Binji Seidu Zakaria

https://doi.org/10.64823/ijacc.2601008

This paper examined the potency and efficacy of TfD in promoting positive attitudes to sanitation practices in a rural community from a student practitioner perspective. The facilitator of this study employed the TfD methodology or intervention to address the sanitation challenges together with the community, which is viewed as action research. Poor sanitation has far-reaching effects across all aspects of human development, be it education, health, economic, or social. Poor hygiene and sanitation practices predispose the population to avoidable diseases, which exact a heavy toll on productivity. The increased volume of household waste generation has been a general concern for the Effutu Municipality waste management and disposal system, where most of the household accumulated waste ends up not being properly disposal off in most communities, resulting in health hazards, flooding, environmental degradation, and breeding sites for mosquitoes. Household waste is not properly disposed of in the Warabeba fishing community, leading to unsightly refuse dumps scattered all over the community. Such practices lead to poor sanitation coupled with numerous diseases. Poor sanitation could therefore thwart the government's efforts to fight poverty because most people would fall under that problem, and increase the medical bill for treatment. The effects of these practices on the Warabeba community members have not received the needed attention from TfD practitioners and researchers. This study therefore seeks to bridge these gaps in knowledge.

https://doi.org/10.64823/ijacc.2601007

This thesis conducted a synchronic evaluation of the TfD studies carried out by Ansah and Adamah (2015) and Borzah, Mensah, Bediako, and Aryeetey (2019), and provided two (2) separate illuminative reports on them as a single dissertation. The former highlighted the pivotal role of parents in advancing their wards’ education, while the latter addressed proper waste disposal practices in Osubon City. This study did a rigorous analysis and gave a clear picture of the goals, objectives, and activities of these previous projects and brought to light the results produced (the impacts), the expected benefits delivered, and their associated issues. The study concludes that the projects have ably made some significant improvements in the community, but there are/were some challenges associated with the projects that both Osubon City and the DTA must take notice of and then take corrective actions on them. This study, therefore, only provided the ingredients needed for quality assurance and improvement of TfD projects carried out by facilitators under auspices of the Department of Theatre Arts (DTA) at the Osubon City and the TfD programme as a special area of study, unless future facilitators, the DTA, and the Osubon City itself pay heed to the lessons of this evaluation study and then take the needed corrective actions. The stakeholders in these projects, especially Osubon City, must obtain and act responsibly on or make sound use of these evaluation findings and recommendations on the projects, especially the sanitation issue, as a matter of urgency. Because the filth is vehemently regaining its root in the community subtly, and that is a threat to the community and should be relooked at. The study further concluded that education appeared as an individual responsibility because its sustenance at the individual level was/is very high, while sanitation seemed like a collective/community responsibility, which witnessed a very impressive effort at the community level in terms of sustenance of the sanitation project. This is a qualitative study that relied extensively on interviews, observations, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and secondary materials, including previous Project Reports (PRs) submitted to DTA, books, and journal articles, that were used to corroborate the information obtained from the primary data. This study will be a valuable document for the DTA, Osubon City, TfD Lecturers and Practitioners because it will aid in teaching and learning of TfD as a special field of study. M Phil. Thesis Submitted to the University of Education, Winneba in 2021.

https://doi.org/10.64823/ijacc.2601006

This study sought to evaluate the animated video on the following themes: Storyline, character(s), setting, costume, plot, sound effects or scores and moral lessons, among other theatrical technicalities, to ascertain if indeed it has achieved its goal of projecting and preserving Ghanaian cultural heroes and heritage, respectively, as well as the purported related moral values. Through a qualitative study and a single-case study design, the 2D animation, which was selected from a secondary source, was evaluated using content analysis. As revealed by Nkrumah-Abraham (2022), foreign animations which do not reflect Ghanaian cultural values, characters and heritage are dominating the Ghanaian media space and therefore pushing the act of traditional storytelling into extinction. Ghanaian folktales, which have been a medium for instilling moral values, revealing and revering cultural heroes or heroines, have seen a dreadful decline over the period. And in effect, the nation as a whole is losing the benefits it derives from traditional Ghanaian mythical stories or folktales. He further posits that an intervention to remedy the situation or mitigate its repercussions is to project indigenous Ghanaian stories through animation and other audio-visual media. To that effect, a 2D animation on the story of Asebu Amenfi the Giant, a traditional hero and founder of the Asebu Kingdom, was produced. This study considers the animation as a tool for preservation of historical and cultural narratives of the Asebu Community as well as a reflection of their cultural values and identity. The study therefore recommends a more deliberate means of distributing the 2D animation in the multimedia space, towards the promotion of indigenous Ghanaian content. Keywords: Theatre; Animation; Culture; Heritage; Identity; Asebu Amenfi; Ghana