Fante Asafo Flags of Abandze and Kormantse: A Discourse between Rivals

Labi, Kwame Amoah

doi:10.1162/afar.2002.35.4.28

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“…1 They support political and religious systems and practices. 2 The arts are also integral to health and healing. Traditional healing systems in Ghanaian communities have incorporated the arts, through the use of objects, artefacts, costumes, singing, drumming and theatre.…”

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“Colonial Virus”: COVID-19, creative arts and public health communication in Ghana

Aikins

Akoi-Jackson

2020

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Since March 2020, Ghana’s creative arts communities have tracked the complex facets of the COVID-19 pandemic through various art forms. This paper reports a study that analysed selected ‘COVID art forms’ through arts and health and critical health psychology frameworks. Art forms produced between March and July 2020, and available in the public sphere - traditional media, social media and public spaces - were collated. The data consisted of comedy, cartoons, songs, murals and textile designs. Three key functions emerged from analysis: health promotion (comedy, cartoons, songs); disease prevention (masks); and improving the aesthetics of the healthcare environment (murals). Textile designs performed broader socio-cultural functions of memorialising and political advocacy. Similar to earlier HIV/AIDS and Ebola arts interventions in other African countries, these Ghanaian COVID art forms translated public health information on COVID-19 in ways that connected emotionally, created social awareness and improved public understanding. However, some art forms had limitations: for example, songs that edutained using fear-based strategies or promoting conspiracy theories on the origins and treatment of COVID-19, and state-sponsored visual art that representedpublic health messaging decoupled from socio-economic barriers to health protection. These were likely to undermine the public health communication goals of behaviour modification. We outline concrete approaches to incorporate creative arts into COVID-19 public health interventions and post-pandemic health systems strengthening in Ghana.

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“Colonial Virus”: COVID-19, creative arts and public health communication in Ghana

Aikins

Akoi-Jackson

2020

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“…However, Malcolm McLeod (1976) warns us not to classify all Akan or Ghanaian art as symbolic as he distinguishes sculpture that has verbal components from the genre that does not (p. 90). Labi's (2002bLabi's ( /2009) studies on the relationship between Fante flag symbols, proverbs and their interpretations by rival companies and intangible aspects of Akan art broaden the study. Metaphors are part of Asante communicative strategies but the challenges of transmission of this knowledge and collective memory raises important issues associated with the fluidity of these narratives (Owusu-Sarpong, 2003, pp.…”

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Art Studies in Ghana: Whose Responsibility?

Labi¹

2016

Legon J. Hum.

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While Ghana has centuries of tradition in producing some significant art, the literature on Ghanaian art suggests a preponderance of Euro-American writing about it, and on the contrary a paucity of Ghanaian scholars' contribution to the country's art studies. This paper examines some of the scholarship and Ghanaian participation in art discourse. It proposes some measures to change the trend by introducing art history departments focusing on degree programmes and graduate studies, and creating a local platform for indigenous voices and perspectives to cross-fertilize the knowledge in the discipline for the enrichment of the global discourse on Ghana's art.

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Of Patterns and Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Asafo Flags

Forni

2018

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Fante Asafo Flags of Abandze and Kormantse: A Discourse between Rivals

Cited by 9 publications

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“Colonial Virus”: COVID-19, creative arts and public health communication in Ghana

“Colonial Virus”: COVID-19, creative arts and public health communication in Ghana

Art Studies in Ghana: Whose Responsibility?

Of Patterns and Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Asafo Flags

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