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CUTURAL NEWS
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
 

Otumfuo receives Yaa Asantewaa documentary

 THE Asantehene Otumfuo, Osei Tutu 11, has been presented with the epic television documentary, Yaa Asantewaa- The Heroism of an African Queen, and a companion book of the same title at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. 

At the Awukudae festival recently, the writer and producer of the documentary, Ivor Agyeman-Duah, expressed his appreciation to the Asantehene for his personal interest which led to the production five years ago when he started working on the project in Ghana and the Seychelles through the Centre for Intellectual Renewal and the Seychelles Broad-casting Corporation.

Since then Mr. Agyeman-Duah explained to the Asantehene and the chiefs that the story of the arrest of Nana Agyeman Prempeh 1 and leading chiefs of Asante to Freetown, Sierra Leone and eventually a 27 years exile in the Seychelles (after the Yaa Asantewaa war of 1900), has made in-roads in terms of Africa’s resistance to colonial rule.

It was also first premiered after round–table discussions at the Africa Studies Association conference in Nashville, Tennessee and afterwards adopted by two Universities in the United States for their African Studies programme. It was one of the official documentaries adopted by the Panafest Foundation and the centenary committee for celebration of Dutch-Ghana relation.

In the United Kingdom, he explained that it was the first Ghanaian documentary to be premiered at The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and highly appreciated at The Imperial War Museum where it was premiered with another documentary on the Iconic Slave Narrator-Equaino.

Mr. Agyeman-Duah said it was sad that five years after the production some major contributors to the story in Ghana and the Seychelles had passed on but the “spirit which led to the production of prominent roles played by women who are often neglected in the history of anti-colonial rule lives on.” The DVD version, currently on sale, he hoped would lead to better appreciation of that neglected fact.

The Asantehene commended Mr. Agyeman-Duah for his wok, and that the documentary (in which he as well as other prominent personalities such as the late Prof. Emeritus Adu Boahen, the Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi and anthropologist, Most Rev. Peter Akwasi Sarpong, the Foreign Minister of the Seychelles Islands, living descendants of King Prempeh in Seychelles are featured) is a bitter reminder of Anglo- Asante relations.

The Otumfuo Osei Tutu said he had accepted an invitation from the President of the Seychelles Islands, James AlixMichel, to visit the country and looked forward to doing so to re-unite with his grandchildren over a centenary after the exile of his uncle and royals.

 
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            Daily Graphic   -           Wednesday, July 18, 2007       Page:  30

 
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