...Chris Bosch Ghana Country report Professor Shuman 12-10-15 “Ghana” What does one think of when they think of Ghana? of sprawling untouched grasslands lands and packs of healthy animals, which bring a healthy flow of tourism into the lands? or a bustling modern city with all the amenities one could dream of? In reality, Ghana is a struggling country in regards to their health infrastructure and economy. There are many reasons as to why Ghana is in the state it is in today. From colonialism to the rather recent gaining of their independence, Ghana is a relatively new country and it is no surprise that they are currently experiencing growing pains. Because of these growing pains it has resulted in a domino like effect, influencing all facets of the nation. A clearer picture one should paint of the country of Ghana is a nation divided between modern and old, rich and poverty stricken, Westerners and natives. These demographics are essential in the dividing of the country for the issues it faces today are complex and need a well planned all reaching solution to curb the current trends in Ghana today. With that being said, Ghana is a country in the process of modernizing their current platforms/infrastructure but with this growth still come a variety of healthcare issues and diseases such as HIV and Malaria that need attention if this trends are to be curbed. Before one can delve further into the current health issues plaguing the nation of Ghana it is imperative to have...
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...Daryl Smith Introduction to African-American Studies March 23, 2014 Professor Yeboah Midterm Paper: Essay Questions 1. Describe (3) three African (Ancient or Medieval) civilizations that pre-date enslavement? Kush, Axum, and Ghana are three Ancient African civilizations that pre-date enslavement. The Kush civilization started in 1700 BC, where it reached its first peak. Its second peak dated to 1500 BC. The Kingdom of the Kush was also known as Nubia. It is located south of Egypt and was built at the bottom of the mountains, beginning at the Nile River. The Kush kingdom was exceptionally wealthy with many natural resources. They had gold mines, iron ore, and rich soil. Their soil was rich due to the ample amount of rainfall they had all year long, which kept all of the natural resources fresh and growing. Many kingdoms were jealous of the Kush’s wealth and prosperity, and wanted to take it over, but the Kush did now allow it to happen. The “Iron Age” was when iron ore was at its peak and every kingdom wanted it to make weapons and tools. Kush was the center of the iron trade in ancient Africa. Burnt wood was needed to produce iron from ore and because wood was running out, the Kush had to trade other goods. The Kush was the reason for the Trans- Saharan Trade Route. In 750 CE, the Kush used camels and camel trains to cross the sand. They knew it was a miserable and dangerous journey, but knew it could be done. Attention was then turned to trade with West...
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...HRM Issues Based on Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions in Ghana Alison C Holt Saint Leo University Abstract This paper will contain information concerning the challenges human resource management faces when the organization decides to go global. Human resource management faces many global issues; however, this paper will look at Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory in the comparison of Ghana and the United States. We will look at three of Hofstede’s five dimensions and see how Ghana is rated to each of the theories. The first dimension, Individualism verses collectivism, focuses on cultures in terms relationships of individuals, families and extended families (Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013). The second dimension, Power distance, focuses on power relationships within a culture. The last dimension, Masculinity verses femininity, focuses on gender roles within culture (Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013). In the 21st Century, many organizations have reached out into the global market due to changes in technology, economics and social responsibility. Therefore, interactions between businesses in different countries have become routine. When a company expands globally, new challenges arise due to different laws, customs and characteristics (Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013). International laws and customs pose numerous challenges for human resource professionals, for example, HRM must supply an adequate amount of top managers with global experience, which is necessary...
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...contribute to my education, career, and personal goals. I strongly feel that studying abroad will be a powerful asset to my major of human services along with providing me the tools I need to excel academically and make me a better person. I have reached a point in my life where I want to be surrounded by people with the same goals of getting a great education and putting it to use is something I look forward to. I’ve found that my ability to interact well with others and the enjoyment of helping and networking with people has made me the person I am today. I have chosen Ghana for a particular reason. I would like to visit the school of GWCNAC which stands for Ghana women/children and North American collective. The program was formed in August of 2009 and now has over 700 students. The program provides services that I want to participate in personally as well as an international human services worker. The services our aimed at eliminating poverty by providing education along with health resources to prevent starving and diseases which will improve the quality of life for the families and the children. I was overwhelmed with the stories I read about concerning the young girls in Ghana because there is a need for increase gender equality. I believe that my education and personal involvement with these girls will be essential to help raise strong women. I can’t compare my childhood or my life to theirs but there are some similar connections that we share as girls...
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...In light of this, this research is aimed at investigating the effect of male prostitution on national development and national security in Ghana OBJECTIVES General objectives • The general objective of this research is to examine the effects and impact of boys prostitution on national security of Ghana. Specific objectives • Causes of male prostitution in Cape Coast • Impact of male prostitution on boys involved • To find out measures to curb male prostitution in Ghana RESEARCH QUESTIONS • What is the level of awareness of male prostitution in Ghana • What are the causes of male prostitution in cape coast • What are the effects and impact of male prostitution on national development and national security • What measures are needed to curb male prostitution in Ghana? JUSTIFICATION FOR...
