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Kwesi Yankah

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#12801

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#17883

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#9764

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#12431

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Bachelors English University of Ghana

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According to Wikipedia, Kwesi Yankah is a Ghanaian academic, author, and university administrator. He is a professor of linguistics and oral literature specializing in the ethnography of communications. He has served as the Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana and the president of the Central University. The author of several books, he was inducted as a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He is currently the Ghanaian Minister of State in charge of tertiary education.

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Kwesi Yankah's Published Works

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Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory by Kwesi Yankah (1995) (135)
The Proverb in the Context of Akan Rhetoric: A Theory of Proverb Praxis (1989) (73)
Proverbs: the aesthetics of traditional communication (1989) (42)
African folklore : an encyclopedia (2009) (34)
Oratory in Akan Society (1991) (28)
Free speech in traditional society : the cultural foundations of communication in contemporary Ghana (1998) (23)
The Akan highlife song: a medium of cultural reflection or deflection (1984) (22)
Narrative in Times of Crisis: AIDS Stories in Ghana (2004) (19)
Power, marginality and African oral literature: Power and the circuit of formal talk (1995) (18)
Proverb Rhetoric and African Judicial Processes: The Untold Story (1986) (18)
Do Proverbs Contradict (1984) (14)
To praise or not to praise the king: the Akan apae in the context of referential poetry (1983) (11)
Traditional lore in population communication: the case of the Akan in Ghana. (1992) (10)
African Folk and the Challenges of a Global Lore (1999) (9)
THE AKAN TRICKSTER CYCLE: MYTH OR FOLKTALE? (1983) (7)
The Proverb and the Western-Educated African: Use or Neglect? (1982) (5)
Nana Ampadu and the Sung Tale as Metaphor for Protest Discourse (2000) (4)
Mobile Phone Technology (2016) (3)
The Folktale as 'True' Experience Narrative (1984) (3)
Toward a performance-centred theory of the proverb (1983) (3)
Stakeholders Participation and Sustainability of Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes in Ghana: A Study of AngloGold Ashanti Mine in Obuasi (2016) (3)
The Making and Breaking of Kwame Nkrumah: The Role of Oral Poetry (1985) (3)
Metadiscourse: The framing of avoidance in formal encounters (1995) (2)
Giving unto the king praises that are not due: the problem of anachronism in Akan royal praise performance (1981) (2)
Governance, Democracy and Development in Africa: Developing a Cultural Approach (2002) (2)
Displaced Academies and the Quest for a New World Academic Order (2016) (2)
The Politics of Heritage in Africa: 9/11 and the Painful Death of an Asante King (2015) (1)
The folktale and its extensions (2008) (1)
The communication factor in the pan-African heritage (1998) (1)
Oral Traditions and the Physical Environment (1990) (1)
IMPLICATIONS FOR GHANA (2005) (0)
Going to town : the writings of P.A.V. Ansah (1996) (0)
Libraries and the sustenance of indigenous knowledge in the creative arts (2005) (0)
Democracy Watch 4 (0)
RIDDLES: SESOTHO RIDDLES (2004) (0)
Woes of a kwatriot: Reflections on the Ghanaian situation (1990) (0)
Mobile Phones and Our Cultural Values (2016) (0)
Books Received (1983) (0)
RASTAFARI: A MARGINALIZED PEOPLE (2004) (0)
TRICKSTERS: ESHU, THE YORUBA TRICKSTER (2004) (0)
Cross Rhythms [2]: Occasional Papers in African Folklore/Music (1986) (0)

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