Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems Documents

[Ɔkyeame Kwame]

Documents

• Plant and Herbal Medicine and Health Knowledge
  Indigenous Health Knowledge
  Overview on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa (rtf)
  Access and Utilisation of Safe Motherhood Services of Expecting Mothers in Ghana (doc)
  Well-Being and Birth in Rural Ghana: Local Realities and Global Mandates
  Private health care provision in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana(pdf)
  MEDICINAL PLANTS, INDIGENOUS MEDICINE AND CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY IN GHANA (pdf)
  Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants in Ghana
  Plant and biodversity, herbal medicine, intellectual property rights and industrially developing countries
  Medicinal Plants in Ghana
  Socioeconomic implications of buruli ulcer in Ghana (pdf)
  Healing or recovery ability of harvested stem bark of medicinal plant
  Quality and harvesting specifications of some medicinal plants
  Ghana Forest Loss
  Medicinal plants of Ghana (pdf)
  In Memoriam: Gilbert Boye - 1934-2003
  Understanding Igbo Medicine Practitioners (pdf)
  Domestication of Medicinal Plants in Southeastern Nigeria (pdf)
  Cultural Modes of Comprehending and Healing Insanity: The Yaka of D. R. Congo (pdf)
  
  
  
• Social Systems
  Dangme Moral Experience
  Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana (pdf)
  ^{Contribution of older people to development: Ghana study (pdf)}
  Social role of draughts in an Asante village (pdf)
  Economic and Sociocultural Aspects of Cowrie Currency of the Dagaaba of Northwestern Ghana
  Writings of Ekra-Agiman (J. E. Casley Hayford)
  Dagaare Customary Law (pdf)
  Traditional constitutions and succession disputes in the Northern Region, Ghana (pdf)
  History of the Dagomba Kingdom in some Hausa Ajami Manuscripts
  Human rights and the African indigenous justice system (pdf)
  Ghanaian female business owners (pdf)
  Traditional leaders and democracy: Ghana as case (pdf)
  Ghana: Changing values/Changing Technologies
  Homowo Festival of the Gas of Ghana
  Mothering Among Black and White Non-Ghanaian Women in Ghana
  Widowhood (pdf)
  Traditional lifestyle and biodiversity use (pdf)
  Land conflict resolution in rural communities of Ghana (pdf)
  Land tenure security and investment incentives: Puzzling evidence from Burkina Faso (pdf)
  
  
  
• Music, Dance, Performing Arts
  High-tech and Ghanaian Music
  The Role of Indigenous Art (pdf)
  Koo Nimo and Folk Music
  Ghana Folk Music
  Prof. J. H. Kwabena Nketia
  Performing Arts in Africa
  Ephraim Amu
  Bamboo Orchestra (pdf)
  Children's Singing Games
  Musical Instruments (pdf)
  
  
  
  
• Visual Art and Crafts
  Wood Carving (pdf)
  Carved in Wood: Akan Stools
  Developing the arts for development (pdf)
  Ghanaian canoe decorations (pdf)
  Akan Dolls and mythologies
  Identity and style in Ghanaian artistic discourse (pdf)
  
  
  
• Food and Agricultural Systems
  Technology and Small-scale Farmers
  Indigenous Fermented Foods For Small-scale Industries
  The Relevance of Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Nigerian Agriculture (pdf)
  Ethnobotanicals in Ghana (pdf)
  Grasscutter Farming in Ghana (pdf)
  Cultivation and Use of African Yam Bean
  Underutilized Crops (pdf)
  Migrant Fulani herdsmen, indigenous farmers and the contest for land in Northern Ghana (pdf)
  Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa (pdf)
  Marine and aquatic information for fishermen in Ghana (pdf)
  Transfer of agricultural technolgy in Africa (pdf)
  New challenges in cassava transformation in Nigeria and Ghana (pdf)
  Agro-processing sector of Ghana (pdf)
  Peanut production in Northern Ghana (pdf)
  Nutrional status in Ghana (pdf)
  Dehydration of food crops using solar dryer with convective heat flow (pdf)
  Industrial potential of cowpeas (pdf)
  The land tenure and agrarian system in the new cocoa frontier of Ghana: Wassa Akropong case study
  Land rights and agricultural investment in Ghana (pdf)
  
  
  
  
• Information and Knowledge
  Traditional Knowledge
  Claiming and Using Indigenous Knowledge
  Information as a Transformative Tool
  Mathematics and Culture Nexus (pdf)
  Field-based Education and Indigenous Knowledge (pdf)
  Proverb speaking as a creative process: The Akan of Ghana
  The Awutu-Efutu Language (pdf)
  Verbal and Multi-verbal system of Akan (pdf)
  Traditional Igbo Numbering System: A Reconstruction (pdf)
  Ethnomathematics, geometry and educational experiences in Africa (pdf)
  Traditional ecological knowledge in addressing global warming - the Ghana situation (pdf)
  Land management in Ghana: Building on tradition and modernity (pdf)
  

Built Environment
Wetlands
Sustainable Construction in Africa (pdf)
Social Context of Built Form (pdf)
Freshwater Ecosystems in West Africa
Environment and development in Ghana
Cape Coast: Heritage Conservation - 1 (pdf)
Cape Coast: Heritage Conservation - 2
Patterns of land tenure in Anloga, Ghana
Ghana’s experience with oil palm plantations
Gated Community in Ghana (pdf)
Bamboo Construction Technology For Housing (pdf)
Tallensi Architecture (pdf)
En-gendering critical spatial literacy (pdf)
Structure of the built environment sector in Ghana



Spirituality
Akan Calendrical System(pdf)
The Bono (Akan) Spiritual Temporal Worldview (pdf)
Continuity and decline of Akan Traditional Religious Practices (pdf)
Akan Woman's Concept of God


Dissertation and Thesis Abstracts
Abstracts of Journal Articles and Other Documents