The Future of Ghanaian-Traditional-Akan Ethics: Bleak or Bright?

Type Journal Article - American Journal of Social Issues and Humanities
Title The Future of Ghanaian-Traditional-Akan Ethics: Bleak or Bright?
Author(s)
Volume 3
Issue 5
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
URL http://www.ajsih.org/index.php/ajsih/article/view/105
Abstract
Ghana is noted for her rich culture climaxed with the sense of peace and hospitability. Ghana’s rich culture and sense of hospitability are rooted in her communalistic-humanistic philosophies. This communalistic-humanistic philosophy that at least forms part of the foundations of her ethics has prompted several scholars to research into almost all of Ghana’s ethnic groups. One of such groups whose ethical systems and philosophies have gained much attention in academic scholarship is the traditional Akan people. Strictly speaking, in recent times, my observations are that some or almost all of the prominent Ghanaian-traditional-Akan ethics that are espoused seem to have been abandoned, coupled with a fall in its face value. This paper therefore aims at discussing how some of the prominent Ghanaian-traditional-Akan ethics were highly espoused in the past, compares it with the present situation, and then predicts how the future of Ghanaian-Traditional-Akan ethics might be.

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