scholarly journals Diagnosing ALS: the Gold Coast criteria and the role of EMG

2022 ◽  
pp. practneurol-2021-003256
Author(s):  
Martin R Turner
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast

Gbe and other West African sources of Suriname creole semantic structures

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Huttar ◽  
James Essegbey ◽  
Felix K. Ameka
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Specific Identification ◽  
Single Substrate ◽  
Substrate Source ◽  
Potential Substrate

This paper reports on ongoing research on the role of various kinds of potential substrate languages in the development of the semantic structures of Ndyuka (Eastern Suriname Creole). A set of 100 senses of noun, verb, and other lexemes in Ndyuka were compared with senses of corresponding lexemes in three kinds of languages of the former Slave Coast and Gold Coast areas, and immediately adjoining hinterland: (a) Gbe languages; (b) other Kwa languages, specifically Akan and Ga; (c) non-Kwa Niger-Congo languages. The results of this process provide some evidence for the importance of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Suriname creoles, but also for the importance of other languages, and for the areal nature of some of the collocations studied, rendering specific identification of a single substrate source impossible and inappropriate. These results not only provide information about the role of Gbe and other languages in the formation of Ndyuka, but also give evidence for effects of substrate languages spoken by late arrivals some time after the “founders” of a given creole-speaking society. The conclusions are extrapolated beyond Suriname to creole genesis generally.

Remembering Korle Bu Hospital: Biomedical Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Golden Jubilee Souvenir

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 193-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
The Past ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
Anniversary Celebration

On the evening of 8 October 1973, a group of physicians led a watchnight ceremony on the campus of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. At midnight, Dr. Portuphy-Lamptey, the Chief Medical Administrator, pulled a lanyard to raise an official flag inaugurating the Hospital's Golden Jubilee Anniversary. The next day, the Ghanaian Commissioner for Health, Lieutenant Colonel A.H. Selormey, unveiled an anniversary plaque that thanked and praised the hospital staff who had worked at Korle Bu over the past fifty years. In a speech to assembled dignitaries, Selormey appealed to Ghanaians to use the Golden Jubilee Celebration as a means of arousing a “full consciousness” of Ghana's “great heritage.” In the months that followed, the 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee organized a series of events to commemorate the role of the institution in the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana, including a formal dinner during which the assembled guests joined together to sing Korle Bu Oyiwala doŋŋ, a popular tribute to the hospital sung in the local language of Ga (see Figure 1). Several months later, at the closing ceremony, the Committee unveiled a statue of Gordon Guggisberg, the British governor credited with building the hospital, an iconic image that is still standing in front of the hospital today.

Cocoa, Marriage, Labour and Land in Ghana: Some Matrilineal and Patrilineal Perspectives

Africa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Akua Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Economy ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Cocoa Production ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Future Direction

There is evidence to show that the institution of marriage, particularly customary law marriage, has served as an important framework for the extraction of conjugal labour as a factor in cocoa production since its introduction in the Gold Coast in 1879. This was necessitated by the abolition in 1874 of slavery and pawning, and the consequent need to replace an illegitimate and coercive system with a legitimate one. By virtue of a pre-existing customary obligation placed on women to assist their husbands in their economic pursuits, the marriage institution provided a basis for this transition. It has been argued, however, that some forms of economic relationship in Ghana revolve around expectations of reciprocity, and that human beings are not altogether altruistic in their dispensation of labour. Hence, women who provide labour support to their husbands expect to be rewarded with land or cocoa farms. In this article, I argue that the pivotal role of cocoa in the rural economy intensified the use of conjugal labour and the consequent expectation of land by wives from their husbands, resulting in a situation in which cocoa, marriage, labour and land rights eventually evolved as ‘institutional quadruplets’. Through case studies extracted from field work conducted in six communities in the Brong Ahafo, Western and Volta Regions of Ghana I demonstrate the continued interplay between these forces in modern times, and outline some policy-centred concerns for the future direction of the cocoa industry.

scholarly journals Fine-scale spatial and seasonal partitioning among large sharks and other elasmobranchs in south-eastern Queensland, Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Taylor ◽  
Wayne Sumpton ◽  
Tony Ham
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Seasonal Abundance ◽  
Rate Data ◽  
Numerous Species ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Gill Net ◽  
Hammerhead Sharks

Our understanding of the ecological role of larger elasmobranchs is limited by a lack of information on their spatial and seasonal abundance. Analysis of 14 years of gill-net catch data in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, revealed that the species composition of large sharks and other elasmobranchs significantly differed among beaches and seasons. Spinner sharks (Carcharhinus brevipinna) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp.) comprised nearly half the catch of all elasmobranchs. Although the distribution of these sharks overlapped, spatial variation existed in their abundance. Spinner sharks characterised the catch at Sunshine Coast beaches, whereas the catch at Gold Coast beaches was dominated by hammerhead sharks. Seasonal differences in elasmobranch community structure were also apparent, driven largely by a lower abundance of many species during the winter and the predominance of species such as spinner sharks and hammerheads in spring and summer. The present study provides the first quantitative data for numerous species of Carcharhiniformes in south-eastern Queensland and demonstrates that analysis of catch-rate data can improve our understanding of how larger sharks partition resources.

