Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery Picture Collections
One Day Workshop Date: 10th April, 2010 Place: Wa Pastoral Institute Registration Fee: Two Ghana Cedis Abstract Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery Picture Collections is part of an action research study focusing on the cultural history, individual as well as social biographies of religious and cultural life in Northern Ghana. It aims to focus particularly on the dynamic interchange and tensions between religion, culture, the economy and society as they evolved since the time of slave raiding in the mid 19th century and the subsequent planting of Christianity in Northern Ghana. The main objective is to identify and document the tangible and intangible archival institutions and materials of the societies of Northern Ghana in order to build a comprehensive and integral heritage movement of cultural and philosophical discourses within the global context of religious and social formations and transformations. As an action research project, the focused activities are based on three axes, na