E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS) - ISSN 2720-7722

Adom, Dickson, Joshua Ebere Chukwuere, Irene Appeaning Addo, Emmanuel Tabi-Agyei, and Philip Foday Yamba Thulla. “African Proverbs for Cultural Education: A Step towards Digital Archiving.” Journal of History Culture and Art Research 10, no. 4 (2021): 44–59.

Aftab, Rizwan, Ayyaz Mahmood, and Muhammad Abdullah. “Language And Culture: A Study In The Sociolinguistic Perspective.” Journal of Positive School Psychology 6, no. 9 (2022): 5398–5412.

Al-Shami, Hanan Waleed, Hoda A S Al-Alwan, and Tamarah A Abdulkareem. “Cultural Sustainability in Urban Third Places: Assessing the Impact of’Co-Operation in Science and Technology’in Cultural Third Places.” Ain Shams Engineering Journal 15, no. 3 (2024): 102465.

Arizpe, L., and L. Arizpe. The Intellectual History of Culture and Development Institutions . Springer International Publishing, 2015.

Ayber, Pinar Ozdemir, and Zeina Hojeij. “Promoting Intercultural Awareness through Stories: A UAE Case.” Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education 9, no. 02 (2021).

Baker, Colin. A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism. Vol. 18. Multilingual Matters, 2014.

Barghi, Rabeeh, Zuraini Zakaria, Aswati Hamzah, and Nor Hashimah Hashim. “Heritage Education in the Primary School Standard Curriculum of Malaysia.” Teaching and Teacher Education 61 (2017): 124–31.

Carrà, Natalina. “Heritage/Culture and Social Cohesion in the Project of Metropolitan City.” Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 223 (2016): 583–89.

Cenoz, Jasone, and Durk Gorter. “Minority Languages and Sustainable Translanguaging: Threat or Opportunity?” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 38, no. 10 (2017): 901–12.

Clots‐Figueras, Irma, and Paolo Masella. “Education, Language and Identity.” The Economic Journal 123, no. 570 (2013): F332–57.

Dlamini, Phindile A, and Karen Ferreira-Meyers. “First Language Instruction? Eswatini Teachers’ Insight of the Eswatini Language-in-Education Policy.” Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 41, no. 2 (2023): 143–57.

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Fasold, R. W., and J. Connor-Linton. An Introduction to Language and Linguistics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 2014.

Fitzgerald, Colleen M. “Understanding Language Vitality and Reclamation as Resilience: A Framework for Language Endangerment and’loss’(Commentary on Mufwene).” Language 93, no. 4 (2017): e280–97.

Fitzgerald, Timothy. Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations. London: Routledge, 2014.

Fowler, R., and G. Kress. Critical Linguistics. Language and Control. London:  Routledge, 2018.

Gagliano, Monica, and Mavra Grimonprez. “Breaking the Silence—Language and the Making of Meaning in Plants.” Ecopsychology 7, no. 3 (2015): 145–52.

Gentry, Kynan. “History, Heritage and Localism.” Policy Studies 34, no. 5–6 (2013): 508–22.

Ghahramani, Ladan, Katelin McArdle, and Sandra Fatorić. “Minority Community Resilience and Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of the Gullah Geechee Community.” Sustainability 12, no. 6 (2020): 2266.

Gwerevende, Solomon, and Zama M Mthombeni. “Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Exploring the Synergies in the Transmission of Indigenous Languages, Dance and Music Practices in Southern Africa.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 29, no. 5 (2023): 398–412.

Hall, J. K. Teaching and Researching: Language and Culture. London:  Routledge, 2013.

Heidari, Adeleh, Saeed Ketabi, and Rezvan Zonoobi. “The Role of Culture through the Eyes of Different Approaches to and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching.” Journal of Intercultural Communication 14, no. 1 (2014): 1–15.

Hermes, Mary, Megan Bang, and Ananda Marin. “Designing Indigenous Language Revitalization.” Harvard Educational Review 82, no. 3 (2012): 381–402.

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Klamer, Arjo, Anna Mignosa, and Lyudmila Lyudmila. “Cultural Heritage Policies: A Comparative Perspective.” In Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage, 37–86. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.

Kramsch, Claire. “Language and Culture in Second Language Learning.” In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture, 403–16. Routledge, 2014.

