Benjamin Prempeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 8679461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Prempeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Prempeh |
| SIGNATURE | PREMPEH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1814-0381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Becoming Bosomfield
This paper reevaluates Kwaw Ansah’s Heritage Africa (1989) as a cinematic work that continues to offer critical insights into African identity politics. Far from serving as a nostalgic relic of Ghana’s post-independence moment, the film dramatises persistent dilemmas of elite mimicry, epistemic rupture, and cultural alienation within postcolonial African societies. The paper addresses bifurcated questions: How does Heritage Africa represent the e…
Documentary as ritual pedagogy
Documentary cinema serves as a medium through which Indigenous cultural practices and knowledge systems are recorded and interpreted. Many representations of African ritual traditions, however, remain detached from the philosophical foundations that sustain those practices. This study examines the documentary film Evé Kornu (Inseparable Spirits), set among the Anlo community in the Volta Region, in which a ritual is performed upon the death of on…
Filmmaker-Subject Relationship Dynamics Hinged on Ethics
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Becoming Bosomfield
This paper reevaluates Kwaw Ansah’s Heritage Africa (1989) as a cinematic work that continues to offer critical insights into African identity politics. Far from serving as a nostalgic relic of Ghana’s post-independence moment, the film dramatises persistent dilemmas of elite mimicry, epistemic rupture, and cultural alienation within postcolonial African societies. The paper addresses bifurcated questions: How does Heritage Africa represent the e…
Documentary as ritual pedagogy
Documentary cinema serves as a medium through which Indigenous cultural practices and knowledge systems are recorded and interpreted. Many representations of African ritual traditions, however, remain detached from the philosophical foundations that sustain those practices. This study examines the documentary film Evé Kornu (Inseparable Spirits), set among the Anlo community in the Volta Region, in which a ritual is performed upon the death of on…
Filmmaker-Subject Relationship Dynamics Hinged on Ethics
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Adult and Continuing Education Topics (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (1 works) · Ethics in Business and Education (1 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (1 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (1 works) · Heuristic (1 works) · Meaning (existential) (1 works)