Gideon Arku

Second cohort of the African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges / Deuxième cohorte du programme de Bourses africaines pour la recherche sur les savoirs autochtones et alternatifs (AFRIAK) .

Affliation: Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, social science college in the department of sociology and social work

Discipline: Sociology

Country / Pays: Ghana

Biographie / Biography: I am currently an undergraduate student at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology pursuing Bachelor of Arts in sociology. I am currently in my final year working on the project ‘student’s perception on the grading system in tertiary institutions’. From 2019 to 2022, I completed Ghana senior high school at koforidua-Ghana. I passionately read general arts which championed my admission into this prestigious university, Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology located at Kumasi.
I am affiliated to Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, social science college in the department of sociology and social work. Though a student, I am also a member of an association known as Asikasu Youth Association in the Eastern region of Ghana. Asikasu is a small suburb in the eastern region of Ghana with a population of about 2000. The village is counted among the major farming communities in the eastern part of the country.
Currently, I am the general secretary for Asikasu Youth Association which is a nonprofit organizational group which exist to help the indigenous local people to farm on a large scale due to provision of cheap labor. After helping members to engage in large scale farming, which is the major or main objective of the association, we have sidelined other specific objectives which includes, entrepreneurial training for members, serving as watchdogs for our village, cleaning the communities in the village.