Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah
Department of EnglishSocial Sciences

Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah

13 Publications12 Research Themes12 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus

The researcher investigates the profound interplay between language, metaphor, and cognition within African cultural narratives, employing literature as a powerful tool to explore social justice. Their work integrates performance, media, and education to examine diverse cultural contexts, focusing on themes of mediated perspectives, multilingual education, ethnomathematics, ecocriticism, historical integration, and literary approaches that honor cultural diversity.

Faculty Biography

Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah (nee Abakah) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and a Local Preacher at the Methodist Church. She holds a PhD in English and an MA in Comparative Literature from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Passionate about the strategies of escape for the subdued African woman, Philomena Ama Okyeso Yeboah's special focus is on Women's Writings in Africa, an area that engaged her research interest and has produced exciting articles published in peer-reviewed journals. She is an academician with great enthusiasim to work and contribute to the development of students.

Key Research Themes (12)
Social Sciences

African Education and Politics

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African history and culture analysis

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African history and culture studies

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Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research

Social Sciences

Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature

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Japanese History and Culture

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Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

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Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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Media, Communication, and Education

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Multilingual Education and Policy

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Music History and Culture

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Theatre and Performance Studies

Publications (13)

EVERYDAY STORIES AND UNTOLD TALES OF INFERTILITY: A LITERARY EXAMINATION OF AYOBAMI ADEBAYO'S STAY WITH ME

Open Access
2024Japanese History and CultureDOI: 10.24071/ijhs.v7i2.6802

The Difficulty of Reintegration: Examining the Child Soldier’s Post-War Life in Selected African Novels

Open Access
2023African history and culture studiesDOI: 10.29240/ef.v7i2.8307

The Heroine’s Monomyth: A Study of Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde

Open Access
2023African history and culture analysisDOI: 10.15642/nobel.2023.14.2.133-148

The Nature and Culture Binary in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness

Open Access
2023Ecocriticism and Environmental LiteratureDOI: 10.38159/ehass.20234910

Some Womanist Inscriptions in Ebony Reigns’ Song Maame Hwɛ: A Literary Approach

Open Access
2023Music History and CultureDOI: 10.9744/kata.25.1.16-30

“GRIEF AND RESILIENCE LIVE TOGETHER”: AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTHUR MILLER’S DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Open Access
2022Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary ResearchDOI: 10.22219/celtic.v9i2.23114

UNDERSTANDING THE CHILD SOLDIER IN UZODINMA IWEALA’S NOVEL, BEASTS OF NO NATION

Open Access
2022African Education and PoliticsDOI: 10.30743/ll.v6i2.6164

An African Perspective of Drama: The Case of the Homowo Festival among the People of Teshie, Greater Accra Region – Ghana

Open Access
2022Theatre and Performance StudiesDOI: 10.38159/ehass.2022386

“Proverbs are the Wisdom of the Streets”: A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Proverbs in Kemi Adetiba’s King of Boys Movie Franchise

Open Access
2022Language, Metaphor, and CognitionDOI: 10.38159/ehass.2022384

A Pragma-Stylistic Approach to Analysing Proverbs: A Review of Some Selected Proverbs in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God

Open Access
2021Language, Metaphor, and CognitionDOI: 10.38159/ehass.2021281

The tropology of Akan drum language

2021Multilingual Education and PolicyDOI: 10.4324/9781351184076-15

Understanding The Mad Heart: A Deconstructionist Approach To Efua T. Sutherland’s Edufa

Open Access
2018Literary Theory and Cultural HermeneuticsDOI: 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.2p.160

Haffali Mulla: A Hollow Merry Making Under the Moon Light? A Critical Appreciation of Traditional Marriage and Marriage Songs among the Pasaalas in Ghana

Open Access
2018Media, Communication, and EducationDOI: 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.1p.19
Academic Metrics
DepartmentDepartment of English
Total Publications13
Research Themes12
Open Access Papers12

Department of English

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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