ABSTRACT
The globalization process, the coming of the New World Order, is accompanied by frustration, crisis and disorder, which tests the family as an institution and what it has inherited from the traditional past. Children, mothers, and family life suffer enormously in the economically unstable and insecure conditions in which community violence occurs or threatens. In addition to manufactured goods, the ideas, education and western medicine arrived with British and German colonialism in northern Ghana. The colonial state, by giving support to anthropological and linguistic studies, contributed to the construction of ethnic identities which were unknown until then. While the process of economic and political unification of nation-states was taking place in Europe especially following World War II, in Africa the modern nation-state formed on the basis of educated elites without nations. In the light of the identification processes, the idea of global citizenship seems Utopian.
