Workbook
For British Ghanaian Families
Faith, Family Obligation, and Building a Life an Ocean Away from Home
Your family built something here without naming it. This is where you name it.
For the British Ghanaian family holding Ghanaian cultural identity, Christian faith, transnational obligation, and what it means to be from both Ghana and Britain.
The Name It First Experience
Your family carries Ghana — its values, its faith, its hospitality, its specific idea of what family means. Your family has also been building something in Britain that may not have a name yet. This workbook gives your family a structured space to name both: what British Ghanaian means in your specific household, what you carry on purpose, and what each generation gets to hold. What you produce is Your British Ghanaian Agreement. The output is not a history lesson. It is a family document.
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Sample questions
- What does your family carry from Ghana that Britain doesn't have a word for?
- What is the thing about family obligation that your generation and the next generation see differently — and has that been said out loud?
- What does being British Ghanaian mean in your specific household — and is that a definition your family chose together?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / cultural frameworks of Ghanaian ethnic identity (Akan cultural values, chieftaincy, family obligation), Ghanaian Pentecostal and mainstream Christian church identity in Britain / Ter Haar (1998) Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe applied to British Ghanaian church / British African identity (Lindley, 2002) / transnational family obligation and remittance culture in Ghanaian diaspora (Mohan & Zack-Williams, 2002).
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