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- Journal of Communications, Media and Society (JOCMAS) is a multidisciplinary academic research platform focusing on communications in the broadest sense of the words. The Journal provides an opportunity for the academic community and industry players in Africa and beyond to publicise their research findings in the above-mentioned field and also access similar information.
- This Community contain Speeches delivered by Principal Office holders of the University of Media, Arts and Communication at important occasions.
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Item type:Item, Access status: Open Access , An African Ecocritical Consciousness: A Reading Of Amma Darko’s Faceless(Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (JESD), 2025) Annin, Felicia; Addei, CeciliaIn Faceless, Amma Darko creates ecological consciousness through the representation of human and non-human forms, and their responses to the environment or nature. This study contributes to debates on the global ecocriticism, which ostensibly finds its origins in the Anglo-American literary tradition. In understanding the pivotal role environment plays in literary studies, this study explores how Darko presents the concept of displacement in a typical Ghanaian environment with Accra setting as a case in point. Through a qualitative content analysis, the study looks at issues on ecocultural imaginaries and analyses how culture and environment conflict in the novel, Faceless. It also unveils the correlation that exists between humans and nonhumans and the changing environment as symbols of the African environment. The findings of the study reveal the relevance of environmental sensitivity in the way Darko creates the orientation of her characters on environmental issues and how it impacts the surroundings and the population. The paper concludes on the benefits of environmental sustainability and the need to promote consumption and production in the lives of the citizenry. The study further initiates debates on the relationship between the role of ecocritical thoughts and Ghanaian consciousness.Item type:Item, Access status: Open Access , Diasporic Citizenship: Slavery, Identity And Kinship In Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing(Celtic: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching, Literature and Linguistics, 2024) Addei, Cecilia; Annin, FeliciaHomegoing, is the debut novel of Yaa Gyasi, a Ghanaian/American author. As such, the novel belongs to tradition of writings referred to as diasporic literature. This study explores how Yaa Gyasi, even though did not experience slavery, revisits this subject of slavery as a way of continuing the tradition of slave narratives like that of Frederick Douglas and Harriet Jacobs who experienced slavery. The study explores the representation of slavery in the novel, bringing out how slavery broke African kinship ties and left the characters in a form of identity crisis. This study argues that the novel is a representation of loss of kinship ties and identity and the search for same.Item type:Item, Access status: Metadata only , The Iconography of Pop Culture in Ghana: Black Sherif’s Music in Perspective(k@ ta, 2024) Annin, Felicia; Addei, CeciliaGhanaian tradition, like other African traditions, revolves around cultural values and beliefs. These cultural values and beliefs vary as a result of the different cultural contexts in Ghana. One of the most popular traditions in Ghana is the use of songs as a form of entertainment and a mouthpiece for satirizing society’s ills. Mohammed Ismail Sherif Kwaku Frimpong, popularly known as Black Sherif, is a musician who employs the oral genre of Ghanaian music to unveil some of the pertinent issues in Ghana. This study uses the lyrics of the selected songs as data, which are transcribed and textually analyzed to situate Black Sherif’s music as a pathway through which the young people divulge critical issues confronting them and the vulnerable in the country. The study explores how the artiste presents entertaining yet thought-provoking songs as a manner of expression and foregrounds the culture of Ghana through the use of diction, imagery, and symbolism. It argues that the young people play constitutive roles in nation-building by promoting the Ghanaian culture through the songs they write, so society should grant them an audience and heed what they say. The findings reveal that the economic situation of the country has rendered young people jobless and frustrated and that the ghetto lifestyle has emerged as a popular culture in Ghana.Item type:Item, Access status: Open Access , Indeixicality in Political Discourse in Ghana: The Case of Former President John Mahama’s Speech at the National Memorial Service for Victims of June 03, 2015 Flood and Fire Disaster(Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2023) Addei, Cecilia; Ankrah, Gabriel KwameThis paper examines the indexicals in President John Dramani Mahama's speech, which was given on June 3, 2015, amid the flood and fire incident in Ghana, which resulted in the deaths of over 150 people. The speech's use of various indexicals—including their types, frequency, and effects—is covered. The study makes the case that, by using first-person pronouns like "I" and "my," the speaker successfully achieved self-projection and demonstrated empathy in his speech. The speech also used all indexicals, including person, spatial, temporal, discourse, and social, at different rates. Additionally, Deixis was used to make emotive appeals to the audience's emotions, an elusive emotional scale that compels one to support him. Without considering the value of their discourse, politicians frequently employ this tactic to gain the public's trust.Item type:Item, Access status: Open Access , “Body of a Lion, Head of a Soldier”: The Grotesque in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation(Imbizo (UP Journals), 2021) Addei, CeciliaBeasts of No Nation (2005) is a novel that invites attention to the plight of child soldiers. The protagonist of the novel, Agu, enjoyed an ideal life as a child with his family and always wished to go through traditional initiation as well as formal education before he was forcibly enlisted as a child soldier. At the battlefront, Agu engages in different types of violence and suffers various forms of abuse, which do not only cause him to lose his childhood but also his humanity, depictions of which draw the narrative into the mode of the grotesque. This article looks at how Uzodinma Iweala creates the picture of the child soldier through animal and bodily images to bring out the ambivalent nature of the child soldier as one caught between life and death, human and beast as well as between child and adult, through the grotesque, which brings up new concepts that are between life and death, fantasy and reality. The paper argues that the grotesque is of central importance to Iweala’s treatment of his central subject, namely, distorted personal development as a result of war. That is, the grotesque is not a chosen mode, but it is the inhuman depiction of the child soldier that draws the narrative into the grotesque mode.