01819nam a22001817a 4500 140820b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789988647964 CB197.I34 Lauer, Helen Identity meets nationality: voices from the humanities. / Helen Lauer Legon-Accra: Sub-Saharan, 2011. xiv, 297p.: 23cm. Includes references. Contents: 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 i 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 challenges 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. Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah. Anderson, Jemima Asabea. lcc BK 3600 11100 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 LL 2014-08-20 0 CB197.I34 432/13 2014-08-20 00:00:00 1 2014-08-20 BK