scholarly journals Strategies and Initiatives in Acculturation: Voices from Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1065-1079
Author(s):  
Susan Boafo-Arthur ◽  
Dzifa A. Attah ◽  
Ama Boafo-Arthur ◽  
Thomas D. Akoensi
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
African Country ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
International Study ◽  
West African ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Student Affairs Practitioners ◽  
Institutional Strategies ◽  
Respective Host

Culture shock and acculturation are salient aspects of any international study trip. Over the years, many institutions have devised several strategies to help international students transition to life in the host country. However, most of these strategies are insensitive to diverse cultural or country specifics. Drawing from Social Learning Theory, this paper provides narratives from four former students from the West African country of Ghana and how they navigated the process of acculturation in their respective host nations. The narratives discuss their feelings during the study abroad trip, some of the challenges they faced, and personal as well as institutional strategies that aided in ameliorating the experience of culture shock. A few recommendations for Student Affairs Practitioners are also provided.

The Rise and Demise of the Boys’ Company

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-65
Author(s):  
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Military Training ◽  
West African ◽  
Training Institution ◽  
West African Country ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Military

Abstract Graduates of Ghana's defunct Army Boys’ Company, a specialized military training institution for boys, participated to varying degrees in all five successful coups in the West African country. Most significantly, their prominent role in the coups of 1979 and 1981 catapulted them into the heart of the Ghanaian political arena. They thus became political actors; a position with far reaching consequences for the Boys’ Company. Coups in Ghana have received considerable academic attention. However, the focus of this body of literature tended to be on the coup leaders with rarely any attention for the soldiers who facilitate the power seizures by conducting the fighting. This article addresses this lacunae by assessing how the so-called “ex-Boys” radicalized politically, while bringing to the fore their experience at the Army Boys’ Company and in the military. Additionally, the article scrutinizes the conditions that led to demise of the Boys’ Company.

BLAMING THE GODS: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA IN THE NIGERIA–BIAFRA WAR

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS IBEAWUCHI OMENKA
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Causal Explanation ◽  
West African ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
War Rhetoric ◽  
Good For ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Religious War

ABSTRACTThe consensus among many analysts of the Nigeria–Biafra War is that the conflict cannot be reduced to a mono-causal explanation. The tragedy that befell the West African country from 1966 to 1970 was a combination of many factors, which were political, ethnic, religious, social, and economic in nature. Yet the conflict was unduly cast as a religious war between Christians and Muslims. Utilizing newly available archival materials from within and outside Nigeria, this article endeavours to unravel the underlying forces in the religious war rhetoric of the mainly Christian breakaway region and its Western sympathizers. Among other things, it demonstrates that, while the religious war proposition was good for the relief efforts of the international humanitarian organizations, it inevitably alienated the Nigerian Christians and made them unsympathetic to the Biafran cause.

scholarly journals ‘Never say never’: the first successful management of a type A aortic dissection in Liberia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e227511
Author(s):  
Callum Patrick Swift ◽  
Emmanuel Ekyinabah ◽  
Sally Graglia ◽  
Mukhtar Abdulmajeed Adeiza
Keyword(s):  
Aortic Dissection ◽  
African Country ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
West African ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
West African Country ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
The West ◽  
Type A Aortic Dissection ◽  
Resource Limited

The West African country of Liberia ranks as one of the lowest in the world in most measures of health. The diagnosis and management of complex surgical cases such as aortic dissection is extremely challenging, for reasons ranging from lack of diagnostic imaging capabilities to the high resources required for definitive surgical intervention. We present the first known successfully managed case of aortic dissection in the country’s history and with it highlight the challenges faced and a number of lessons learned that are beneficial to anyone working in resource-limited environments.

scholarly journals Molecular Evidence that a Distinct Vibrio cholerae O1 Biotype El Tor Strain in Calcutta May Have Spread to the African Continent

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charu Sharma ◽  
Amit Ghosh ◽  
A. Dalsgaard ◽  
Anita Forslund ◽  
R. K. Ghosh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vibrio Cholerae ◽  
African Country ◽  
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
West African ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
African Continent ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Vibrio Cholerae O1 ◽  
El Tor

We present molecular evidence that a distinct genotype ofVibrio cholerae O1 which appeared in Calcutta, India, in September 1993 and which is characterized by a unique ribotype that is not found in the standardized ribotyping scheme of V. cholerae and that shows a specific pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profile may have spread to the west African country of Guinea-Bissau where it was responsible for an epidemic of cholera which began in October 1994 and continued into 1996.

scholarly journals Mobile Misfortune

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Vigh
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Global South ◽  
West African ◽  
West African Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
End Point

This article examines how the emergent cocaine trade in Bissau, the capital of the west African country of Guinea-Bissau, has become entangled with and trickled into the life worlds, hopes and fears of the city’s many impoverished young men. The article is divided into two parts. While the first part looks at the predicament of youth and the hope of migration in Bissau, the second illuminates the anguish of deportation and the despair of being forcefully ‘displaced back home.’ Following in the footsteps of the young men that seek to navigate the cocaine trade, in order to obtain better lives for themselves and their families, it shows how involvement in the cocaine trade is both a curse and a catalyst. Though trading the drug may facilitate migration and mobility, generating social being and worth in the process, it is an activity that is haunted by the threat of deportation and the termination of the mobility it enables. This article, thus, looks at the motives and manners in which young men in Bissau become caught up in transnational flows of cocaine. It shows how motion is emotively anchored and affectively bound: tied to and directed toward a feeling of worth and realisation of being, and how migration from the global South often has negative potentiality as an end-point via the ascription of illegality and condition of deportability that shade it.

