The relevance of culture for the Diaspora Ghanaian

At one extreme are the so called post-modernists whose argument is about jettisoning overboard traditions because they inhibit development and are relics and shackles that have no relevance in the modern world; at the other extreme are the fundamentalists who believe that culture must be sustained in a particular traditional mode without context. I like to think that I can occupy the centrist ground on this and many other things because I abhor dogma and I am devoid of ideology even in things political.

Culture, in my understanding, is the totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions and other products of human work, though attitudes that characterise the functioning of a group or organisations (...)

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Published by Spyghana, Jan 27th, 2014.