02384cam a2200337 a 4500 8928790 20210414114237.0 110614s2011 gh ab b 000 0 eng 2011342830 9789988647964 9988647964 (OCoLC)ocn729343956 (OCoLC)729343956 (NNC)8928790 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP TEU lcode CB197 .I34 Identity meets nationality :Voices from the humanities. / voices from the humanities edited by Helen Lauer, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Jemima Asabea Anderson. Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, c2011. xiv, 297 p.: ill. (some col.), maps.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introduction -- The Humanities and the idea of national identity -- Empiricalism: The Empirical character of an African philosophy -- Metaphors of death in akan -- Political nicknaming in Ghana: social representations of democracy achieved through conceptual blending -- "Do not rob us of ourselves": language and nationalism in colonial Ghana -- Language use in education in minority language areas: the case of Logba -- The Dilemma of identity for African American English: a case of African language influence? -- Constructing a national language as a vehicle for national identity -- Material culture and ethnic identity: the case of the Krobo, Ghana -- Negotiating pre- colonial history and future democracy: Kwasi Wiredu and his critics -- Identity crises: constructions of national identity in the poetry of equatorial Guinea -- 'No sweetness here' for 'our sister', La Noire? Gender empowerment in the short stories of sembene Ousmane and Ama Ata Aidoo -- Constructing national consciousness in Russian literature: some lessons for the African milieu -- Africa's renaissance and the challenge of culture: the failures of NEPAD -- The music of Ephraim Amu and Isaac Daniel Riverson: 'the known ' and 'the not known' Ghanaian composers -- The Performing arts: identity and the new social paradigm. National characteristics. Humanities. Lauer, Helen. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah. Anderson, Jemima Asabea. lcc BK 20110914 c sds12 MPS 3160 10660 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2014-07-17 0 CB197 .I34 7683/110/14 2014-07-17 00:00:00 1 2014-07-17 BK