Lähdesmäki, Tuuli. “Developing EU Heritage Diplomacy: Notions of Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Heritage, and Intercultural Dialogue among EU Officials and European Heritage Practitioners.” Ethnologia Europaea 51, no. 2 (2021).

Lee, Jack T. “Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: Emerging Education Hubs in Asia.” Comparative Education 51, no. 3 (2015): 353–74.

Lupyan, Gary, and Rick Dale. “The Role of Adaptation in Understanding Linguistic Diversity.” In Language Structure and Environment, 289–316. John Benjamins, 2015.

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Matthews, Margaret, and Jacqueline Van Wyk. “Speaking the Language of the Patient: Indigenous Language Policy and Practice.” South African Family Practice 58, no. 1 (2016): 30–31.

Maunganidze, Langtone. “A Moral Compass That Slipped: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Rural Development in Zimbabwe.” Cogent Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2016): 1266749.

McIvor, Onowa, and Jessica Ball. “Language-in-Education Policies and Indigenous Language Revitalization Efforts in Canada: Considerations for Non-Dominant Language Education in the Global South.” FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019.

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Pinto, Maria Rita, Alfonso Cecere, and Stefania De Medici. “Community and Public Cultural Heritage: A Chance to Satisfy Needs of Protection, Development and Social Cohesion.” In World Heritage and Degradation. Smart Design, Planning and Technologies, 61:1797–1805. La Scuola di Pitagora, 2016.

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Dr. Dickson Adom is a researcher in the pluridisciplinarity fields of Place Identity History, African Art, Art Installations,and Cultural Anthropology for Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Sustainability, and Heritage Sites Conservation. He is a lecturer in the Department of Educational Innovations in Science and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. For his scholarly and academically rigorous peer review activities for top-ranked publishers and journals such as SAGE Open, Taylor and Francis (African Identities), Springer, Elsevier and many others, he received 1%  Global Top Reviewer Award from Publons, New Zealand in 2018. He is a certified Publons Academy mentor and a Diamond Level Author at Ezines (U.S.A), with over hundred journal publications, more than ten book chapters, and over 200 e-articles. His recent project in partnership with the Botanical Gardens Conservation International funded by Foundation Franklina on indigenous knowledge on native tree species in Ghana could be downloaded at https://www.bgci.org/our-work/projects-and-case-studies/indigenous-knowledge-of-native-tree-species-in-ghana/

Dr. Philip Foday Yamba Thulla was born in Lunsar, Marampa Chiefdom, Port Loko District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. He holds a PhD in Literature. Dr. Thulla is currently the Acting Dean of the School of Basic Education at Njala University. He has published many articles in refereed journals and books with the Sierra Leone Writers Series and Llumina Press.

Dr. Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah was born in Levuma Kandu, Kenema District, Sierra Leone. He holds a master’s degree in Literature and is currently a Part-time lecturer at the Institute of Languages and Cultural Studies (INSLACS). Mr. Fofanah has published many articles in refereed journals.

Dr. Ralph Nyadu-Addo is a Senior Lecturer and currently, the Head, Department of Publishing Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana. He has been a Consultant in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management since 2000. From 2004 he has lectured at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Ralph was the first Head of the Industrial and Professional Relations (IPR), Centre for Business Development (CBD) and Kumasi Business Incubator (KBI) all in KNUST respectively. He led the team that developed the IPR, CBD and KBI concepts and sourced funding for physical structures, equipment as well as operational expenditure.

Rev. Dr. John Kofi Brewu is a Senior Music Educator at Akrokerri College of Education in the Department of Music (Creative Arts). Rev. Dr Brewu holds B.Ed Music from the University of Education, Winneba, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in African Art and Culture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His research interests and areas of expertise are in Cultural Anthropology, Aesthetics in musical artforms, Traditional music cultures, Music Education, and Church music in the Ghanaian Society. He is currently researching into the use of indigenous musical instruments in the worship service of the Roman Catholic Churches in Ghana.

Adom,Dickson, Philip Foday Yamba Thulla, Ibrahim Mustapha Fofanah, Ralph Nyadu-Addo & John Kofi Brewu. “The Perceptions of Indigenous Language and Cultural Synergy in Ghana and Sierra Leone: A Cross-Cultural Study,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 5, no.5 (2024): 701-716. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.20245510