The ascension of Nana Afia Kobi of the Oyoko clan to the highest female throne in the Asante Kingdom on 8th December, 1977 ensured a continuous preservation of the time honoured cultural values and customary practices of Asanteman. Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, was born in 1905 in Kumasi to Nana Yaa Birago (Nana […]
Author Archives: Henry Kwadwo Amoako
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Highly Respected King of The Ashanti Kingdom Nana Kweku Duah with the Legendary stool name: Otumfuo Osei Tutu II who is the life patron of Asante Kotoko is celebrated his 70th Birthday on May 6 2020. Known in private life as Barimma Kwaku Duah before ascending the throne in 1999 to succeed the late Otumfuo […]
RESEARCH, TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Potent Plants in Africa: CANCER BUSH Scientifically Called Sutherlandia Frutescens
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This plant is commonly found in South Africa. It is a Perennial shrub which grows up to 2mwith Bright red flowers. The parts which are used for medicinal purposes is the dried twigs and leaves. Medicinal Uses: An Adaptogenic bitter tonic – normalises body functions. Increases body’s ability to adapt to environment, resistance to disease […]
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She hold a Diploma in Communications from African University College Of Communications and Bachelor’s Degree in Advanced Communication too! Before coming to Peace Fm she was working for Radio Mercury in Kumasi, when she was approached by Peace FM and she accepted. She started radio right after leaving secondary school. She was at Mercury for […]
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Senior Eddie Donkor was born on 6th March 1942 at Akropong-Akwapim, in the Eastern Region of Ghana. On that same day elsewhere in the world, great artistic icons such as Charles Tolliver (the Great Trumpeter on Jackie McLean’s Blue Note albums and co-founder of Strata-East Records), Paco Cepero (Spanish Flamenco artist who worked as an […]
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Onyeka Onwenu began her music career in 1981 while still working with the NTA, releasing her first album “For the Love of You”. She was originally a secular artiste when she began singing, but now she sings mainly gospel music and continues to write and sing about issues such as health (HIV/AIDS), peace and mutual […]
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Onyeka Onwenu is a famous Nollywood actress, singer, songwriter, recording artiste, journalist, politician, social activist, human right activist, X Factor series judge, television personality, politician, entrepreneur and a philanthropist. She was born on 17th May 1952 in Obosi, a small town in Anambra State in the south eastern part of Nigeria. She is currently 67 […]
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This all was a perfect canvas, onto which Sunday laid the melodic patterns of rock-n-roll, guitars, rhythms, and modern colors. Under this scheme, he produced two of his very first albums, the 1977’s Sound Vibration and the 1979’s The Royal Sound. They gained terrific success. After the success of these two albums, Sunny Ade was […]
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Born Sunday Adeniyi, King Sunny Ade has been perfecting his Nigerian juju beats for decades. By now, he’s achieved legendary status: Some know him as the African Bob Marley. The son of a church organist, Ade knew from a young age that music was his life’s passion. He left grammar school in the 1960s, started […]
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On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and […]
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Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the ‘Great Leap Forward’ and the ‘Cultural Revolution’. Mao was born on 26 December 1893 into a peasant family in Shaoshan, in Hunan province, central China. After training as a teacher, he travelled […]
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Patience Ozokwor popularly known as Mama G is a veteran Nollywood actress, television personality, an entrepreneur, an evangelist and a philanthropist. She was born on 25th March 1958 in the village of Amaobo, Ngwo, Enugu State in the south eastern part of Nigeria. The veteran actress got married at the age of 19 in an […]
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In 1965, Soyinka was arrested by the Nigerian government for allegedly holding a radio announcer at gunpoint to broadcast false election results. A wide campaign by the international community of writers resulted in his release after three months. Nigerian government imprisoned him yet again for 22 months during the Civil War. He was accused of […]
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka the man popularly referred to as Wole Soyinka is Arguably the Most Prominent consistent Nigerian that has ever lived in Modern History. All through his adult life, the world acclaimed playwright and Nobel Laurette has maintained a reputation that has seen him staying relevant all through the political journey of the […]
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Archaeology findings show that Sierra Leone has been inhabited for thousands of years. Traditional historiography has customarily presented it as a people by successive waves of invaders; but the language pattern suggests that the coastal Bulom (Sherbro), Temne, and Limba have been in continuous settled occupation for a long time, with sporadic immigration from inland […]
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Gyima left Adanse Ayaase together with his clan brothers and embarked on escaping the numerous wars that were plaguing the Adanse area by the then powerful Denkyira forces. The clan brothers like Nana Boahene Anantuo, Nana Mposo Frimpong and Nana Adu Gyamfi settled at Mampong-Ashanti, Ashanti Effiduase and Ashanti Gyamase respectively. Till today, these three […]
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Historian Nkansa –Kyeremanteng (2000: 36 and 37) gave three (3) analyses and perspective about the formation of Kwehu Townships. Kyeremanteng indicated in his write up that the movements of the three main Kingdoms are Kowu Kingdom, Akoawu Kingdom and Kodiabε Kingdom. Most of these kingdoms were corrupted and became Nkawkaw. Kyeremanteng states that “Bepong was […]
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The Kwehu people speak a dialect of Akan language called Twi and live specifically in the mountainous Eastern Region of Ghana in the towns such as Abene, Abetifi, Pepease, Atibie, Nkwatia, Obo, Bepong, Tafo, Akwasiho, Obomeng, Twenedurase, Nteso, Mpraeso, Asakraka, Aduamoa, Pitiko, Sadan, Burukuwa, Nkantanane, Ahinasie and Donkorkrom. Macmillan and Kwamena Poh (1965) described the […]
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After engineering the coup that resulted in Olympio’s death in 1963, Eyadéma invited Nicolas Grunitzky, Togo’s first prime minister, back to head the country. (Grunitzky had lost power to Olympio in 1958.) Grunitzky attempted to institute a constitutional multiparty government in Togo, but his efforts came to naught, and the increasingly popular Eyadéma began to […]
POLITICAL HISTORY, RESEARCH
The Assassination of Sylvanus Olympio of Togo and The Rise of Eyadema : Part 2
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President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Africa’s longest-serving ruler, died at the age of 69 on February 5th 2005 while en route to France for emergency medical treatment, the Togolese government said in a statement. Mr. Eyadéma was one of the last of a breed of postcolonial lions in Western Africa, governing without compromise for more than 37 […]