English in Sierra Leone

English Today ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Conteh-Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
African Country ◽  
West African ◽  
West African Country

A description of the language as used in this West African country and a consideration of its status there

scholarly journals Knowledge of and Management Attitude regarding Dentin Hypersensitivity among Dentists from a West African Country

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatou Leye Benoist ◽  
Fatou Gaye Ndiaye ◽  
Babacar Faye ◽  
Khaly Bane ◽  
Papa Ibrahima Ngom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Mechanical Stimulus ◽  
West African ◽  
Dentin Hypersensitivity ◽  
Mechanical Stimuli ◽  
West African Country ◽  
Management Procedure ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Triggering Factor ◽  
Management Attitude

ABSTRACT Aim The aim of the present study was to assess knowledge of, and management attitude of dentists regarding Dentin hypersensitivity. Materials and methods The study involved all the dentists from private and public sectors, exerting in Senegal. The following data were requested from the surveyed dentists using an anonymous questionnaire; sociodemographics (i.e. age, gender, area of activity, etc.) and knowledge on triggering factor, type of pain, diagnosis, preventive and curative procedures. Results Out of the 238 dentists who received the questionnaire, 68.9% returned properly filled forms. They were 116 males and 48 females with a mean age of 41.99 ± 8.50 years. Eighty three percent of the participants had a good understanding of the characteristics of pain related to DH and 92% recogni-zed chemical and thermal stimuli as triggering factor while mechanical stimulus was not evoked. Many responders (90.9%) did not have any idea of the mechanism for pain transmission across the dentin. Regarding diagnosis technique, 68% use mechanical stimuli to elicit DH pain. Regarding management procedure, the use of desensitizing tooth paste is the mostly chosen option followed by professional topical application of fluoride. More than 1/3rd of the surveyed dentists confess resorting to root canal to manage DH. Conclusion We recommend incorporation of basic science knowledge on orofacial pain and competencies to manage painful conditions like dentin hypersensitivity. Also, Health regulatory institutions should make continuing dental education a requirement to preserve the dental licensure. How to cite this article Benoist FL, Ndiaye FG, Faye B, Bane K, Ngom PI, Ndong PMK. Knowledge of and Management Attitude regarding Dentin Hypersensitivity among Dentists from a West African Country. J Contemp Dent Pract 2014;15(1):86-91.

scholarly journals LA DIFFUSION SPATIALE DE L’INNOVATION DU CENTRE CIDAP EN MATIERE DE DEVELOPPEMENT LOCAL DANS LA PREFECTURE DE DOUFELGOU AU TOGO / THE SPATIAL DISSEMINATION OF THE INNOVATION OF THE CIDAP CENTER IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE PREFECTURE OF DOUFELGOU IN TOGO

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aguey Kpati Komlan
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
West African ◽  
Spatial Diffusion ◽  
West African Country ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
Diffusion Spatiale ◽  
Definition Of

Le Togo a opté pour le développement local comme stratégie permettant d’apporter une meilleure réponse aux enjeux de développement des populations des collectivités locales. Cette orientation des politiques publiques semble être une nouveauté dans les stratégies de développement mises en œuvre dans ce pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Les modèles proposés sont plutôt exogènes, aux antipodes de la définition même du développement local. N’existait-il pas d’initiatives inspirantes et transférables dans diverses collectivités locales? C’est l’objet principal de cet article qui met en exergue l’initiative du centre CIDAP créé en 1984, pour sauvegarder les savoirs endogènes des peuples Nawda à partir du canton de Baga. Une analyse de leurs effets, quatre décennies après le début des interventions, montre leur diffusion spatiale dans les 14 cantons de la préfecture de Doufelgou, bien au-delà des objectifs initiaux des promoteurs. Elle pourrait inspirer la dynamique de développement territorial dans d’autres collectivités. Togo has opted for local development as a strategy to provide a better response to the development challenges of the populations of local communities. This strategy seems to be a novelty in the development strategies implemented in this West African country. The models proposed are rather exogenous, at odds with the very definition of local development. Were there not inspiring and transferable initiatives in various local communities? This is the main object of this article, which highlights the initiative of the CIDAP center, created in 1984, to safeguard the endogenous knowledge of the Nawda peoples from the canton of Baga. An analysis of their effects, four decades after the start of the interventions, shows their spatial diffusion in the 14 cantons of the prefecture of Doufelgou, well beyond the initial objectives of the promoters. It could inspire the dynamics of territorial development in other communities. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0720/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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