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...CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE There are many ways that people are stereotyped such as belonging to certain race, nationality, and gender. Living in the world today you would think that people are Knowledgeable about certain issues and not stereotype others but the fact is that when one person or groups of people are stereotyped, that common perception never goes away unless people decide to change their implicit and explicit attitudes about that group. In today’s society, stereotype is now common than ever. I’d beg to differ that stereotype is based on the lack of education but I think that is based on people’s insecurities, ignorance and behavior patterns. It is easy to stereotype others based on their appearance, religion, and heritage. I was born and raised in Ghana, a country in Africa, where the entire population is majority blacks. Growing up in such culture I did not experience nor was I never a subject to stereotype. Even with people from different countries coming into Ghana to experience the culture, no one of them ever put me in a certain category. I would often ask myself if I was naive to realize what was happening around me but the truth of the matter is stereotype was not common in Ghana. All of this change when I moved to the United States of America for my seventh grade year. I can remember being nervous for my first day of middle school. As I got unto the bus, my main thoughts were would I make any friends and would I be able to comprehend what I’m taught...
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...War II, Africans have embarked on the massive utilisation of their environmental resources for improving their quality of life and that of their global business partners (Frobel et al. 1988; French 2000). In spite of the abundance of these resources, local communities, predominantly smallholder farmers and pastoralists, whose production systems are based on Traditional Environmental Knowledge Systems (TEKS), are now unable to meet their basic needs, sustain environmental productivity and even have an equitable share of the global wealth (ADALCO 1990). The predominance of international trade over local needs fostered, among other things, specialisation in spatial production and exchange of goods and services on a global scale, what evolved today as theories of Absolute and Comparative Advantage. Consequently, it is evident that in some geographical areas, natural resources are still sustainably utilised, while in others there is evidence of environmental degradation or inefficient utiliatization (Stebbing 1935; Timberlake 1985; Blaikie 1989; Juma and Ford 1992; Rugumamu 1993; Boyce 2002). Yes! The resources are available in Africa; but in the light of some challenges Africa has a large quantity of natural resources including oil, diamonds, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, copper, bauxite, silver, petroleum and cacao beans, and even woods and tropical fruits. According to the 2012 BP Statistical Energy Survey, Africa had proved oil reserves of 132.438 billion...
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...FAIRTRADE PRODUCTS Cadbury is holding a party for the launch of its new Fairtrade-certified Dairy Milk bars. The event is being held on 31st August in Bournville, the original birthplace of Cadbury; at the ‘Cadbury World’ museum. Press are invited to be among the first people to try the new Dairy Milk and to hear from Cadbury’s Chief Executive, Todd Stitzer, about his travels to Ghana. This will include a presentation of video-casts to show the contributions Cadbury is currently making to Ghanian cocoa farmers and their communities. As part of the event, Cadbury will also be unveiling the new Fairtrade exhibition at its museum, which aims to teach visitors why Fairtrade is important and how Cadbury is helping Ghanaian farmers as part of the Cadbury Cocoa Partnership (CCP) initiative. In March this year, Cadbury announced its plans to achieve Fairtrade certification for Cadbury’s Dairy Milk products by joining forces with the Fairtrade Foundation. The reasons behind this groundbreaking move were to further improve living standards and conditions for cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, as well as create a sustainable supply of high quality cocoa for Cadbury. Cadbury’s Chief Executive, Todd Stitzer, says that after the the launch party, the value of Fairtrade chocolate sales in Britain will leap from £45m to £225m. Chief Executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, Harriet Lamb, said, “We're delighted to have the opportunity to certify Cadbury Dairy Milk, enabling all...
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...Life in the Global Era. A look into the daily life of a businesswoman who works in New York would tell you that a lot of things that she wears and does have developed over time. After waking up and showering, she puts on a designer sweater and a pair of khaki pants. She brews and drinks a cup of coffee and eats a banana before heading off to work which involves meeting with other business professionals and making business transactions as well. Each of these products followed a complex process from a different part of the world to take its place in this woman’s morning routine. Simply put, the sweater and the khakis for all we know could have been manufactured somewhere in Australia, knitted and sewn (as in the khakis) into a pattern by an Italian designer. The coffee beans used to make coffee maybe grew on a plant in the high mountains of Kenya. In essence, a lot of the things we do in our modern society are connected to various places outside our current place of residence. Over the past centuries, many instances of advancement have been observed. These instances of progression due to technological improvement have increased interaction and connectivity among people all over the world. From black and white TVs and cameras to coloured ones, from hand-woven fans to electrical fans, from smoke signals and couriers to phones, telephones and the internet as means of communication, from cowries to minted paper currencies in trade. It becomes indisputable that the common saying...
