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May 2007 |
| 1. | Trokosi practice on the increase | 30/05/2007 | | THE Reverned Walter Pimpong, Executive Director of International Needs Ghana, has raised concerns about the increasing practices of “Trokosi in parts of the Volta Region and called for strict enforcement of laws banning such practices in the country. | | | | 2. | Is Boti Falls Dying | 26/05/2007 | | THE Boti Falls, located in the Yilo Krobo District of the Eastern Region needs urgent attention to save it from total collapse. | | | | 3. | Pomp and Pageantry of Akwasidae | 26/05/2007 | | T
O every African, festivals hold a special place in everyday life. They are occasions for re-union, remembrance and merry-making. | | | | 4. | UNESCO/PAWA COPYRIGHT WORKSHOP | 26/05/2007 | | PARTICIPANTS at a two-day UNESCO/PAWA workshop on copyright have called for a stakeholder’s forum on the issue of the indigenous use of folklore. | | | | 5. | KOJO BOTSIO | 25/05/2007 | | MR. Kojo Botsio was an educationist, politician, member of the Legislative Assembly and Parliament, Minister of State for several portfolios, Political Agitator for ‘Independence now”, prison graduate for his part in the positive action declared in 1950, a member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and Secretary of the UGCC’s Youth Wing Committee of Youth Organisation. He was the first General Secretary of the CPP. | | | | 6. | PAWA Confab on Copyright Ends | 24/05/2007 | | PARTICIPANTS at a two-day workshop on copy-right have called for a stakeholders’ forum to discuss the issue of the indigenous use of folklore. | | | | 7. | OFY WAS DIVINELY INSPIRED | 23/05/2007 | | In January 1972, Colonel I.K. Acheampong, the Commander of 1st Infantry Brigade in the Ghana Army, staged a military coup d’etat and overthrew the government of Professor K.A. Busia and the Progress Party. | | | | 8. | THE MAN TETTEH QUASHIE | 23/05/2007 | | AT a crowded compound house at Osu, in the castle neighbourhood of Tolon, lives a I05-year-old woman, impaired in one ear but still healthy, vocal, militant and angry. | | | | 9. | Human right groups urged to fight trokosi | 22/05/2007 | | GENDER and Human Rights Groups have been asked to fight the obnoxious trokosi system under which young girls are sent to shrines to atone for crimes allegedly committed by members of their families. | | | | 10. | International Day of Museums marked | 21/05/2007 | | THE Ghana Museums and Monuments Board marked International Museums Day with a call on Ghanaians to patronize the country’s tourist sites. | | | | 11. | ‘Involve Chiefs in implementation of wildfire policy’ | 19/05/2007 | | THE President of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, Okatakyie Agyeman Kodum 1V, has advocated the involvement of traditional rulers and local authorities in the implementation of the National Wildfire Management Policy (NWMP). | | | | 12. | National Theatre is now free… Chinese govt. writes off debt. | 19/05/2007 | | CHINA has written off the construction cost of the National Theatre built in the early 90s as well as other projects. | | | | 13. | November proposed as cultural awareness month | 19/05/2007 | | The Ministry of Chieftaincy and culture has proposed the month of November every year as a cultural awareness month for Ghanaians to portray the Ghanaian personality at workplaces to promote made in Ghana goods. | | | | 14. | Resolve chieftaincy disputes | 17/05/2007 | | THE Right Reverend James Baffour-Awuah, the Methodist Bishop of Sunyani Diocese, has appealed to the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs and the various factions to make efforts to resolve the numerous chieftaincy disputes in the Brong Ahafo Region. | | | | 15. | Socio-cultural implications for women and leadership | 17/05/2007 | | THE celebrations of Ghana@50 have brought to the fore various issues among which the socio-cultural implications for women and leadership have surfaced. | | | | 16. | On Coming Home (III) | 15/05/2007 | | GETTING round in Accra and the rest of Ghana generally is an experience that can be frightening. On the major