13:30 - 15:00
The Making, Re-Making and Un-Making of Marriage in Ghana
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Navigating and Negotiating Marriage
Chair/s:
Kate Skinner
Discussant/s:
Kate Skinner
13:30 - 13:45
We-A33 Navigating Marriage 1-P-001
Transitioning from a marriage-like union to marriage: Accounts from couples in consensual unions in Accra, Ghana
Rosemary Obeng-Hinneh
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
13:45 - 14:00
We-A33 Navigating Marriage 1-P-002
Secularism and Interfaith marriage relationships in Zongo Communities in Accra, Ghana
Charles Prempeh
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
14:00 - 14:15
We-A33 Navigating Marriage 1-P-003
Resolving marital disputes at aban in Ghana
Jovia Haruna Salifu
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
14:15 - 14:30
We-A33 Navigating Marriage 1-P-004
‘Mobile phone marriages’: Contesting the ‘gatekeeping’ authority and agency of parents in the making of marriages in 21st century Ghana
Isaac Dery
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
14:30 - 14:45
We-A33 Navigating Marriage 1-P-005
‘Infidelity: when marriage matters’
Rachel Spronk
Associate professor, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands