The Halloween-like fancy dress New Year Festival that began over a century ago in Ghana as a mocking satire of colonial life is still thriving today, with hundreds of people dressing up and wearing bizarre expressive masks! According to African-research.com Ghanaians in Winneba began forming masquerade groups in the 1920’s to Poke Fun at the Life and […]
Monthly Archives: December 2020
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The Guan people comprising of 28 ethnic groups migrated to Ghana in AD1000 and are scattered across seven regions. This year, AD 2020 marks 1,020 years of their entry into Ghana. The late Anyenum Kwame Ampene from Anum Boso in 1981, launched the Guan Socio_Cultural Renaissance at Ajumako that give birth to the Guan Congress […]
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A shameful legacy that echoes into the present — and shouldn’t be buried in the history books. In the late 1800s, colonial exhibits became popular in the western world — exhibits that not only showcased artifacts but actual people. In the era before cinema, these shows allowed westerners to see the foreigners they’d only heard […]
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Operational Christianity started 267 Years ago. (As at December 2020) The most momentous discovery in western Africa came in 1471, when Portuguese captains first reached the coast of modern Ghana between the mouths of the Ankobra and Volta rivers. Yes! Some of the missionaries came with them (549 years ago) but many died from the […]
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After the death of Ago, his successor Ago Akoli became king just before the middle of the seventeenth century. According to all accounts he was an energetic and dynamic leader, and he ended some of the proscriptions that inhibited the exercising of his function as leader. Unfortunately, things were not exactly the same during the […]
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There are many different schools of thought about the origins of the Ewe tribe, with a school of thought tracing the origin as far back as an earlier settlement in Adzatome, a suburb founded by Ham, the second son of Noa in the Bible; Noa being the progenitor of various tribes. It is here that we […]
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She is believed to be the greatest Akonedi priestess who ever lived. Okomfohemmaa (priestess) Akua Oparebea was born in 1900. Both her father and mother were from distinquished royal families. While she was yet a suckling, her aunt professed under fetish influence proclaimed that she would be a fetish priestess who would one day be […]
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The Shrine had its ancient roots from a lady called Nedi who was the daughter of a man called Akon from Kubease. Nedi is said to have become pregnant and to have died (perhaps during childbirth) in the bush on the outskirts of Kubease. A search for her body revealed only an Anthill. According to […]
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Mahama taught high-school history for a few years before pursuing a postgraduate degree in social psychology from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, which was awarded in 1988. After Mahama returned to Ghana, he worked in Accra as the Information, Culture, and Research Officer at the embassy of Japan until 1995. He then worked […]