roads the drivers drive their vehicles as if they have a compact with injury and with death. They have seen both conditions and are assured that they, the drivers, have a place of honour in their kingdoms | | | | 17. | MANHYIA rocks to its foundation | 12/05/2007 | | “AS a religious festival, Adae is basically to remember the past leaders and heroes, who in a modern sense could be called saints. Though they are dead, their spirits are supposed to be alive and taking interest in the affairs of the living, watching their doings and consulting with them at Adae,” writes Emmanuel Kingsley Braffi in the pamphlet ’Akwasidae’ and Odwira festivals. | | | | 18. | Do Not Neglect Culture | 10/05/2007 | | In recent nation-building operations, culture has been at best an afterthought. | | | | 19. | Happy Akwasi-day! | 10/05/2007 | | Last Sunday’s Akwasidae Festival was a unique one. Beside its regular significance as a day set aside for offering libation prayers and thanksgiving to the ancestors, it also marked the 57th Birthday of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and the eighth Anniversary celebration of his enstoolment as Asantehene. | | | | 20. | NEW POKUASE MANTSE SWEARS OATH | 08/05/2007 | | ERIC Busby Quartey-Papafio, Ga Wet District Chief Executive (DCE), has called on the people of Pokuase to use Ghana’s Golden Jubilee celebration to unite and forge ahead to develop the area to attract investment. | | | | 21. | President calls for peace in | 07/05/2007 | | President John Agyekum Kufour has called for peace and unity among the chiefs and people of the Effutu Traditional Area for the sustenance and preservation of their cultural heritage and development. | | | | 22. | Involve queens in selection of chiefs | 05/05/2007 | | THE Queen of the Techiman Traditional Area, Nana Afia Abrafi 11, has expressed concern about the way King makers in the various traditional councils have sidelined queens and other female traditional leaders in the selection, installation and enstoolment of chiefs when stools become vacant. | | | | 23. | NEW POKUASE MANTSE OUTDOORED | 05/05/2007 | | Nii Oto Kwame 1V, the new Pokuase Mantse, addressing his people at the swearing-in ceremony at Pokuase. | | | | 24. | Riot at Gbese Palace | 05/05/2007 | | CANISTERS of tear gas and rounds of warning shots yesterday shook the central township of James Town in Accra as a heavily armed police detachment battled rampaging youths over the disputed Gbese Stool. | | | | 25. | THE MAKING OF A KING | 05/05/2007 | | On July 23, 2005, Peter Tenganabang Nanfuri, retired Inspector-General of Police, was enskinned Paramount Chief of the Jirapa Traditional Area at a private ceremony with only the kingmakers and a few traditional leaders present. | | | | 26. | MOTHER GHANA | 02/05/2007 | | Below are the lyrics of the Golden Jubilee Anniversary song which I composed for the occasion but which the National Planning Committee of Ghana @ 50 did not adopt. | | | | 27. | Stool disputes pose threat to security | 01/05/2007 | | Chieftaincy disputes have been identified as the main threat to local level security and peace in the country. | | | | |
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| 10/05/2013 | | LET’S DEVELOP BRONG-AHAFO TOURISM SITES | | Available records say the region produces about 30 percent of the food requirement of the country....more | | | | 10/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF TONGU | | The Tongu consist of a dialect group among the Ewe-speaking people and the Dangme-speaking people of Ada who inhabit the lower parts of the Volta River. Among the Akan speaking people, however, Tongu and Battor are identical, because the Battor were the first tribe to migrate up the Volta and to come in contact with the Akans there....more | | | | 10/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF NSOKO | | Nsoko Traditional Area forms an integral part of the Tain District in the Brong Ahafo Region....more | | | | 10/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF AKWAMU | | The founding fathers of AKWAMU in the Asougyaman District of the Eastern Region claim migrant