Project Lead: Dr. Dorothy Agyepong, Department of Linguistics

The study aimed to investigate a form of separation— ‘Opening’ events. This category of events is a subtype of separation events. Majid et al. (2007: 147) in their cross-linguistic study of the categorisation of these events observed that actions such as opening, taking apart and peeling involve a minimal destruction of the affected objects and are often reversible. That is, objects that are opened can be closed. ‘Opening’ events are contrasted with cutting and breaking events (focus of previous study), which involve a significant material destruction often accompanied by non-reversible change in the material integrity of the affected object. Bowerman (2005) describes objects that are ‘openable’ as: (a) a unitary object that (may) have parts (ex. a pot with a lid), (b) an object that separates along predetermined lines, (c) separation affords access to a content, an interior space or a previously concealed part of the object.
The proposed research explored the semantics of verbs that describe events of ‘opening’ and ‘taking apart’ in Asante-Twi with the aim of contributing fresh data and analysis to already existing studies.

Reimaging and re-inventing Ghanaian highlife music for contemporary relevance and national development

The project focused on Ghanaian highlife music, the most popular musical style from Ghana which some people believe is in decline because of competing genres and changing generational preferences. It emerged in the early 20th century along the coastal areas in Ghana where it synthesized indigenous musical resources with Western musical elements (Collins, 1985; Plageman, 2013; Shipley, 2012). Ghanaian highlife music was categorized into brass, guitar and dance bands. However, over the years, several styles have sprouted from highlife music including burger highlife, hiplife, afrobeat(s). Nevertheless, due to its sociological underpinnings and historical origins in the colonial period, the use of the term highlife itself has been problematic in contemporary times, hence requiring re-imagining. The focus and selection of Highlife music for this project was based on three factors:
1. Highlife music represents Ghana’s national identity. For instance, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president used highlife music in his campaign for Ghana’s independence
2. Highlife music has influenced other music genres and the outcome include gospel highlife, choral highlife and reggae highlife.
3. Highlife music overlaps with the various sub-disciplines and ensembles in the Department of Music.

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This research project was an inquiry into the nature of the traditional Akan conception of consensus and how consensual democracy was expressed and practiced in Akan societies. It also sought to do a conceptual, linguistic, and empirical analysis of a traditional practice of consensual decision making instituted in meetings called agyina. One primary objective of the research was to determine whether this traditional conception and practice of democracy is compatible with, or antithetical to, the multi-party system of democracy in contemporary African societies.

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Fearing the consequences of depletion and, in some sense, wanton extraction of natural resources for human use, people across the world are exploring the best means to conserve nature. This project was an attempt to contribute to the global efforts at protecting the natural environment. It investigated how religious beliefs and philosophical thoughts in the Akan culture could be harnessed to promote life-sustaining environmental practices and policies.

Project Lead: Dr. George Kodie Frimpong, Lecturer, Department of English.

In this two-year project, the noun group (NG) is explored at the interface of register and dialectology. It investigated data across three written registers from two dialectal contexts with the aim to ascertain structural variability across native and nonnative contexts.

Project Lead: Dr. Philip Atsu Afeadie, Senior Lecturer,  Department of History.

The Anlo Traditional Council emerged from Anlo State Council, which was created in 1913 by British colonial rulers for colonial administrative convenience, and it rather assisted in suppressing the identity of the Avenor people, traditionally the largest society in southeastern Ghana. Similarly, the identities of the other states are obscured; Ewe historiography focused on Anlo to the neglect of Avenor, Aflao and the other states, as they lack systematic study and historical interpretation. In the case of Avenor, not a single journal article exists presently on its history and identity. To address the problem, this proposed book project served as a contribution. The project dealt with the history of Avenor from the earliest times up to 1930, the latter date of which marked consolidation of British colonial rule. 

Project Lead: Dr. Sylvanus Kwashie Kuwor, Department of Dance Studies.

This project sought to investigate the anthropological and choreological relevance of four traditional Ghanaian dances namely, Bima, Kundum, Kpatsa and Agbadza. It explored these dances in their indigenous settings with the aim of establishing, documenting and disseminating how knowledge in dance can provide understating of a people to ensure community cohesion and peaceful co-existence.

This project led by Dr. Nilirmi Samuel Nkumbaan of the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies attempted to archaeologically survey and document the heritage resources of Manya Jorpanya. Manya Jorpanya is a community located in the Shai/Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It has a rich migratory history related to the general migratory history of the Ga-Adangme group of people in Ghana. It is generally established that the se/shai people settled within the hills in the Accra plains and were in 1892, forcefully evicted from the hills by the British Colonial Administration (Gblerkpor, 2017; 2005; 2008; Gblerkpor and Nkumbaan, 2014). This implies that the evicted communities hurriedly abandoned their settlements in the hills, leaving a wealth of archaeological and heritage resources at these old settlement sites, which are yet to be scientifically studied and documented.

The research project was to help crystallise a research initiative that only concerned minor practical training of students and expand the frontiers of archaeological survey and documentation of the heritage resources of Manya Jorpanya.