Author: Alexis B. Tengan (ed.)
The present book presents a collection of papers presented
during the third Cardinal Poreku Dery Colloquium held at Wa, Ghana. Cardinal Dery
Colloquia are part of an action research movement and study initiated by Dr.
Alexis B. Tengan since 2003 which are seeking to provide a heritage institution
of integral human development in the fullest sense of the term. The focus of
the movement is to create intellectual awareness for self and guided education
into the depths of religious, cultural, economic, social and philosophical
movements and ideas before and after foreign religious (Islam, Christianity
etc.) arrival particularly in northern Ghana and in Africa generally. The main
objective is to identify and document the tangible and intangible archival
institutions and materials within the societies in Northern Ghana and in Africa
in order to build a comprehensive and integrated heritage institution, of
cultural and philosophical discourses within the context of religious and
integral development of the people. The project wishes to, in the end, contribute
to research on the cultural history and individual as well as social
biographies of life in Northern Ghana by focusing particularly on the dynamic
interchange and tensions between religion, culture, the economy and society as
it evolved since the time of slave raiding in the mid-19th century.
Publisher: Legon-Accra, Ghana Sub-Saharan Publishers. 2017
Description: xxxi, 240 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 978998647810.