origin from erstwhile Kumbu state cited in the mountainous region between the Black Volta and the Comoe Rivers in northeastern Cote d’lvoire where they are from the royal Kumbu lineage – a Vanished Dynasty!...more | | | | 10/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF SAKYIKROM | | SAKYIKROM is a town located at the foothills of the Nyanao Mountain, and shares a common boundary with Nsawam-Adowagyiri Township in the Eastern Region....more | | | | 24/04/2013 | | THE STORY OF OBO KWAHU | | According to Obo Ankobeahene Oral Tradition captured between 1985 and 1987 and supported by Adamu Yanko Oral Tradition, the first sight where the present Obo Township is situated was called Akropong....more | | | | 24/04/2013 | | THE STORY OF DUAYAW NKWANTA | | DUAYAW-NKWANTA is the administrative capital of Tano-North District Assembly, in the Brong Ahafo Region. And according to legend, the putative founder, Nana Dua Yaw, and the first queen mother, Nana Serwaa, and followers of the Ekuona clan descended from the sky on a gold ‘’atweaban’’ chain on a Friday. They landed in a dense forest on a spot known as Mankwaemu which later became the royal mausoleum....more | | | | 28/01/2013 | | THE STORY OF NSOKO (1 – 2) | | Nsoko Traditional Area forms an integral part of the Tain District in the Brong Ahafo Region. This traditional area shares boundaries with:...more | | | | 05/01/2013 | | THE STORY OF HO | | Traditions of origin suggest that they had migrated with a related group-the Ewe-speaking people from southern Nigerian. It is certain that the Ewe originally were in sphere of influence of the old Ayo Empire that flourished in the southern Nigerian....more | | | | 01/12/2012 | | THE STORY OF AHANTA (1 – 2) | | The AHANTA STATE and the story of the glorious era of Ahanta Traditional hierarchy prior to the recent creation of District Assemblies which significantly altered the early geopolitical morphology of the area, vis-á-vis, SHAMA-AHANTA EAST METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY (with its capital at Agona Nkwanta)....more | | | | 27/07/2012 | | The Story Of BOSO | | Boso Gwa Traditional Area forms an integral part of the Asuogryaman District in the Eastern Region. Linguistically, the people of Boso belong to the Guan ethnic bloc, and had lived in the Mid-Volta Basin long before the Akamu arrived from Nyanawase to establish a permanent home at Akwamufie, 1733....more | | | | 27/07/2012 | | The Story of PRANG | | Geographically, the Prang State is situated in the Atebubu-Amantin District in Eastern Brong Ahafo Region....more | | | | 27/07/2012 | | The Story Of BUEM | | JASIKAN is the Administrative capital of the Buem Traditional Area in mid-Volta Region, physically an integral part of the Togo-Atakora system, but historically a part of the former German Colony of “Schutzgebiet Togo”, 1899 – 1918, when Buem became part of Togoland under United Kingdom Trusteeship till Plebiscite was held in May 1956 to determine its unification with an independent Gold Coast....more | | | | 27/07/2012 | | The Story of BEREKUM | | BEREKUM Traditional Area in the Brong Ahafo Region shares boundaries with Wenchi (Tain District) to the north-east, Dormaa to the south, Sunyani to the east, and Jaman to the west....more | | | | 12/07/2012 | | The Story of Kwamankese | | The Kwamankese State forms an integral part of Abora – Asebu Kwamankese District Assembly in the Central Region. The state shares boundaries with Assin Attandaso in the north; Abeadze in the east, Abora in the south and west....more | | | | 12/07/2012 | | The Story Of BODWESEANWO | | The town of BODWESEANWO forms an integral part of the Adanse Traditional Area, and lies south-east of Fomena behind the Kusa hills. It is situated some 11 kiometers inland from Obuasi junction through Brofoyedru....more | | | | 12/07/2012 | | The Story Of SEKYEDUMASI | | Traditions claim that the royal Aduana lineage of Sekyedumasi, in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi District of Asante, originated from Asumegya-Asantemanso....more | | | | 12/07/2012 | | THE STORY OF SENYA – BERAKU | | The people of Senya – Beraku