Jacqueline Ogoe, Ebenezer Kofi Howard, Ninette Appiah, Benjamin Kwablah Asinyo, Anthony Boakye Antwi (2023)

This study explored the views of respondents on systems available in Ghanaian institutions that support the acquisition of fashion skills by the visually impaired. The study was premised on the fact that the availability of these systems are not known to redirect and facilitate the skill development of the visually impaired in fashion. Specifically, the study assessed the experiences of visually impaired individuals concerning systems available to enable them to enroll and acquire fashion-related skills. The case study research design was adopted to select and report data qualitatively. Interview and Focus Group Discussion were used to collect data from twenty-seven visually impaired students and six Fashion and Special Education experts. The respondents were reached through the adoption of purposive, convenience and snowball sampling techniques. With the aid of Nvivo software version 14, thematic analysis was carried out and presented as findings in this study. The study revealed that the Ghanaian educational system struggles to provide systems supportive for training the visually impaired with fashion skills. It was recommended that the government and institutions that provide
aids for visually impaired education, implement the necessary support systems to train the visually impaired with fashion skills in order to develop and empower their creative abilities in fashion.

Mark Millas Coffie (2023)

In this study, I bring to the fore some prominent popular musicians whose careers were truncated due to ill health and have passed on recently as an attempt to stimulate a discourse towards the health sustainability of popular musicians in Ghana for a sustainable career and industry. Drawing on descriptive research design, document analysis, and interviews for data collection, I observed that only a few prominent Ghanaian popular musicians had sustained their careers for over five decades. At the same time, some are grappling to do so due to ill health. I conclude that the health sustainability of popular musicians is paramount to the sustainability of Ghana’s music industry. Therefore, popular musicians should prioritise their health as a matter of urgency in their quest to have a sustainable career. I hope this study serves as a moderate contribution to Ghanaian popular music scholarship, marks the beginning of a new direction, stimulates debates, and gives rise to
similar research in other creative arts traditions.

Alfred Patrick Addaquay (2023)

The article is a position paper that discusses the craft of compositions in African Art music in Ghana and highlighting a propositioned guideline in the performance of such created art musical pieces. Given the foundational inspiration from Euba’s notion of Interculturalism in music, there’s a noticeable lack of comprehensive documentation regarding vocal techniques aimed at advancing and instructing performers in the rendition of African Art musical performance. Regarding the selection of the compositions involved in this paper, transcription and analysis of the works were purposively selected, to consider how and why the techniques of various classifications were established in the compositions. It is envisaged that the study will serve as a work of posterity and an introduction to vocal techniques in the singing of African Art music.