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    Assessment of Three Problematic Texts in the Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament of the Dangme Bible
    (KNUST, 2018-02) Kuwornu-Adjaottor, Jonathan Edward Tetteh
    Three texts in the Dangme Bible (BSG/UBS 1999) generated a lot of discussions during a field survey of the eight Dangme speaking areas. The texts are: Ngôô wa tômi ômâ kâ pa wô... [Lend us our wrong-doings…] (Matt 6:12); … Mumi Klôuklôu ô tsε e yi se …[ the Holy Spirit pushed the head from behind…] (Mark 1:12); and Kεkε nε Yesu de mε ke, “Kuasiahi …” [Then Jesus said to them, “Fools…] (Luke 24:25). Exegesis of the Greek texts; and semantic analysis of the texts in Dangme, found out that: An alternative translation of Matt 6:12 in the Dangme as Ne o kâ wa tômi ômâ nâ ke wô [And let go our wrong-doings] will help readers understand forgiveness as “letting go” the offence of an offender, without keeping any record of the offence. The rendering of Mark 1:12 as Mumi Klôuklôu ha nε e ho nga a nô ya [The Holy Spirit permitted him to go to the wilderness], will clear the confusion in the minds of Dangme Bible readers who do not understand how the Holy Spirit could “push” Jesus into the wilderness. The alternative translation of Luke 24:25 with the phrase Oo nyâ juâmi he jô, (your mind has become cold) reduces the degrading tone of kuasia which etymology means “a good for nothing person”, “an un respected person”, “a worthless person.” The significance of the research is that it has evolved alternative translations and interpretations of Matt 6:12, Mark 1:12, and Luke 24:25 for the Dangme Bible reading communities; the researcher has thus started a discussion that other scholars will join.
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    Effect of religious orientation on supply chain performance: the roles of resource deployment capability and socio-cultural orientation
    (KNUST, 2018-06) Abdul Samed Muntaka
    Religion is deemed to have a potency to influence personal conducts and the policies of business organisations. However, research on how religious orientation influences the performance of these organisations is limited. Additionally, the conditions under which religious orientation impacts business performance remain under-researched. The study, therefore, aimed to examine how and under what conditions religious orientation influences supply chain performance (SCP). To this end, the study investigates how the resource deployment capability (RDC) of the firm mediates the effect of religious orientation on supply chain performance under varying conditions of socio-cultural orientation. The study relies on the upper echelon and resource based theories to conceptualize religious orientation as a firm resource that may impact on the RDC of the firm to influence supply chain performance. The effect of religious orientation on performance is thus posited to be channeled through development of the firm’s RDC. The study also draws on Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions’ model to conceptualize socio-cultural orientation as a complementary firm resource that increases in its magnitude strengthens the effect of religious orientation via RDC on SCP. Using primary data from 233 owner-managers of MSMEs operating in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African society, the study finds that higher levels of religious orientation is associated with increases in supply chain performance. The study further finds that RDC mediates the relationship between religious orientation and SCP. The study also finds that variability in the levels of socio-cultural orientation dimensions moderates the effect of religious orientation on RDC as well as the effect of RDC on SCP. Specifically, the study finds that the relationship between religious orientation and RDC is strengthened when risk aversion is high and ambiguity intolerance is low. Also, the effect of RDC on SCP is weakened when individualism is high, but is strengthened when collectivism is high. Theoretically, this study contributes to existing knowledge by showing that the nexus between religious orientation and supply chain performance is a function of the mediating effect of RDC and the moderating effect of socio-cultural orientation. The managerial implication is that religious orientation is an important firm resource whose economic value is attained when it is developed to build a firm’s resource deployment capability under differing conditions of socio-cultural orientation.
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    Etude thematique et esthetique de quelques contes dagara : entre continuite et prolongement des recits traditionnels
    (KNUST, 2018) Braimah, Balica
    Since the beginning of civilisation, folktales have been a rich treasure trove from which most societies derive their moral codes and values. To the Dagaaba people of Ghana and some of their neighboring countries, the narrating and listening processes based on both the physical and the socio-cultural environment of their communities, offer them the opportunity to discern the outcome of their actions in order to promote societal values. Quite apart from promoting their special interest in stereotypes and the different aspects of human behaviour, folktales are rapidly responding to their changing environment as evidenced by recent publications on folklore and their contemporary usage in songs, digital games, urban legend, the film industry and fantasy novels. In the wake of current globalization and its spill-over effects, however, what the young generation of Dagaaba and indeed other cultures need, is not just formal education stricto sensu but also, cultural literacy that grounds and portrays them in their own identity and tradition. As Folktales have continued to be an important genre of folklore that sustains and promotes our cultural heritage, what ought to be done to encourage the young Ghanaian to show interest in them? Having explored the importance of folktales all over the world and in Africa in particular, this study focuses on dagara folktales with the view to bringing to the fore their literary and aesthetic values, as well as juxtaposing them with contemporary and functional values of folktales in general. As the youth explore their own folktales from a pragmatic and pedagogical point of view, they will acquire a broader perspective of their people as well as their environment.