belong to the AWUTU AMANSA group of States comprising Winneba, Senya and Awutu who occupy the same geographical area in the Central Region on the coast. Linguistically, they speak the same language or related Guan dialects which are more or less mutually intelligible. Despite ties and language and culture they are largely independent of one another....more | | | | 04/04/2012 | | The Story Of Akwatia | | Akwatia is situated west of the Atewa ranges on the Asamankese Kade road.The founding fathers of Akwatia were once a branch of Akwamu.They were together with Akwamu throughout their migration from Human to Asakamu while the main body of Akwamu continued eastwards and settled permanently on the Nyanao Hill....more | | | | 16/03/2012 | | ELMINA CASTLE, A LIVING TESTIMONY TO SLAVERY | | The Elmina Castle, Edina, Anomana or Amankwaa Kurom — it has been called many names, but one thing will never change — the malevolent history of this relic of the trans-Atlantic slave trade....more | | | | 22/02/2012 | | "AZONTO CRAZE" | | “Azonto” is a Ghanaian dance which involves movement of most of the joints in the body in a rhythmic fashion taking very few steps. Just like most African dances, knee bending and hip movement are rudiments to dancing it....more | | | | 22/02/2012 | | ROLE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER IN ENSTOOLING OR DESTOOLING A CHIEF. | | Chieftaincy- Chief- Definition of – Requisites for making a chief – Constitution, Article 277.
Chief – Nomination – Fundamental requirement for making a chief – Role of queen mother – meaning of nomination – Nomination to precede all other processes for making chief – Ex post facto processes after nomination irrelevant for want of capacity to make nomination....more | | | | 27/10/2011 | | TRIBUTE TO EFO KODJO MAWUGBE BY THE MINISTRY OF CHIEFTAINCY & CULTURE AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CULTURE | | TRIBUTE TO EFO KODJO MAWUGBE BY THE MINISTRY OF CHIEFTAINCY & CULTURE AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CULTURE...more | | | | 17/10/2011 | | ADEKYEM FESTIVAL | | Under the able and inspirational leadership of Nana Fosu Gyeabour Akoto II, Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Area and President of the Bechem Traditional Council, Nananom introduced the ADEKYEM FESTIVAL to be celebrated by the Chiefs and people of Bechem Traditional Area, made up of the following towns and their villages: Bechem, Dwomo, Terchire and Tanoso. These towns together are known as “ATANOFO AKROTUONNAN”....more | | | | 28/07/2011 | | BEADS SHOW AT NGMAYEM FESTIVAL | | If you love beads and don’t mind getting caught up in a week filled with an exhibition and trade show, seminars and work- shops for beads sellers and producers, fashion shows with assorted beads accessories, beads design competition and bead- making lessons, then the place to head for between October 22 and October 29 is the 2nd International Bead Festival at Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region....more | | | | 19/07/2011 | | WHAT IS FOLKLORE | | The world Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) under what it terms Model provisions suggests an illustrative enumeration of most typical kinds of expressions of Folklore....more | | | | 11/11/2010 | | ‘LET’S UPLIFT OUR CULTURE’ | | Newly appointed Acting Director of the Center for National Culture, Greater Accra Region George Oppong...more | | | | 25/10/2007 | | Kwame Nkrumah misfounded Ghana | | THIS essay has been prompted by an introspection of Ghana’s fortunes since independence and the celebration of the Jubilee this year. The writer seeks to answer the question why there appears to be “something missing” somewhere in the scheme of affairs in Ghana’s development....more | | | | 12/10/2007 | | DR SUSAN DE-GRAFT JOHNSON – FIRST GOLD COAST FEMALE DOCTOR | | Dr (Mrs.) Susan de-Graft Johnson (Nee Ofori-Atta) was one of the three children Nana Sir Ofori-Atta I, the Okyenhene and Paramount Chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, had with Nana Akosua Duodu....more | | | | |
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