Toward a Recovery of Kwame Nkrumah's Liberation Philosophy and the Role of Religious Advocacy in Contemporary Ghana
Author | : Robert Yaw Owusu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Yaw Owusu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Yaw Owusu |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781592213122 |
An attempt to recapture the liberation philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister of Ghana. Owusu seeks to define a theoretical basis on which a modern socio-political and ethical structure for Ghana can be built and offers a paradigm for developing a role of advocacy to the Ghanaian religious edifice. He also strives to recapitulate Ghana's self-dignity, self-realisation and self-subsistence by highlighting the essential assumptions, dimensions and specificities of African personhood.
Author | : Sara J. Fretheim |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498299040 |
In a departure from current theologically-focused scholarship on Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako, this book places him within the wider historical continuum of twentieth-century Ghana and reads him as a leading Christian scholar within the African study of African religions. The book traces a variety of influences and figures within this emerging African discourse in Ghana, including aspects of missions and colonial history and the voices of poets, politicians, prophets, and priests. Locating Bediako within this complex twentieth-century matrix, this intellectual history draws upon his published and key unpublished works, including his first masters and doctoral dissertations on Négritude literature, an abiding influence on his later Christian thought and an essential foundation for interpreting this scholar. This book also “reads” the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture as “text” by Bediako, revealing essential components of his intellectual and spiritual itinerary revealed in the Institute’s community and curriculum. This approach challenges narrowly-focused theological scholarship on Bediako, while highlighting critical methodological divisions between African, Western, confessional, and non-confessional approaches to the study of religion in Africa. In doing so, it highlights the rich complexity of this emerging African discourse and identifies Bediako as a pioneering African Christian intellectual within this wider field.
Author | : Ebenezer Obiri Addo |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761813187 |
Comprises a study of Ghana's first post-colonial prime minister and president Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), focusing on his use of religion in the development of national integration and modernization, among other political goals. The author offers a historical account of religion and politics in Ghana, draws on social, political, and anthropological theories to evaluate Nkrumah's leadership from several different angles, and finally assesses Nkrumah's legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Kofi Buenor Hadjor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136148825 |
First published in 1989. During the days following Kwame Nkrumah's death in 1972, the idea of writing this book first took form. During the past fifteen years, Africa has gone through a major trauma. The events of these years help throw light on the Nkrumah experiment, and underline its continued relevance for Ghana and for Africa.
Author | : Abamfo Ofori Atiemo |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441164944 |
It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies. However, in view of the resilience of religion in the global and local public sphere, it is important to explore how religion can contribute to the promotion and enjoyment of human rights. Based on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Abamfo Ofori Atiemo here establishes a convergence between human rights and local religious and cultural values in African societies. He argues that human rights represent universal 'dream values'. This allows for a cultural embedding of human rights in Ghana and other non-Western societies. He argues that 'dream values' are usually presented in religious language and proclaimed, for example, by prophets and seers or expressed in certain forms of taboo, proverbs or legal norms. He employs the concept of inculturation, adaptation of the way Church teachings are presented to non-Christian cultures, as a hermeneutical tool for developing a model to understand the encounter between universal human rights and local cultures. Offering a new model for explaining the relation between religion and human rights, Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana offers a novel perspective on the links between global trends and local cultures underpinned by strong currents of religious ideas.
Author | : Kwame Botwe-Asamoah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134000170 |
This study critically synthesizes and analyses the relationship between Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural philosophy and policies as an African-centered paradigm for the post-independence African revolution. It also argues for the relevance of his theories and politics in today's Africa.