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    INTEGRATION OF CROSS-CULTURE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING INTO THE MBA CURRICULUM AT THE FACULTY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION, AAMUSTED
    (2025-10-07) AWOPONE, VICTORIA WEPEA WEOBONG
    This proposal recommends the integration of the internationally recognised Cross-Culture (X Culture) experiential learning programme into the Master of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum at the Faculty of Business Education, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED). This initiative aligns with AAMUSTED's mandate to provide higher education in technical, vocational, and entrepreneurial training and to develop strong linkages with industry for holistic training. X Culture is a global collaborative project where students from over 100 universities around the world work in international virtual teams to solve real business challenges like developing business proposals, marketing strategies, or operational solutions presented by corporate partners. A key feature of this programme is its emphasis on cross-cultural collaboration. That is, working with people from different national, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, each bringing unique perspectives, values, and communication styles. Through this experience, MBA students will have the opportunity to work in diverse cross-cultural teams, develop critical global business skills, strengthen their digital collaboration capacity, and enhance their employability. This proposal highlights the introduction, problem statement, justification, overview of X-Culture, benefits to AAMUSTED, conclusion and recommendations adopting X-Culture into MBA curriculum.
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    Renegotiating the Terms of African Womanism: Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
    (Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2020-08-31) Ben-Daniels, Faith
    Over the years African women have struggled for space and recognition in all spheres of human life. Writers from Efua Theodora Sutherland, Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo down to Chimamanda N. Adichie, Lola Shoneyin and Ayobami Adebayo have expressed African women’s struggles from divergent viewpoints. As such, this paper returns to the concept of African womanism as created by Clenora Hudson-Weems and endeavours to dissect how Binwell Sinyangwe’s A Cowrie of Hope and Neshani Andreas The Purple Violet of Oshaantu engages this concept in order to create awareness of the African woman’s disposition. Subsequently, this paper focuses on the new approaches to the discussion of the African woman’s liberation. It takes a look at the face of African womanism as a movement that advocates the liberation of the African woman within her cultural niche. It also discusses how Sinyangwe and Andreas address the negative factors oppressing the African woman and also suggest ways of liberation by renegotiation.
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    Socio-economic and technological aspects of mental health of older persons: the role of strong and weak ties in Ghana
    (Ageing & Society, 2022-01-27) Amoah, Padmore Adusei; Osei-Tutu, Annabella; Baffour Adjei, Stephen
    Research indicates that social capital can influence the extent to which socio-economic status (SES) and information and communications technology (ICT) affect mental health. This study uses empirical data to examine the veracity of this claim by examining the effect of SES and ICT use on the mental health of older persons in Ghana, as well as the mod erating role of bonding (i.e. strong ties) and bridging (i.e. weak ties) social capital in these associations. Data were drawn from 409 older persons from four regions in Ghana as part of a broader cross-sectional survey. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that SES and ICT use had positive associations with mental health after adjusting for other socio-demographic factors. Bridging social capital modified the association between SES and mental health positively. Bonding social capital also moderated the relations between ICT use on mental health positively. We argue that the prevalent nature of resources embedded in strong ties and the diversity of support that emerge from weak ties account for the difference in their influence observed in this study. Thus, while advances in socio economic and technological conditions can enhance older persons’ mental health, equal attention must be paid to the characteristics of their strong and weak ties as they possess the resources to make socio-technological policies even more meaningful.
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    Sociocultural Groundings of Battered Women’s Entrapment in Abusive Marital Relationship in Ghana
    (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2017-05-17) Baffour Adjei, Stephen
    While social psychological theorizations have contributed to our understanding of why battered women continue to remain in abusive intimate relationships, its apparent exclusive focus on individual victims’ psychological orientation leaves little conceptual space for discovering the subtle ways by which social and cultural norms shape the stay/leave decisions of victims of spousal violence. Drawing upon discursive psychol ogy, this study explores the sociocultural groundings of stay/ leave decisions of battered women in Ghana. Semi-structured focus groups and personal interviews were conducted with 32 participants: 16 victims and 16 perpetrators from rural and urban Ghana. Discursive accounts of participants suggest that post-divorce social stigma, remarriage alternatives, and post divorce child care, as well as privacy framing of marital abuse function in concert to influence battered women’s entrapment in violent marital relationships. The article argues that, rather than individual psychological orientation, the decision to stay in or leave abusive marital relationships in Ghana is sociocul turally and structurally grounded. To understand the highly complex nature of spousal violence, one must always go beyond the person and his or her psychological orientations, and seek the origin of battered women’s entrapment also in the external conditions of life, and in the sociocultural and structural forms of human existence
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    Sign Language Interpreter-Mediated Qualitativ eter-Mediated Qualitative Inter e Interview with view with Deaf P Deaf Par articipants in Ghana: Some Methodological Reflections for ticipants in Ghana: Some Methodological Reflections for Pr Practice
    (The Qualitative Repor e Report, 2022) Baffour Adjei, Stephen; Sam, Tara Sarah; Owusu Sekyere, Frank; Boateng, Philip
    Qualitative research is adventurous and creative, and committed to understanding unique human experiences in specific cultural ecologies. Qualitative interviewing with Deaf participants is far more challenging for hearing researchers who do not understand sign language, and for this reason such interactions may require the use of a sign language interpreter to facilitate the interview process. However, the quality of sign language interpreter-mediated interactions is likely to be compromised due to omissions, oversights, misinterpretations or additions that may occur during translation. An unthoughtful and poor interpretation of a communicative event by a sign language interpreter during a qualitative interview with Deaf participants may lead to an imposition of the interpreter’s or the researcher’s realities on Deaf participants’ lived experiences. It is thus important that qualitative researchers who conduct sign language interpreter-mediated interviews with Deaf participants employ practical and flexible ways to enhance such interactions. To understand the everyday realities of Deaf people amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Ghana, and document same to inform policy and practice, we conducted qualitative interviews with Deaf participants in Ghana. In this article, we draw insights from our data collection experiences with Deaf participants in Ghana to offer some useful methodological reflections for minimizing omissions in sign language-mediated qualitative interviews and thereby enhancing qualitative data quality. We particularly discuss how qualitative researchers can use language flexibility and post interview informal conversations with a sign language interpreter to create a natural non-formal interactional atmosphere that engenders natural conversational flow to minimize interpretation omissions and differential power relations in sign language interpreter-mediated qualitative interviews with Deaf participants.