Charles Prempeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Prempeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Prempeh |
| SIGNATURE | PREMPEH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5898-7886 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Highly Religious Catholic Youths in the (Post)-Secular World: A Sociocultural Contextual Analysis of Ghanaian Catholics in Ghana and England
The goal of the paper is to provide a comparative analysis of religious revitalisation among selected religious Ghanaian Catholic youths in Ghana and England. In the 1960s Peter Berger and Harvey Cox, two leading scholars of the sociology of religion, argued that the force of modernity, characterised by advances in science and technology, would marginalise religion. But global religious resurgence, especially after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, le…
Yong and Coulter’s The Holy Spirit and Higher Education
The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana
“Countries have locked down, but heaven's gate is still open”
This chapter analyses the importance of religious rhetoric in reorienting Ghanaians to make sense of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country since March 2020. It is logical to argue that religion is ubiquitous in the country–disrupting modernity’s binaries between public and private spheres. The recent COVID-19 pandemic, once again, revitalized religion and spirituality in the country’s public sphere. This has been exemp…
Covid-19 and the Philosophy of Education: Recuperating Africa’s Triple Heritage
The Covid-19 pandemic mandated the closure of all schools globally. E-learning programmes were introduced to promote learning throughout the crisis. This paper, therefore, investigates the impact of Covid-19 e-learning and teaching on students’ social life, indexed by their practice of social conviviality after the pandemic. The study employed multiple sampling techniques in selecting students in the second cycle and tertiary institutions in Accr…
I am the daughter of a man’
The purpose of this article is to discuss the cultural creativity that Nana Kofi Abuna V, the Chief of Essipun Traditional Area in the Western Region of Ghana, is investing in transgressing gender boundaries as a woman chief. Deploying an ethnographic research approach and biographical narrative, feminism as a methodological framework, I argue that Nana is breaking the boundaries of gender to chart new pathways as a woman chief. Nana is one of th…
Polishing the pearls of indigenous knowledge for inclusive social education in Ghana
The goal of my paper is to argue for the need to polish the pearls of Akan indigenous wisdom as creative cultural eclecticism to constitute a theoretical base for destabilising cultural imperialism and ontological individualism in favour of inclusive social education. Since the sixteenth century, European expansion to the rest of the world, particularly, Africa has imposed an European single narrative on Africans. This is to the extent that, as a…
Hijab Is My Identity”: Beyond the Politics of the Veil: The Appropriations of the Veil in an Inner-City Muslim Area of Accra (Ghana) since the 1980s
The object of this ethnographic study is to assess the contemporary debates surrounding the veil (hijab) and the cultural reinterpretation of the hair in Maamobi, an inner-city Muslim area of Accra, Ghana. Instead of reproducing the Orientalists' view of the veil as oppressive to women in Islam, the paper analyses the significance of the veil and its appropriation within the Islamic faith in recent times. I maintain that in the midst of religious…
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media
As social media democratize participation in the public sphere, new voices are emerging that challenge the status quo of public political discussion in important ways. In particular, social media are allowing ordinary citizens to offer their appraisals of government policy and their diagnoses of the problems besetting development. Through a rhetorical analysis of online videos by selected social commentators, we show how development is framed by …
Nima-Maamobi in Ghana's Postcolonial Development: Migration, Islam and Social Transformation
Decolonising African Divine Episteme: A Critical Analysis of the Akan Divine Name of God (Twereduampon Kwame)
The goal of this paper is to decolonise Akan divine episteme from undue Euro-Christian influence. Since the 1920s, cultural anthropologists have argued that the Akan concept of Twereduampon Kwame is because God either revealed himself to the Akan on a Saturday or the Akan worshipped God on that day. Employing in-depth interviews and a secondary data research approach that incorporates analysis of extant literature, I challenge this assumption by …
Religious innovations of chieftaincy in Ghana: Pentecostal Christianity and the complex persistence and transformation of Akan chieftaincy
Chieftaincy is an important indigenous political system in West Africa. In Ghana-based on ancestral cult-the institution has gone through and survived the major historical epochs-precolonial, colonial, and post-independence-albeit with some changes. The institution's flexibility has been a singular source of its survival. This has made it possible for Pentecostals to become indigenous chiefs. In this article, I depend on a year's ethnographic res…
Socio-legal implications of Muslim–Christian conjugal relations in contemporary Zongo communities in Accra
Religion and the state in an episodic moment of Covid-19 in Ghana
The goal of this paper is to discuss the role religions are playing to stem the tide against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ghana. Focusing on the ubiquity of religions in Ghana, the paper argues that religious experts deploy their ability to invoke the transcendental being to compel adherents to comply with the lockdown rules, as well as follow precautionary measures to fight the virus in Ghana. The paper also maintains that the state h…
Dreadlocks in the Church of Pentecost: Rasta or Rastafarians
This paper discusses a controversy about the acceptance of dreadlocks that arose in the Church of Pentecost (CoP) in 2010. Based in Ghana and espousing a strong holiness ethics, the church had for many years held fast to a condescending rejection of people with locked hair. Originally, this was justified with the association of dreadlocks with “paganism” and mental illnesses. Later, Rastafarianism re-signified dreadlocks as a symbol for yet anoth…
