A Phenomenological Study of Sexuality among the People of Tutu Akuapem-Ghana: Implications for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
Issues about human sexuality have generated serious discussion in both public and academic discourses. In Ghana, the recent frightening figures of teenage pregnancy and diverse reactions to homosexuality, gay, bisexual, and transgender in news outlets have heightened the exigency of sexuality del...
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Noyam Publishers
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2021271 https://doaj.org/article/941237fb8d8a444e95650e0852ef782d |
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| Sumario: | Issues about human sexuality have generated serious discussion in both public and
academic discourses. In Ghana, the recent frightening figures of teenage pregnancy
and diverse reactions to homosexuality, gay, bisexual, and transgender in news
outlets have heightened the exigency of sexuality deliberations among religious,
political, human rights activists, and social commentators. Amid the controversies
and difficulties surrounding sexuality matters, the question is how do Africans
maintain their ‘Africanness’ in search of expanded understandings and pedagogies
of sexuality? Which indigenous conventions and rites must be interrogated to
have the 21stcentury African child well informed and equipped to deal with his/
her sexuality? Using the phenomenological approach, the researchers sought to
examine indigenous sexuality rites and norms of the people of Tutu Akuapem
Community in the Eastern region of Ghana, focusing on puberty and marriage
rites of passage. The study argues for a carefully thought-out compromise between
custodians of indigenous values of sexuality and modern theorists and activists for
new(er) ways of conceiving, expressing, and teaching sexuality. It recommends that
the content of the newly designed curriculum of sexuality education in our schools
must be adapted to reflect African worldviews, values, and customs of sexuality. |
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