{"id":11685,"date":"2024-12-07T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=11685"},"modified":"2024-12-18T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T18:07:06","slug":"a-woman-called-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/a-woman-called-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Woman Called Ghana&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;A Woman Called Ghana&#8221;\u00a0is a collection of lyrical essays interwoven with documentary-style poems that examines the complex identities of a nation and African womanhood through both colonial and Pan-African moments in Ghana\u2019s history. Central to the project is the question:\u00a0<em>How can portrayals of West African women address historical marginalization while reflecting pre-colonial notions of African womanhood?<\/em>\u00a0The collection explores the lives of Fathia Nkrumah, Ghana\u2019s First Lady during its independence era, and Okonore Yaa, a significant yet overlooked figure in Akan folklore. Fathia Nkrumah, an Egyptian woman with Eurocentric features, became an emblem of beauty in post-independence Ghana, potentially reinforcing Western ideals, while Okonore Yaa, often overshadowed in patriarchal Anansi folktales, embodies the silenced voices of African women in history. Through lyrical prose and documentary-style poetry, the project interrogates the ways colonialism and patriarchy have shaped African women\u2019s identities, while tracing their resilience in reclaiming their narratives. Drawing on Pan-African ideals, Ghanaian folklore, and historical figures,\u00a0&#8220;A Woman Called Ghana&#8221;\u00a0reimagines African womanhood from a pre-colonial perspective, disrupting historical silences and illuminating the multifaceted experiences of African women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faculty Research Grant<\/strong><br \/> <strong>Afua Ansong (Africana Studies)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":11686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f24grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11706,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11685\/revisions\/11706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}