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Transformation By Marion Kilson Brought from inner sequestration Into a guest-filled yard. Laid upon the ground at twilight; Lifted to the star— Not once but thrice. Distilled drink passes among guests; Each one whispers the name. Each one sips from a coconut. Each one whispers again— Not once but thrice. The trash heap no longer … Continue reading Transformation by Marion Kilson
ABETEI – Modern Gadangme Emblems Created by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil, Totem ISBN 978 1 899151 08 0 2016 Proverbial Gems I have always been fascinated by Adinkra symbols that were popularized by Professor Ablade Glover with the posters that he sold from his studio at La and I led many tourist in the 70s … Continue reading Proverbial Gems: Book review of ABETEI – Modern Gadangme Emblems
Book Review: Dancing with the Gods: essays on Ga Rituals by Marion Kilson (New York: University Press of America, 2013). By Gyau Kumi Adu (joewykay55@gmail.com/ https://joewykay.wordpress.com/) Analysis of Title The book’s central theme is about important discussions on Ga rituals based on case studies she conducted on the Ga people of Ghana. The title … Continue reading Dancing with the Gods: essays on Ga Rituals by Marion Kilson – a book review by Gyau Kumi Adu
BOOK REVIEW: THE OUTDOORING DEDICATION AND NAMING OF AN AFRICAN CHILD: A CEREMONY OF THE GADANGME PEOPLE OF SOUTHEASTERN GHANA – Ganyobi Kpojiemͻ Vol 1 by Ernest H.C. Tetteh (London: Ophelia Vanderpuye On-line Publishing, 2016). By Gyau Kumi Adu (joewykay55@gmail.com/ https://joewykay.wordpress.com/) Reflections on the Book The primal purpose of this book is to explain three interwoven … Continue reading The Outdooring, Dedication and Naming of an African Child – A Ceremony of the GaDangme People of SouthEastern Ghana – Ganyobi Kpojiemͻ Vol 1 Book Review by Gyau Kumi Adu
Ade Sawyerr 1 hr · Ghana has another opportunity to move forward as our democracy deepens. it must be a joy to all Ghanaians that we can now use the ballot box to effect change in government and not resort to the barrel of the gun. The fact is that military governments have done too … Continue reading New Opportunity Ghana – Welcome President Nana Addo
Accra! Love it or Leave it - to Asase on Ga anti-Ashanti Xenophobia I was recently forwarded a piece posted by good friend Asase on Say it Loud http://sil.ghanaweb.com/r.php?thread=11824875 and titled 'What fuels the anti Asante xenophobia among Gamei'. He writes "The purpose of this short essay is ...... the visceral xenophobic jingoism that many … Continue reading Accra! Love it or Leave it – to Asase on Ga anti-Ashanti Xenophobia
Yesterday, 18th October 2014 was one of those days. I had agreed to top a conference - Roadmap Ghana, organised by Star100, http://www.star100.org a group of young dynamic professionals in the UK who were celebrating their 10th anniversary. I had been asked to share my personal journey of the Ghanaian economy with them and decided … Continue reading With Willie Abraham at Star100 RoadMap Ghana
Preserving the past to inspire the future - Everyoungjba.org Increasingly I get excited when I see an old picture of myself at a much younger age; i am even more excited if the photograph is or a relative or relatives taken before i was born and this is not just related to the fact that … Continue reading Preserving the past to inspire the future:everyoungjba.org – Ade Sawyerr
How time flies, how the years roll by, how things change but the time for annual renewal is even more critical. 25 years is a long time in the history of a country and for an organisation to celebrate 25 years of unbroken association and service to the community is definitely an achievement that cannot … Continue reading Homowo – Asafotufiam – Nmaayem, 14th September 2013 at Colliers Wood
Migration, Urbanisation and Evolving identities - The Story of Adedainkpo in Old Accra By Gilbert Nii-Okai Addy December 2012 Adedainkpo in Old Accra - not many Ghanaians would know this today - was for over one hundred and fifty years, from the early 1800s to perhaps the 1950s , where nearly anyone who was anyone among the native African … Continue reading The Story of Adedainkpo in Old Accra
GARGANTUAN ! Linguistic Peregrinations of a Native Son By Gilbert Nii-Okai Addy The dictionary definition of the word “gargantuan” that has recently become enormously popular in Ghana and in “Ghenglish” ( Ghanaian English ) is “ extremely large or massive”. Related words or synonyms could be any among the following : giant, gigantic, jumbo, elephantine, colossal and perhaps … Continue reading GARGANTUAN !
We are not Jews or descended from Jews. We are Ga!!! by Ade Sawyerr London January 2013 Far too many times have I heard the myth repeated that the Ga are descended from Israel and in fact Jews. I have always restrained myself from responding lest I trample on the sensibilities of those who want … Continue reading We are not Jews or descended from Jews. We are Ga!!!
Afi oo Afi Afi naa akpe wɔ Kpaanyɔ anina wɔ Wɔ fee momoo Wɔ ye Gbo, wɔ ye Gbiena Alonte diŋ ko akafo wɔteŋ Ni wɔsεε afi lε wɔ tashi neke noŋŋ Ni wɔsεε afi le ehi eha wo fe neke Ni nyemi afee nyemi Ni afi aya ni ebanina wɔ ekoŋ Tswa ni omanye … Continue reading A Ga New Year Greeting
Okoampa-Ahoofe is barking! By Ade Sawyerr My attention has been drawn to an article by that Okoampa-Ahoofe, he of the pompous phraseology titled ‘Alhaji Bature is cracking’, http://ftp.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=253352 in which he added me to a list of people that he seems to have a problem with. This is what the pompous git wrote. The obverse side of the question, … Continue reading Okoampa-Ahoofe is barking! By Ade Sawyerr
I was searching through a file my late father kept for me when i started secondary school. It included in the main receipts for payments that he had made during the period of the sixties and also my less than impressive school reports, a source of much aggravation during the holiday period when he sought … Continue reading What is Christianity?
Tribute to my President: from a Ghanaian in London - by Ade Sawyerr His Excellency Professor John Evans Atta Mills President of the Republic of Ghana: from 7th January 2009 to 24th July 2012 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 -54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall … Continue reading Tribute to my President: from a Ghanaian in London – Ade Sawyerr
August 10th 2012 – Where do we lay our dearly departed President Mills to rest? By Ade Sawyerr The story has been told, I do not know how true, that a former Governor-General of the Gold Coast, who was born in Galt in Canada, was buried twice! One of the chiefs of the Gold Coast, Nana Sir Ofori-Atta had … Continue reading August 10th 2012 – Where do we lay our dearly departed President Mills to rest? By Ade Sawyerr
Rawlings – June 4th 1979 was not your finest hour, your best moment was January 7th 2001 - by Ade Sawyerr Retired military dictators, in the very few countries that tolerate military interventions, are allowed to lead the rest of their lives in obscurity drawing their military pension. But in Africa most turn themselves into … Continue reading Rawlings – June 4th 1979 was not your finest hour, your best moment was January 7th 2001 by Ade Sawyerr
Kwame Nkrumah: World Peace, African Unity and a United Ghana I start this retrospective with a quotation on African Unity by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and here I quote "We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together … Continue reading Kwame Nkrumah: World Peace, African Unity and a United Ghana
6th March 1957 – Independence Day Ghana – what about the future? *Published 5 years ago and being republished for the Ghana@60 anniversary I was not yet seven years old and only in Class 3, but there is no fog around the events of the day, I remember it as vividly as if it had taken place … Continue reading 6th March 1957 – Independence Day Ghana * – what about the future for Ghana@60?
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