Neologizing Akan Indigenous Ecological Proverbs and Wise-sayings for Earth-keeping among Akan Christians of Ghana

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Dr. Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah, is Senior lecturer in Biblical Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Theology at the Christian Service University in Ghana. He is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Development in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Biblical Studies) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi–Ghana. His research area is in the Biblical Studies, Old Testament and African Life and Thought and Biblical Hebrew interpretations in African context, Mother-tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Bible and Ecology. He majors in Old Testament exegesis, Old Testament Ethics and Old Testament Theology in African Context and Bible Translation Studies. He is a member of the international Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and Institute of Biblical Scholarship in Africa (IBSA).