Agogo is a town in the Asante Akim North District. It is the administrative capital of Asante Akyem North Municipal. Agogo is approximately 80 kilometers east of Kumasi located at 6.80004 (latitude in decimal degrees), -1.08193 (longitude in decimal degrees) at an elevation/altitude of 396 meters. The average elevation of Agogo in Asante Akim North […]
Author Archives: Henry Kwadwo Amoako
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After migrating from Adanse, later to Asuom, the ancesters of Juaso settled at the banks of the Dwabo river. Most Akan settlements were built on banks of rivers. This was because, they migrated by foot for months from place to place due to wars and unfavourable environmental conditions and will sometimes find it difficult to […]
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The ancestors of the Bompata people were the Amantena people who deserted their hometown during the civil war between Juaben and Kumase in November, 1875. The remote cause was that the then chief of Amantena had many years ago, refused to allow an Amantena woman to attend the funeral of King Opoku Ware I (1731 […]
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Atibie is one of the towns encapsulated in the Kwahu Traditional Area and the Twi-speaking Kwahu ethnic group in the mountainous Eastern region of Ghana. The town lies on the west of Mpraeso. River Asuboni flows between Atibie and Mpraeso and serves as the natural boundary (Opoku-Asiamah, 2020). The town’s appellation is Ɔtwerefo Tim nana […]
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The Akwamu were originally called Aduana Twifo but got the name “Akwamu” or “Akwamufo” when they were moving from their settlement at Twifo Hemang. According to highly acclaimed Ghanaian Historian, Henry Kwadwo Amoako, the Akwamu (ah-kwah’-moo) got their origin name from the Akan term “kon bu” meaning neck (kon) break (bu). When the Akwamu army […]
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Africa is the home to over 3,000 tribes and 2,000 languages and dialects. Africa is home to approximately one-third of the world’s languages. The diversity of Africa’s languages is evidenced by their populations. In total, there are at least 75 languages in Africa which have more than 1 million speakers. Now let’s focus on Nigeria […]
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The earliest copy of the Negro or Slave Bible was published in 1807 ( the same year the Slave Trade Act prohibited slave trade in the British Empire). This strange Bible contained only parts of 14 books! The publication happened three years after the Haitian Revolution ended. That revolution was the only slave revolt in […]
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Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (or the Bapedi people) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. The Bapedi originated from the Bakgatla and moved to the Eastern-Central Transvaal. This was where they built a powerful empire in Bopedi, by a skilful combination of diplomacy and military conquest. Their motto, “Fetakgomo o […]
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Cults first began to appear in the mid-1800’s, possibly as an exploitive response to the work of Sigmund Freud and other early psychologists. The first important cult research was done by Robert J. Lifton in the 1960’s. The word “Cult” entered English from the French word “culte,” which derived from the latin “cultus,” meaning “care […]
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Thailand was originally called Siam, “The land of the White Elephant” or The country of Muang Thai (Land of the Free). The Thais have their own culture (including literature, drama, architecture, music, painting, sculpture, folk dances, and many handicrafts), their own language, their own cuisine, their own martial arts, and their own beliefs, with influences […]
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Middle East, with an area of 2.24 million sq. km. (nearly 2/3rd the size of India). It is the 14th largest country in the world. It occupies 80% of the legendary and ancient Arabian Peninsula. One-third of the land is desert which includes a […]
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Charles and John Wesley founded the Methodist movement in 1729 ( at Oxford University) Charles (born prematurely in 1707) was the younger brother of John! (born in 1703) Charles was the main hymnist in the family, but John also translated a number of hymns (mostly German) himself. John began studying the German language on board […]
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Christmas originally known as “Christ Mass” in Roman Catholic Realms has become a worldwide secular entertaining festive season. 25th December 336 AD was when the church in Rome began formally celebrating Christmas, during the reign of emperor Constantine The Great (272 – 337 AD). Because Constantine made Christianity the effective religion of the empire, some […]
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Razia Sultan the first and only female Muslim ruler of medieval India (1236 – 1240), was also known as Raziya Al Din. She was of Turkish Seljuks slave ancestry and was trained to lead armies and administer kingdoms. Razia Sultana was the fifth Mamluk Sultan. She appointed an Abyssinian slave, Malik Jamaluddin Yaqut, to the […]
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Gerald Bogle Levy better known as Bogle and also as Bogle Dancer, Mr Bogle, Father Bogle and Mr Wacky, was a Jamaican dancehall star, dancer and choreographer. Beenie Man (one of the dancehall legends from the early 90s) called Bogle “the greatest dancer of all time” and recognised as “part of the foundation and as […]
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After Jesus rose from the dead and left the earth, Mary Magdalene stayed in Jerusalem for sometime but left with her brother Lazarus when the Romans persecuted the church for fun and as entertainment killings during their paganic festivals. She fled to France, then called Gaul and preached the good news of Christ there. According […]
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The Epic of Gilgamesh consists of tales of an ancient king which started as different stories and poems dating back at least to the Sumerian 3rd Dynasty of Ur (ca 2100BCE). They were later combined into what is now known as the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, which became a popular piece of literature in ancient Mesopotamia. […]
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More than 1,500 years after creation, when antediluvian men (men who existed before the great floods) had penetrated into all parts of the eastern hemisphere, but probably had not yet crossed the great rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, there lived in old Babylonia, then called the land of Nod, a husband of the family of Lamech, […]
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The term “Caucasian” connotes different interpretations, depending on perspective and context. Literally speaking, “Caucasian” refers to people from the Caucasus mountain region, which includes Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, parts of north Iran, and central southern Russia. This is a geographical ancestry term, which could have implications for genetics if used precisely. However, “Caucasian” today wrongly refers […]
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The modern country called Iraq (which developed out of ancient Babylon) has been a cradle of civilization since 4,800 BC. The first systems of writing and justice are believed to have originated from Sumeria and Babylon (now Iraq). The Sumarians, an ancient people, are claimed by white scholars to be of unknown origin because they […]