at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Ecoconsciousness has resulted in the creation of Ecocriticism as a theory that looks at humans and their interactions with the natural world. The interest in this interaction comes as a result of the increasing concerns for possible threats to human life such as global warming, rising sea levels, land degradation, water shortage, air pollution and...

Various subjugated and coerced groups show different ways of resistance to the source which exerts these forces. Postcolonial criticism is one of the means once colonized countries scholars sometimes use to rewrite colonial text and also create their own forms of resistance. Using one of O’Reilly’s parameters for classifying literary work as postco...

There have been literary scholars such as Ruth Finnegan who have argued and asserted that drama is not a literary genre that is well developed in Africa. Although this assertion has been refuted and disproved by other literary scholars such as Euchero, Enekwe and Owomoyela, people still struggle with exactly what drama in Africa entails and is abou...

This study explores the issue of counter-hegemony in traditional rule. The main focus is on how power is exhibited by traditional rulers and other people in authority, and how this power is resisted by the subjects of the ruling class. The study also examines how cultural practices such as festival songs are used as a mechanism for social control....

The study looks at the contemporary lyrics of Ghana and uses the Performance theory to investigate the social and cultural precipitates of these lyrics. It looks at social environment that that influences the cognitive semiotics of these texts, especially Ghanaian youth ideologies and philosophy that informs their contemporary lifestyles.

Article information For many years, African women have been blaming men for the inferior position of the female gender in African societies. In this blame game, the patriarchal and cultural stipulations of societies are not left out since they present the male gender as superior. This observation is emphasised by the myriads of texts on feminism wh...

This paper sees the Akan concept of “bosom”, translated into English as “lesser god”, as a very powerful socializing instrument used in constructing social order in the community. The aim of this paper is not to discount or dismiss the spiritual powers of the “bosom” but to use oral literature as a platform to investigate the role of the Akan peopl...

This paper discusses the intertextual relationship between the world of Akan Bragoro (puberty rites) song texts and the real world of Akans. The Akan Bragoro song texts are performed during Bragoro celebrations and the song texts define the Akan concept of sex and marriage within the parameters of traditional Akan philosophy. The paper uses qualita...

Ghana is seriously reeling under the weight of the scourge of the COVID-19; while the scientists are doing their best to provide information concerning the dos and don’ts of the disease, its communication to the people has been a huge problem. This paper uses the qualitative research approach and the Performance and Communication theories to invest...

“Anansesεm”, far from being just a tradional source of entertainment for the youth in Ghana, as the uninitiated would believe it, is a serious Akan discursive approach to providing the social philosophy that guides their life. This investigation is done using ethnographic and structural analysis approaches that pair characters in “anansesεm” to cre...

The fluidity 1 of the text allows a mode of textual constitution by the user. Through an ethnographic research and a performance/literary analysis, this paper, interrogates the Akan patriarchal power construction which takes advantage of the fluidity of text. The paper investigates this cultural phenomenon by examining the replication of the tradit...

The Akans in West Africa have their own approach towards the structures of the narrative, and they make a very meaningful contribution towards the beauty of the universal concept of narratology. Using a qualitative approach, ethnographic instruments, to be precise, and using literary stylistics as a means of analysing the text, the author found out...

The fluidity of the text allows a mode of textual constitution by the user. Through an ethnographic research and a performance/literary analysis, this paper, interrogates the Akan patriarchal power construction which takes advantage of the fluidity of text. The paper investigates this cultural phenomenon by examining the replication of the traditio...

This paper investigates the academic implication of Western influence on the study of Ghanaian oral literature and the extent to which literature in Ghana is “indigenized”, especially in the area of drama as addressed in Nana Yaw Asare’s Ananse in the Land of the Idiots. As the iron walls of Metropolitan English begin to show cracks, there is now a...

The last two decades have seen African countries adopt a new security approach through the activities of regional economic communities (RECs) and the African Union’s (AU) African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). This article argues that despite progress in conflict prevention and the promotion of peace, defence and security through the APSA...

The period from 1992 saw Ghana, under pressure from both internal and external sources, embark on the transition to democratic rule. Despite the strides, an issue that has the potential to undermine Ghana’s liberal democratic credentials has centred on the process of political party financing. The purpose of this paper is to analysehow the existing...

The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in tertiary education in Ghana. The prevailing consensus is that universities play a crucial role in development by making it possible to generate human capital in key areas such as health, agriculture, and engineering, also contributing to the attainment self-sufficiency. Whilst contributing to capa...

The general impression in Africa is that social sciences have very little to do with development. This is the challenge this article confronts: that development is a comprehensive concept and all disciplines have a role to play. The author demonstrates this by following the construction of the traffic lights on the campus of KNUST and the anthropol...

Many African countries well-endowed with natural resources are taking measures to improve the management of these resources and ensure that these resources contribute to their socioeconomic development. A policy that has taken center stage is what is called local content policy. This article examines the local content policy that has been adopted b...