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- As people struggle to improve their well-being it is the environment which both provides materials whilst at the same time constraining the effort. This interconnection between human aspiration and ecological integrity is a rather complex one incorporating links between population numbers and per capita resource demand, pattern of culture, organisation, technology and the physical environment. Each ecological complex of concern is located within a wider politico-economic environment. The paper argues that popular perceptions concerning the links between population growth and ecological degradation in Northern Ghana can be misleading if examined outside this complex nexus. It is argued that ecological degradation processes in Northern Ghana are as socially, economically and politically determined as they are physical and not resulting from mere growth in population even if population is an important factor given the underlying institutional failures which do not allow for adaptive responses by encouraging a shift to more intensive systems. Since the current unfolding ecological crisis in Northern Ghana is essentially human-induced, It can equally be solved through human action at the local, district,, regional, national end global levels of intervention, co-operation and support.
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- Kasena reproductive culture is pro-natalist, pro-child and pro-offspring and this is obvious from their norms, sayings, and their institutions. This pro-natalist attitude is inculcated in children at an early age. These are not just glib generalisations. There is in fact evidence for this inclination such as the belief in spirirts masquerading as babies with congenital deformities which are perceived as threats to the family and society and who should therefore be gotten rid of or the encouragement of social menopause in a pre-menopausal couple. A variety of other ethnographic facts mediate the tendency to place ultimate value in large family sizes.
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- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- Review of: D.E.K. Amenumey. The Ewe in pre-colonial times. Accra: Sedco Pubishling Ltd., 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- There has been considerable concern about the reproductive health status of girls in Ghana in recent years due to the increase in premarital sexual activities amongst the youth, socio-economic implications of teenage pregnancy and illegal abortions. The major objective of this paper is to throw some light on how proper use of family resources could help resolve the problem. All families have certain resources such as money, time, energy, skills of members, and some community resources like schools and traditional society's puberty rites. However, most families do not have access to enough money to meet all the needs of all family members. Traditionally, resources are shared without due regard to needs of individual members, but rather using gender and age as yardsticks with the resultant inequalities in access; with men always getting more than their fair share and women and children not getting enough. It is important that parents make every effort to provide the needs of their children especially the girls, so that they do not accept money from men who in turn ask for sexual favours. In traditional societies in the past, specific rites were instituted to safeguard the reproductive health of the members. Examples of these rites were puberty rites. In Dodome, the puberty rite for girls is called Tugbewowo but it has been suspended for some years now. As part of these rites, girls are supposed to remain virgins till after the rites are performed. They are taught the arts of womanhood, motherhood etc, and are prepared to take their places as women in society. Modernization has eroded most of these resources that prepared girls to become effective members of society, producing teenage single parents. The rites served as an incentive for mothers to constantly remind their daughters of society's expectations of them and thus they preserved their chastity. That is no longer the case. An exploratory study in Dodome revealed that the majority would like tugbewowo to be reintroduced. It is recommended that (1) families be empowered financially to be able to meet needs of members (2) that a detailed study be carried out into tugbewowo with the aim of understanding and modernizing the rites for reintroduction in Dodome and the Ho district as a whole. It is concluded that the time has come to seek African solutions to African problems and end the adoption of Western values.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)