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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sankofa"”.
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Sankofa: A virtual Exploration of the Besease Shrine
As a teenager growing up in Ghana, whenever I traveled to my hometown, I saw old, abandoned traditional buildings made of earth and timber frames. I have always wanted to know why old traditional buildings look so unique and different from our present-day buildings. They usually appear to be weak …
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From Silence to Sankofa: The Role of Archives in Addressing Urban Renewal’s Displacement History
In the post-World War II era, urban renewal was designed as a path towards the revitalization of American cities through public investment into the redevelopment of ‘blighted’ areas. Through eminent domain takings, urban renewal projects led to the forced relocation of residents from their homes …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… Century Cycle to the Ghana Akan proverb of the Sankofa. The concept of the Sankofa teaches that one has to understand his past in order to progress into his future. Chapter 1 contains an overview of Wilson’s formative years and his influences. Chapter 2 shows the historical facts about the …
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That Bird is Singing Us an Invitation to Meet Our Future: Listening to the Call of Sankofa to Develop Memory Practice Methodologies for Performative Practice
… application of the Akan Adinkra principle of Sankofa, as a memory practice methodology that offers otherwise readings of remembering for lives omitted from or obscured from archives and official documents of history. The common meaning of Sankofa has been defined as get up and go get it” or …
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The Flight of the Sankofa Bird; Paul Strand’s Ghana; An African Portrait, The Fellowship of Man and the Idea of Africa
"At Paul Strand’s birth in 1890, the Gold Coast was an important West African colony of the British Empire.1 By 1963, when Strand, then an older statesman of modern photography, made his second of three trips to photograph Africa, the Gold Coast had become Ghana, the first independent democratic …
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DNA - Deconstructing Native Affairs: New Equations
… and metaphorical approach to architecture, Sankofa and decoloniality to frame the investigation. My first solo work, Satisfaction Index, is a point of departure for this analysis. The study then proceeds to engage with works created during the pursuit of this master’s degree over the past …
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Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves
… through ritual process/performance. The ideal of sankofa is employed to frame the research and determine how ancestors could help us remember the past so that we, together with them, could imagine the future. I propose the concept of Bohareng as an alternative consideration of what the future …
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Kukataa: An Afrocentric Exploration of Nongovernmental Organization Refusal in the Context of Female Genital Cutting in Tanzania
… the African diaspora can be imagined through a Sankofa return to their Maatic and ubuntu humanity. The Maatic and ubuntu lens opens the radical possibility to understand that Black girls and women do not need to be circumcised to reach the fullest potential of their humanity. Using the …
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The existence of the digital divide in African indigenous communities in accessing digital African Indigenous Games: a case study of Ga-Mamabolo oin Limpopo Province, South Africa
… of innovations, Critical posthumanism, and Sankofa theories. This study adopted qualitative participatory action research framed by interpretivism and indigenous research paradigms. The data was co-generated with 8 co-researchers who were children, youth, indigenous knowledge holders, and …
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Parents and Special Educators' Perspectives on the Sexuality Educational Needs of Learners with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities in Ghanaian Special Schools
… schools. Realist Social constructionism and Sankofa (an anticolonial framework) served as the foundations for the study. It therefore acknowledged the role of impairment as a material reality as interacting with social realities. Taking into account the historical social, cultural, political …
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Exploring the role of traditional leaders in conflict resolution amongst Vatsonga at Bungeni Area: Limpopo Province
… with the formal courts. The study adopted the Sankofa and Conflict Transformation Theory.The study used qualitative method involving semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions to collect data. The population of the study was sampled using non-probability sampling. Purposive sampling …
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Exploring the role of traditional leaders in conflict resolution amongst Vatsonga at Bungeni Area: Limpopo Province
… with the formal courts. The study adopted the Sankofa and Conflict Transformation Theory.The study used qualitative method involving semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions to collect data. The population of the study was sampled using non-probability sampling. Purposive sampling …
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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
… In response, this dissertation advocates for the Sankofa storientation approach in literacy education, which centers on educators’ responsibility to engage with and learn from Black girls’ stories. This model follows a sequence beginning with Me: Educator as Storyteller, where educators reflect on …
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Managing the structure, regulation and infrastructure investment decisions in the natural gas industry of Ghana
… non-associated gas production from the Sankofa Gas Project is risky and requires higher gas prices and alternative downstream consumers to be viable. The Gas Processing Plant and transmission pipeline tariffs are inappropriately set and requires regulations. Providing effective …
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An analysis of the role of government in the locational decisions of Cambridge biotechnology firms
This dissertation examines the validity of what Prof. Noam Chomsky has referred to as the central role of the dynamic, entrepreneurial state sector in economic development. Through an examination of the role that government at three levels-local, state, and federal-has played in the locational …
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A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Testimonies of Black Women's Experience of Desegregation in the South
… How can we use fiction, desegregation, and Sankofa to improve education today? Why does the public in the United States sit back and tolerate educational inequality? I hope that experiences of these Southern Black Women provide testimonies to empower marginalized and disenfranchised …
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Relationality and Opacity: Approaching Trans in Cinema
… British cinema, surveying films by Derek Jarman, Sankofa, and Neil Jordan, and artworks by Travis Alabanza and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. Through this archive, I follow fugitive practices of Black and trans kinship transecting conditions of fungibility. In chapter three, I connect histories of …
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Justice-Centered Mentorship in Science Teacher Education: Black Men Decolonizing Science Teaching
… creation of a Afrofuturistic narrative entitled Sankofa: Black Space Futures with case study methods using a variety of data that included notes and records of mentor-mentee conversations, reflective writings, curricular artifacts, and artifacts related to research activities. Findings showed …
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
<p>The mental health challenges of members of the African diaspora have been a worldwide occurrence for centuries, initially beginning with the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite …