“Men don’t cry”.“A man must be strong, tough and brave”. Heard these statements before? Have you thought of how statements like these affect men? This was the theme of University of Ghana PhD student, Paapa Yaw Asante’s entry in the three minute thesis (3MT) competition in June 2019. Asante’s thesis, entitled To be a Man…Eno […]
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Do you have someone with mental illness in your home or community? How do you care for or treat them? These are just two of the questions explored by Francis Agyei in two urban poor communities while conducting his PhD research. Agyei presented his research findings during a 3 minute thesis competition (3MT) between the
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Treating Diabetes in Ghana A Role for Traditional Medicine?
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This report was written by Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (then Dr. Ama de-Graft Aikins) for The British Academy. The report was based on a synthesis of presentations from an international conference on Africa’s Neglected Epidemic: Multidisciplinary Research, Intervention and Policy for Chronic Diseases organised by the British Academy, Royal Society and Ghana Academy of Arts
Following her induction as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, lead researcher of Chronicity and Care in African Contexts, will deliver her inaugural lecture on 20 May 2021. In her lecture entitled Laughing, Singing, Dancing for Health: Creative Arts and the Science of Health Communication, Professor de-Graft
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DIALOGUES ON MENTAL HEALTH IN GHANA An art exhibition curated by Ama de-Graft Aikins and Bernard Akoi-Jackson We often take our mental health for granted. It is only when dealing with the stresses and strains of life that we realise how important it is for our overall wellbeing. Worldwide, an estimated 25 per cent of
By Paapa Yaw Asante, University of Ghana It is common to hear statements such as “men don’t cry”, “a man must be strong, tough and brave”. But have we asked ourselves whether these norms are causing more harm than good to men’s health? There is a strong link between these gender norms, known as masculinities,
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Welcome to the fourteenth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL, and a social psychologist researching chronic illness and experiences of care in African contexts, considers how artists are shaping current understandings of Covid-19 in Ghana.
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Abstract: In this paper I examine how responses to COVID-19 by Ghana’s creative arts communities shape public understanding of the pandemic. I focus on comedy, music, textile designs, and murals created between March and August 2020, through frameworks of the social psychology of everyday knowledge and arts and health. The art forms perform three functions:
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The growing popularity of fried chicken and pizza in parts of Africa underscores how fast food is changing habits and expanding waistlines ACCRA, Ghana — After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil
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