Faces of the Dead

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead

This chapter reviews the most visible material manifestation of funerary culture on the Gold Coast and in its forest hinterland before the twentieth century: commemorative terracotta sculptures of the dead. The chapter notes that the Akan and their neighbours were parsimonious when it came to artistic engagement with the dead. Unlike in many societies, from ancient Egypt to medieval Christian Europe and on to modern Mexico, death in Ghana has not left a powerful visual residue. Even within West Africa, the Akan region is notable for the absence of art that served to mediate with ancestors and the spirit world: in contrast to cultural zones to the west, north and east, it had, for example, no masking tradition. The chapter looks at the role of the terracottas within the wider Akan funerary complex. It focuses on the evocative sculptures, but the aim, in the spirit of Sir Thomas Browne's reflections on ancient British burial urns, is that they illuminate something of that broader history of death.

Transatlantic Networks of Early African Pentecostalism: The Role of Thomas Brem Wilson, 1901–1929

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-236
Author(s):  
David Killingray
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Faith Healing ◽  
Apostolic Church

Proto-Pentecostalist ideas in Britain owe a debt to the activities of the Gold Coast businessman Thomas Brem Wilson (1865–1929), who settled in London in 1901. His recently discovered diaries and personal papers detail his commercial interests and activities in West Africa and his relationships with a number of fellow Africans living in London. The diaries also record Brem Wilson's transatlantic involvement with J. A. Dowie's faith healing Catholic Apostolic Church in London and Zion City, Illinois, which he visited in 1904; evangelistic work among his African friends in London and in the Gold Coast; and his personal and financial relations with Alexander Boddy. In 1908 Brem Wilson helped found the first black-led Pentecostal church in Britain, where he was a pastor for the rest of his life.

The Ashanti Rubber Trade with the Gold Coast in the Eighteen-Nineties

Africa ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Arhin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Adequate Explanation ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oral Information ◽  
Economic Outlook

IntroductionThis study of the Ashanti rubber trade with the Gold Coast in the closing years of the last century explores further a theme with which I have for some time now been occupied. The theme is the nineteenth-century background to Ashanti economic development in the present century. In an earlier study of Ashanti trade with Hausa, Mande, and Mossi caravans I suggested that Ashanti experience with the kola trade provided a significant foundation for the successful introduction of cocoa cultivation early in this century, and that an adequate explanation of the latter requires a knowledge of the tools and the social framework of kola production and also of the organization of kola distribution from the areas of production to the kola markets in modern north-central Ghana in the previous century (Arhin, 1970). The rubber trade was complementary to Ashanti trade in the north, and a close look at it should throw more light on the economic outlook and organizational methods developed in the previous century which account for the eagerness with which the Ashanti took to cocoa cultivation and the success they made of its distribution before the era of the lorry. Secondly, there was an interesting link between the rubber trade and the domestic slave trade with Samory which presents the Alymany in the role of a stimulant to the Ashanti economy; one tends to think of him solely in terms of his military-politico activities. Thirdly, the Government of the Gold Coast, which took a keen interest in the rubber trade, sent officials to observe its production and sale in the interior so that written reports may be compared with oral information. After a brief note on changes in the basis of, and the personnel involved in, Ashanti trade with the European establishments on the Gold Coast in the nineteenth century, I shall examine the beginning, growth, and importance of the rubber trade; the categories of traders and the different modes of rubber collection; and lastly, the organization by which rubber reached the exporting agencies. The emphasis throughout will be on those features of the rubber trade which are significant for twentieth-century developments.

TELLING THE TALE OF OSEI BONSU: AN ESSAY ON THE MAKING OF ASANTE ORAL HISTORY

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom McCaskie
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The Core ◽  
Proper Role

ABSTRACTThis paper is about the Asante perception and understanding of Asante history as expressed in the apae or ‘praise songs’ of Asantehene (King of the Asante) Osei Tutu Kwame, known as Osei Bonsu (1804–23). As such, it offers an indigenous portrait of kingship and the expectations and behaviours attaching to it in Asante thought. The core of the paper is centred on the role of Osei Tutu Kwame as a leader in war, against the Fante of the southern Gold Coast in 1806–07 and against the Abron of Gyaman (today in the eastern Côte d'Ivoire) in 1818–19. Both campaigns are interpreted from the point of view of Asante thinking about their own historical goals and understandings, and of the fit and proper role of an Asantehene in such matters. Throughout, extensive oral historical materials are used in conjunction with the apae, and a rich range of European sources are deployed as a counterpoint. The paper's claim to originality is that it offers an Asante view, at once intellectual and ideological, of their own constructions of their past and of the nature of their history as they themselves chose to understand it.

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