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International Education Week 2025: Republic of Ghana
Each November the UR community "meets another culture" here on campus. The 2025 International Education Week focuses in on the Republic of Ghana
Resources on Ghana
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Country Watch - Ghana: Country Review
CountryWatch is an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools, libraries and individuals needing up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world. -
World Factbook: Ghana
Brief profile and statistics of every country in the world collected by the CIA.
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Access World News - Ghana
Access World News allows you to search for articles from thousands of US and global news sources. This link will take you to the news sources from Ghana.
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Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
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ISBN: 9781414448824Publication Date: 2009-05-12 -
Country Studies
In-depth analysis of of the historical, social, political and governmental institutions and systems of countries throughout the world. -
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana
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Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV in Africa, rights-based health interventions have sought to tackle the epidemic by bringing together, educating, and 'empowering' queer African communities. Gore argues that queer Ghanaian men are not benefiting from development's turn to sexual health and sexual rights. Instead, HIV and other sexual rights-based initiatives operate through neoliberal paradigms that reinforce class divides and de-politicize queer struggle. These dynamics are further shaping and shaped by the politicization of homophobia within the contemporary Ghanaian state. Gore combines original ethnography, documentary analysis, and the examination of development and global health data to connect the struggle for queer liberation in Ghana to broader trajectories of capitalist transformation and crisis and the afterlives of colonialism. In doing so, Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights offers fascinating insights into the political economy of sexuality and global development for scholars, activists, and policymakers seeking to understand and address sexual injustice and oppression, both in Africa and beyond. The open access edition of this book was made possible through the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).
ISBN: 9780472057023Publication Date: 2024-10-10 -
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
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In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president and prime minister of Ghana. Although James wrote it in the immediate post-independence period around 1958, he did not publish it until nearly twenty years later, when he added a series of his own letters, speeches, and articles from the 1960s. Although Nkrumah led the revolution, James emphasizes that it was a popular mass movement fundamentally realized by the actions of everyday Ghanaians. Moreover, James shows that Ghana's independence movement was an exceptional moment in global revolutionary history: it moved revolutionary activity to the African continent and employed new tactics not seen in previous revolutions. Featuring a new introduction by Leslie James, an unpublished draft of C. L. R. James's introduction to the 1977 edition, and correspondence, this definitive edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution offers a revised understanding of Africa's shaping of freedom movements and insight into the possibilities for decolonial futures.
ISBN: 9781478006220Publication Date: 2022-04-01 -
Performing Sustainability in West Africa
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This book discusses the role of cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including performance, video, theatre, community arts and cultural heritage. Based on ethnographic field research in local communities, the book presents findings on current debates of cultural sustainability in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Benin. It provides a unique perspective connecting cultural studies, conflict studies and practical peacebuilding approaches through the arts. The first part pays particular attention to aspects of social cohesion and the circumstances of internally displaced persons e. g. caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria. The second part focuses on cultural policy issues and challenges in the context of sustainable development, investigating participatory approaches and bottom-up processes, the role of governments and civil society, as well as performing arts organizations and universities in policy making and implementation processes. Performing Sustainability in West Africa presents research results and new methods on the role of artistic and cultural practices in conflict situations as well as current debates in cultural policy for researchers, academics, NGOs and students in cultural studies, sustainable development studies and African studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003261025, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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"From Tamale to Paris, Hong Kong to Texas and back to Ouagadougou, this collection of scholarly chapters, poetry and personal essays theorizes the lives of African women and people of marginalized genders on the continent and the diaspora. The book is an important intervention in conversations on social movements and their convergence with digital media and other praxis tools. The contributors bring a refreshing perspective to discourses on African feminists' agency and how this manifests in their organizing in the physical world and in the digital public sphere. The volume demonstrates the relationships between the struggles of African feminists on the continent and the diaspora charting pathways for African scholars to build coalitions and work toward collective liberation"--Page 4 of cover.
ISBN: 9987753817Publication Date: 2023
Agata Ferretti, Shannon Hubbs, Richard Mawutor Dzikunu, Keymanthri Moodley, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Jonty Wright, & Effy Vayena. (2025). Typology and Ethical Considerations of Digital Health Promotion Tools for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Examples From Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. JMIR Formative Research, 9, Article e54472. https://richmond.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01URICH_INST/10lhjt5/cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_91489bfa3aec45edb2e9aa537aff3dff
Mensah, S. K., Nyantakyi, E. K., Mensah, G. S., Siabi, E. K., Ackerson, N. O. B., Antwi-Agyei, P., Donkor, P., & Siabi, S. E. (2025). Assessing the impact of small-scale mining activities on land use land cover and the sustainability of mining practices in Ghana: A case of the Atiwa East district. Resources Policy, 109, 105719. https://richmond.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01URICH_INST/10lhjt5/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_j_resourpol_2025_105719
Mohammed, W. F. (2023a). Intersectionality in African digital organizing: A Ghanaian perspective. Communication, Culture & Critique, 16(2), 107–109. https://richmond.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01URICH_INST/10lhjt5/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1093_ccc_tcad007
Mohammed, W. F. (2023b). Why we need intersectionality in Ghanaian feminist politics and discourses. Feminist Media Studies, 23(6), 3031–3047. https://richmond.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01URICH_INST/10lhjt5/cdi_proquest_journals_2882166192
Sarpong, G. (2024, September 10). The vanishing guardians of Ghana’s oceans: Exposing the sea turtle poaching crisis. iWatch Africa. https://iwatchafrica.org/2024/09/the-vanishing-guardians-of-ghanas-oceans-exposing-the-sea-turtle-poaching-crisis/
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City Population - GhanaProvides demographic and other information on cities throughout the world.
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Factiva This link opens in a new windowAccess news and company reports, stock quotes, and market information from Dow Jones and Reuters. This database has extensive international news coverage. (Dow Jones)
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Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowSearch for newspaper articles from hundreds of national and regional newspapers, as well as transcripts of television and radio news. (EBSCO)
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International Newsstream This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles from news sources outside of the US and Canada, such as newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and digital-only news sites. (ProQuest)
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Access World News (Historical and Current) This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles from thousands of US and global news sources. It includes some audio and video news sources, as well as traditional newspapers. (Newsbank/Readex)
The 200 Word Project
The 200 Word Project is a joint project from the African Language Program and Geddes Language Center of Boston University. Together they created an audio-visual database of specialized words spoken by native speakers for multiple African languages. According to the project website:
Words were identified based on their applicability to professional fields such as business, medicine, and human rights as well as their ability to facilitate informal conversation and cultural integration.
One of the featured languages of this project is Akan Twi, one of the indigenous languages spoken in Ghana.