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...TITLE: Satellite Communication in Ghana-challenges and prospects Introduction Busy Internet is a Ghanaian ISP that uses satellite connectivity to bring Internet to West Africans. The operations of this ISP illustrate the reliability, versatility and efficiency of, VSAT, (Very Small Aperture Terminal) networks in delivering fast broadband Internet services. This paper discusses technical, economic and regulatory issues relating to satellite networks as a means of bringing Internet to Ghanaians, and the challenges confronting the country’s National Communication Authority and the Ministry of Communications. Waking up to the Call Satellite communication was not an integral part of the Ghanaian communications system until the early 1980s. Prior to 1981 communication within Ghana and between Ghana and the outside world was not very effective. The country relied on aging Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) Lines for voice, and terrestrial microwave networks for radio, and television. International voice, video and data communications links were limited, with most of such communications services operated by the government run telecommunications monopoly. The construction of a satellite earth station at Kuntunse in the Eastern region of Ghana in 1981, and related communication reforms of the early 1990s marked a dramatic shift towards greater use of satellite communications technology over the next two decades. Satellite earth stations and connecting equipment were installed by private...
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...Introduction Ghana has a diverse cultural, ethnic, religious and economical background which makes generalization about gender relations and their consequences for women and children’s access to resources, decision making and status in society extremely difficult. Divergence of experiences has been further widened by regionally distorted historical development and biased development policies. Ghana’s population is about 22 million, includes over 90 different ethnic groups. Among these the Akan, Ewe, Mole Dagbani and Ga-Adangbe are dominant. Different ethnic groups are characterized by a variety of kinship systems with different implications for access to resources and decision making power by gender. The Akan, who are from the southern part of Ghana, are the largest amongst all ethnic groups, and matrilineal inheritance system is very dominant. Most other ethnic groups, in the North, but also the East, are patrilineal. The Ga, who are concentrated around Greater Accra, are somewhat known in having bilateral inheritance and kinship structures. Matrilineal systems may give women greater access to resources outside marriage than patrilineal systems, but they are characterized by a weaker nuclear household offering little economic security to women. Matrilineal systems do not necessarily imply significantly greater access to resources or higher status of women. There is extreme diversity and complexity of household forms as well as of the organization of the household economy....
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...DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES LECTURE by: Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia Visiting Professor of Economic Governance Central University College Ghana MARCH 25, 2014 1 Mr. Chairman Pro-Chancellor for Central University Members of the Board of Regents President J.A. Kufuor Members of the Council of State Members of Parliament Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corps Representatives of Political Parties Captains of Industry and Finance Distinguished Invited Guests Faculty Students Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to begin by thanking all of you who have taken time out of your busy schedules to make the journey to this beautiful and serene campus this evening. For me, it is an honor and a privilege to be delivering my first public lecture as visiting professor at Central University College on a topic that is literally on the minds of most Ghanaians today. What can we do about what appears to be a perpetually declining value of our currency, the cedi? I would like to say from the outset that this subject is very much one of economics and not politics. It is therefore important that we stick to 2 the empirical evidence and data1 in reaching conclusions. I am hoping that at the end of this lecture, some light would be thrown on the issue for a dispassionate and nonpartisan discussion by all stakeholders that would inure to the benefit of Ghana. Mr. Chairman, the exchange rate is a price, just like the price of any good or service. It is the price of one currency relative...
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...Case Study 1 – Debating the Merits of Globalisation Q1.) After studying the case study, it is clear that there are a number of drawbacks to globalisation. Hill (2014), describes globalisation as the merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge ‘global marketplace’. Firstly, the case study argues that globalisation has had detrimental effects on the natural environment. An increase in transport between countries due to international trade has resulted in increased CO2 emissions. Huwart et al (2013) argues that the aeroplane has been the main mode of transport to characterise globalisation, seeing an increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 86% between 1990 and 2004 due to aviation. However, globalisation is not only effecting the natural environment, it’s also using up it’s finite resources more quickly. For example, China joined the world trade organisation in December 2001. By 2008, it’s coal use had doubled (Tverberg, 2013). The next drawbacks according to the case study are: local job losses (leading to devastation in local economies), exploited workers in LEDC’s and child labour. Globalisation transfers jobs from developed countries to less developed countries – known as offshoring. Cavusgil et al (2013:76) defines offshoring as “the relocation of manufacturing and other value-chain activities to cost effective locations abroad.” E.g. In the US, the % of US citizens with jobs began to drop around roughly the same time China joined the WTO...
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...III) In 1944, a 16-year-old Angelou gave birth to a son by a boy in high school. A) After giving birth to her son, she was working a number of jobs to support herself and her child. B) Later in the 50s, Angelou started preforming at clubs and on Broadway C) She then landed a role in a the famous play of Porgy and Bess IV) Angelou traveled out of the country to different places. A) Angelou had moved to Ghana for a short period of time and had a job at University of Ghana. B) After years in Ghana Angelou returned to the united states C) She was influence by her friend James Baldwin to publish some of her work D) This later result in her published book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” V) Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend of Angelou's A) Martin Luther King was assassinated on her birthday April 4 in 1968. B) Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years after kings’ death. C) Each year on her birthday she would send flowers to martins wife until her death in 2006 D) She was married twice to two white men Enistasious Tosh Angelos 1951-1954 and Paul du Feu 1973-1981. E) Maya Angelou died May 28, 2014 in Winston Salem, North Carolina at the age of...
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