Telephone Conversations: A History of Telecommunication Economics and MTN in Ghana, written by Ivor Agyeman-Duah
Telephone Conversations: A History of Telecommunication Economics and MTN in Ghana, written by Ivor Agyeman-Duah
Socio-legal implications of Muslim–Christian conjugal relations in contemporary Zongo communities in Accra
Religion and the state in an episodic moment of Covid-19 in Ghana
The goal of this paper is to discuss the role religions are playing to stem the tide against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ghana. Focusing on the ubiquity of religions in Ghana, the paper argues that religious experts deploy their ability to invoke the transcendental being to compel adherents to comply with the lockdown rules, as well as follow precautionary measures to fight the virus in Ghana. The paper also maintains that the state h…
Dreadlocks in the Church of Pentecost: Rasta or Rastafarians
This paper discusses a controversy about the acceptance of dreadlocks that arose in the Church of Pentecost (CoP) in 2010. Based in Ghana and espousing a strong holiness ethics, the church had for many years held fast to a condescending rejection of people with locked hair. Originally, this was justified with the association of dreadlocks with “paganism” and mental illnesses. Later, Rastafarianism re-signified dreadlocks as a symbol for yet anoth…
Polishing the pearls of indigenous knowledge for inclusive social education in Ghana
The goal of my paper is to argue for the need to polish the pearls of Akan indigenous wisdom as creative cultural eclecticism to constitute a theoretical base for destabilising cultural imperialism and ontological individualism in favour of inclusive social education. Since the sixteenth century, European expansion to the rest of the world, particularly, Africa has imposed an European single narrative on Africans. This is to the extent that, as a…
Hijab Is My Identity”: Beyond the Politics of the Veil: The Appropriations of the Veil in an Inner-City Muslim Area of Accra (Ghana) since the 1980s
The object of this ethnographic study is to assess the contemporary debates surrounding the veil (hijab) and the cultural reinterpretation of the hair in Maamobi, an inner-city Muslim area of Accra, Ghana. Instead of reproducing the Orientalists' view of the veil as oppressive to women in Islam, the paper analyses the significance of the veil and its appropriation within the Islamic faith in recent times. I maintain that in the midst of religious…
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media
As social media democratize participation in the public sphere, new voices are emerging that challenge the status quo of public political discussion in important ways. In particular, social media are allowing ordinary citizens to offer their appraisals of government policy and their diagnoses of the problems besetting development. Through a rhetorical analysis of online videos by selected social commentators, we show how development is framed by …
Nima-Maamobi in Ghana's Postcolonial Development: Migration, Islam and Social Transformation
Decolonising African Divine Episteme: A Critical Analysis of the Akan Divine Name of God (Twereduampon Kwame)
The goal of this paper is to decolonise Akan divine episteme from undue Euro-Christian influence. Since the 1920s, cultural anthropologists have argued that the Akan concept of Twereduampon Kwame is because God either revealed himself to the Akan on a Saturday or the Akan worshipped God on that day. Employing in-depth interviews and a secondary data research approach that incorporates analysis of extant literature, I challenge this assumption by …
Religious innovations of chieftaincy in Ghana: Pentecostal Christianity and the complex persistence and transformation of Akan chieftaincy
Chieftaincy is an important indigenous political system in West Africa. In Ghana-based on ancestral cult-the institution has gone through and survived the major historical epochs-precolonial, colonial, and post-independence-albeit with some changes. The institution's flexibility has been a singular source of its survival. This has made it possible for Pentecostals to become indigenous chiefs. In this article, I depend on a year's ethnographic res…
The Political Economy of Heaven and Earth in Ghana
“Countries have locked down, but heaven's gate is still open”
This chapter analyses the importance of religious rhetoric in reorienting Ghanaians to make sense of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country since March 2020. It is logical to argue that religion is ubiquitous in the country–disrupting modernity’s binaries between public and private spheres. The recent COVID-19 pandemic, once again, revitalized religion and spirituality in the country’s public sphere. This has been exemp…
Covid-19 and the Philosophy of Education: Recuperating Africa’s Triple Heritage
The Covid-19 pandemic mandated the closure of all schools globally. E-learning programmes were introduced to promote learning throughout the crisis. This paper, therefore, investigates the impact of Covid-19 e-learning and teaching on students’ social life, indexed by their practice of social conviviality after the pandemic. The study employed multiple sampling techniques in selecting students in the second cycle and tertiary institutions in Accr…
I am the daughter of a man’
The purpose of this article is to discuss the cultural creativity that Nana Kofi Abuna V, the Chief of Essipun Traditional Area in the Western Region of Ghana, is investing in transgressing gender boundaries as a woman chief. Deploying an ethnographic research approach and biographical narrative, feminism as a methodological framework, I argue that Nana is breaking the boundaries of gender to chart new pathways as a woman chief. Nana is one of th…
Yong and Coulter’s The Holy Spirit and Higher Education
Highly Religious Catholic Youths in the (Post)-Secular World: A Sociocultural Contextual Analysis of Ghanaian Catholics in Ghana and England
The goal of the paper is to provide a comparative analysis of religious revitalisation among selected religious Ghanaian Catholic youths in Ghana and England. In the 1960s Peter Berger and Harvey Cox, two leading scholars of the sociology of religion, argued that the force of modernity, characterised by advances in science and technology, would marginalise religion. But global religious resurgence, especially after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, le…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (5 works)