The famous Kantamanto Market is located in the central business district of Accra. It is Ghana’s largest second-hand clothes market. A walk through the market shows a large number of traders in congested wooden stalls, selling their used clothes and footwear while calling out buyers to patronise their goods. Other traders have stationed themselves on […]
Monthly Archives: November 2020
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Among the Asante and other Akan peoples, stools play an important role in each person’s life milestones. When children learn to crawl, they receive stools as their first gift from their father. For young women, puberty rites entail sitting on their stools. A husband presents his wife with a stool when they marry. A deceased […]
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The historic Ashanti occupied an area of about 24,379 square miles, about 9,700of which are in the contemporary Ashanti Region of the Republic of Ghana (the formerGold Coast). The Ashanti created an independent kingdom which flourished from the 17th century until their conflict with the British at the end of the 19th century. Through the […]
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These people were killed under mysterious circumstances and till date the Ghana Police are yet to unravel the very people behind their deaths or why they were killed! It is widely believed some POWERFUL PEOPLE are behind their deaths… But how do you prove that? The Mystery continues! Whiles the Plot Thickens till infinity because […]
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Traditional religion in Ghana has been linked to human rights abuse on account of the widely-held belief that through the use of human parts, rituals could be performed to affect the material circumstances of the individual making the request. Consequently, some individuals were killed for purposes that must have been related to the performance of […]
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The Pan African Orchestra was founded in 1988 by the late Nana Danso Abiam to develop a new style of orchestral music that explores the classical foundations of African music, utilizing African traditional and neo-traditional sound sources and concepts as a framework point of reference. The Instrumentation of the Orchestra consists of: 16 atenteben flutes, […]
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The exact date the Methodist Church came to Mankessim, the heartland of the Mfantsepeople is not certain. Arkaifie states, for instance, that the Methodist Church in Mankessim was established in 1838. This is countered by the church‟s souvenir programme, which indicates that it was founded in 1836, immediately, after that of the Enyan Abassa society […]
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In the 1940s, there was a segregated hospital located on the hill over-looking Bantama Township called: African and European Hospitals. As their names implied, the African side treated Africans while the European side treated Europeans. However, on some rare occasions, high-ranking African government officials were given treatment in the European section. (Executive Treatment) By 1952, […]