Introduction: Cultural Change in Ghana

Abstract

In this Special Issue of the African Journal of Social Sciences Education
(AJSSE), our focus is to interpolate in critical pan-Africanizing and decolonializing
analyses of current cultural undulations with their peaks and valleys in Ghana.
These are framed around the praxes of what was, what has been modified, and
the holistic results of the interlocking of change and continuity within specific
joints of Ghanaian culture and heritage. In sum, we argue that Ghanaian culture
has demonstrated both resilience and adaptability in the face of gripping
cultic of ‘Modernisation,’ Globalisation, Afropolitanism, Cosmopolitanism,
Transnationalism, and Cyber-Worldism. We conclude, among others, that cultural
change and continuity in Ghana have succeeded in accelerating human creativity
hence imaginatively blended cultural ethos and idioms. Thus, we assert that from
critical standpoints, considerable aspects of Ghanaian culture and heritage, like
those of other parts of the globe, are adrift in pursuit of ontological anchoring
and aesthetical cosmopolitanizing. In sum, we harness material and temporal
fellowship of variables to alchemize cultural change and continuity in Ghana that
are syntheses rather than antitheses.