This tribal grouping is mainly located along the coastal regions of Ghana and is the second largest members that make up theAkanethnic group to which they belong. They are mainly found in Cape Coast. Despite rapid growth and assimilation, the Fante has held to their traditions and culture to ...
Explores the relative importance of socioeconomic and ethnic/cultural factors on possible convergence in reproduction among residual ethnic groups in Ghana. Views on the differences in ethnic fertility; Proposition of the characteristics assimilation thesis; Premise of the cultural/ethnic effect thesis; ...
reported that the prevalence of glaucoma in Caucasians was 0.002%.45 This would appear to be outdated as our scientific methodology and population profile have evolved but it does highlight the need for further epidemiological glaucoma studies to include all the major ethnic groups of South Africa....
The highest rates are in Australia/New Zealand, Western and Northern Europe and North America, largely because the practice of PSA testing and subsequent biopsy has become widespread in those regions (Gann, 1997; Ferlay et al, 2008). As migration takes place and social demography changes, it ...
Political parties in Africa : ethnicity and party formation This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya, and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other coun....
They claim that they are not politically represented both in government and decision making of the country and their regions, the North West and South West regions lag behind both in social and economic development mindful of the rich natural resources. This has created a sense of secessionist ...
Perception of hunting, gathering and fishing techniques of the Bakola of the coastal region Southern Cameroon While the BaKola (sin. Nkola) are known as one of the "Pygmy" groups in the forest regions of central Africa, their subsistence activities have not yet bee... GN Mawoung - 《Afri...
Maize trade in Malawi Malawi is a small, densely populated, landlocked country in south-central Africa. It is home to eleven major ethnic groups, and members of these groups are, by and large, geographically segregated (Ejdemyr, Kramon, & Robinson, 2015). Across the nearly 13,000 Census En...
The poverty alleviation relocation program (PAR) is a milestone project in breaking spatial poverty traps in ethnic mountainous regions and provides a key solution for eradicating global absolute poverty. As direct participants in the restructuring of environmental and livelihood systems, the livelihood ad...
screening and preventive interventions for migrants, we studied the prevalence of HBV and HCV infection markers, along with their risk factors, using data from a large, population-based study including 5 large ethnic minority groups and individuals of Dutch origin living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...