http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1513 2026-04-14T23:29:46Z 2026-04-14T23:29:46Z Yayoh, Wilson K. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6343 2021-11-01T10:30:26Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is in a flag? the Swastika and Togoland and nationalism Yayoh, Wilson K. Flags were important symbols in the acquisition of colonies in Africa since 1884. Karl Peters and two colleagues went to Zanzibar in 1884 with ‘a number of German flags and treaty forms and hoisted the flags at Mbuzini’. In 1886, the British governor in the Gold Coast Colony distributed flags to Krepi chiefs who signed the Krepi bond of 1886. This article adds to our knowledge on the appropriation of symbols in colonial situations in Africa and elucidates the influence of Nazi ideology on the Togoland Congress in its fight against the integration of the Trust Territory into the Gold Coast. The flying of the Swastika by the Togoland Congress was a controversial incident which has not received attention from scholars but which offers an opportunity to re-examine the political views of Togolanders from a new perspective. Most scholars who worked on British Togoland focused their research mainly on post World War 1 histories of the region. Yet most of the historical processes of the post-World War 1 era actually started in the second half of the nineteenth century with the formal German colonization of the territory 26p:, ill.

2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Alidza, Matthew Q. Amlor, Martin Q. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6342 2021-11-01T10:19:38Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Searching and picking the rotten grain from within: Conflicts as barriers of Africa’s development Alidza, Matthew Q.; Amlor, Martin Q. Language has remained the basic tool for human communication and social interaction expressed through various forms such as music (songs) and drum language. Ethnicity, defined as group identity based on linguistic differential, is a logical product of language, hence the claim that language is the basis for ethnicity. With the multiplicity of languages in Africa, most of which are unintelligible to speakers of other languages, there is the tendency to “distance” and exclude others and regard them as people who do not “belong”. To capture this heterogeneity, we build on the theory of “ethnic distance”. The theory is based on the assumption that for as long as Africa remains ethnically heterogeneous, a poorly managed situation such as bad governance is likely to marginalize others thus resulting in chaos. The purpose of this paper, which is based on a random sampling of conflict zones in Africa, is to examine how language and ethnicity have influenced social, political and economic activities in Africa and how they have affected the overall development of the continent. It also seeks to take the position that African countries, over fifty years after independence, should rather look within the continent and accept the fact, albeit painful, that Africans can largely be held accountable for the economic deprivation and retardation of the continent 8p:, ill.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Yayoh, Wilson Kwame http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6341 2021-11-01T10:10:40Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Resurgence of multi-party rule in Ghana, 1990-2004 a historical review Yayoh, Wilson Kwame Ghana's political history since independence was full of "cases of alternations between authoritarianism and democracy"1. Democratic experiments in 1969 and 1979 were truncated by military takeovers making Ghana's political history a chequered one. It was against this background that many people were apprehensive about the re-introduction of democratic rule in 1992. But as things turned out the Fourth Republic of Ghana stood out clearly as a true democratic transition in Ghana. For one thing, it marked a remarkable departure from the incidence of coups and counter coups that punctuated the political history of Ghana in the immediate post- independence period. It was also significant because it marked the transition from a long period of military rule and dictatorship to democracy. Most significantly, the period witnessed a historic transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another. In the light of this some people refer fondly to the Fourth Republic as the 'second independence of Ghana This paper takes a historical view of Ghana's transition to multi-party democracy from 1990 to 2004. 24p:, ill.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilson, Alex J. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6340 2021-11-01T10:04:08Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Personhood, human rights and health among the Akan and Igbo of West Africa Wilson, Alex J. Many African countries are now abreast with the need to link healthcare and human rights, but the individual factor to ensure this is missing. It has become imperative that health policy-makers reflect on the health of individuals within the community in order to achieve a holistic healthcare delivery. Thus, the patients’ inputs and their cultural values are invaluable for community health. This essay attempts to identify and examine the relationship between healthcare and human rights based on the Akan and Igbo (African societies) concepts of personhood. The main argument of this essay is that the concept of personhood, as exists in the aforementioned indigenous societies, provides the framework for understanding human rights and healthcare based on cultural relativism. The essay identifies some of the discourses associated with human rights and healthcare in the western world and those of the Akan and Igbo 16p:, ill.

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