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| 1. | Our Culture | 26/03/2011 | | Ghana has a rich indigenous culture. Culturally, the people of Ghana have many affinities with their French speaking neighbours, but each ethnic group has distinctive cultural attributes. In all parts of the country the cultural heritage is closely linked with religion and the institution of chieftaincy. | | | | 2. | Tamale cultural group tours Denmark | 26/03/2011 | | Thirteen members of the Youth Home Cultural Group (THCG) from Tamale last week left Accra for a five-week tour of a number of cities and towns in Denmark and Holland. | | | | 3. | THE STORY OF KWABEN | 26/03/2011 | | IT is worthy of note that the founding fathers of KWABEN in the Akyem Abuakwa traditional area, originally lived at Adanse Kokobiante near the Sebenso River under the overall leadership of Kuntunkrunku. | | | | 4. | World day of Theatre | 24/03/2011 | | Next Sunday, March 27 is the 49th Annual World Theatre Day (WTD) and theatres, individual artists, institutions and audiences around the globe are planning a variety of activities to celebrate the day. | | | | 5. | New Sanaahene for Ajumko | 21/03/2011 | | OKOKODURFO Agyeabo Kwamina Hamah Ababio II, Omanhene of Ajumako, has called on family heads to cooperate with properly installed chiefs for good leadership and development. | | | | 6. | Govt to maintain the sanctity of Chieftaincy Institution | 18/03/2011 | | President John Atta Mills on Wednesday said the government would do all it could to maintain and promote the sanctity of chieftaincy to bring development to the people. | | | | 7. | NCC BOARD MEMBERS CURRENT LIST | 15/03/2011 | | LIST OF NCC BOARD MEMBERS | | | | 8. | Chiefs, clergy hold consultative summit in Ho | 14/03/2011 | | THE Minister for Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Alex Asum- Mensah, has said chiefs and the clergy should regard themselves as partners in development and should initiate development projects to complement efforts of government in running the state. | | | | 9. | The Story of Awutu | 12/03/2011 | | ORAL tradition has it that the founding fathers of AWUTU in the Central Region, migrated from inland along the Volta River, till they reached the seashore, trekking westwards. They halted at a place called Awutu Ampi (Awutu Rocks) sometimes described as Bleku Abo (le. Sky-god Bleku’s Rock), about eleven miles west of Accra, which today forms the boundary-line between Accra and Awutu, popularly called MILE ELEVEN. | | | | 10. | The contribution of chiefs to nationalism during Gold Coast | 08/03/2011 | | CHIEFS are traditional rulers who preside over the people in communities. While some are elected others accede by inheritance as prescribed by the customs of the communities. In their palaces are traditional courts where local disputes and other cases are adjudicated to ensure the prevalence of peace and tranquility. | | | | 11. | The contributions of Cape Coast to the struggle for Independence. | 08/03/2011 | | SITUATED 165 km west of Accra on the Gulf of Guinea with an estimated population of over 70,000 is Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region of Ghana. which is also considered the citadel of the Fanti people. | | | | 12. | Jantuah: The last of Nkrumah’s cabinet | 07/03/2011 | | KWAME Sanaa-Poku Jantuah, in a previous name incarnation, John Ernest Jantuah, was an intriguing political player and diplomat. The youngest in Kwame Nkrumah’s First All African cabinet in 1954, he was, until his death in February 2011, at 89 years, the only survivor. His political life was both settled and unsettled; settled in the sense that he lived Nkrumaism to its full meaning. The unsettled part was that he also saw its disintegration in its internal ideological cleavages; with a future direction still unknown. | | | | 13. | Deputy University Registrar made chief | 07/03/2011 | | The Deputy Registrar of the Zenith University College in Accra, Mr. Thomas Kyere has been installed the Kronitihene of Kato, near Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region under the stool name Nana Kyere Gyeabour II. | | | | 14. | Let’s mourn Nkrumah | 05/03/2011 | | Let’s mourn Nkrumah | | | | 15. | Goethe-Institute marks 50 years in Ghana | 05/03/2011 | | GOETHE-INSTITUT, the German Cultural Centre of the federal Republic of Germany started operation in Ghana in 1961 and the plans have been drawn up for a 50th anniversary celebration on the theme The Past , Present & Future of making a Difference. | | | | 16. | Nii Amaa Akomfrah goes home | 05/03/2011 | | Death, the unannounced visitor, always causes shock waves whenever it arrives. That of Nii Amaa Akomfrah was no exception | | | | 17. | Anlos pray for Awoemefia | 05/03/2011 | | Anlos pray for Awoemefia | | | | 18. | The Story of banished ‘witches’ | 05/03/2011 | | THE story of banished women in Ghana has caught the ear of the international community, leading to some well-meaning interventions, one of which is spearheaded by the ‘Southern Sector Youth and Women’s Empowerment Network’ (SOSYWEN). | | | | 19. | Lost at sea, wiser in the end | 05/03/2011 | | The National Theatre in Accra donated early this week with, songs, humorous prologues and tradition as the Lost Fisherman, the first ever Ghanaian opera, was reenacted by the Saka Acquaye Memorial Theatre Group. | | | | 20. | THE STORY OF YEJI | 05/03/2011 | | THE Yeji Traditional Area is about 48 kilometres north of Atebubu in Brong Ahafo Region and it occupies the lands between the Pra and Volta Rivers suitable for both tilling and human habitation. The capital of the State is Yeji town located about 2kilometres from the bank of the Volta which forms the natural boundary between Yeji and East Gonja District of Salaga. | | | | 21. | Dr. Nkrumah and Arden-Clarke | 05/03/2011 | | Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, the last Governor of the Gold Coast, awoke up on the morning of 9th February 1951, at his headquarters at Christiansborg Castle- a seventeenth century slaving fort, from where British governors had ruled the Gold coast for fifty years, to be confronted by the most difficult decision of his career. | | | | 22. | Sekou Nkrumah hails Ghana’s democratic system | 03/03/2011 | | Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s First President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has commended Ghana for its democratic governance. | | | | 23. | Zenu Zongo insteals chief | 03/03/2011 | | ALHAJI Mohammed Bello, 45 year old proprietor of Chief Bello International School (CHIBSCO) at Zenu in the Ashaiman municipality, was last Sunday installed as the first Zenu Zongo chief at a colourful ceremony held here at the Lazio Park. | | | | 24. | Independence Day – 54 reasons to mourn | 03/03/2011 | | THIS March 6 will see another annual ritual of celebration; a celebration to mark the greatest day in the life of a dear nation. | | | | 25. | How can we simplify our funerals? | 02/03/2011 | | I ABSOLUTELY agree with the cultural belief that the dead must e given a decent send-off. After all we welcome the living to this would in style through ‘outdooring’ ceremonies so why not see the dead off as well? What puzzles me, however, is why the good news of an ‘outdooring’ is downplayed and the sad news of a departure is rather glamorized with all the expenses that go with it these days. | | | | |
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| 18/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF BOWIRI | | Geographically, the Bowiri State is situated in the south-east....more | | | | 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 | | | | 04/05/2013 | | THE STORY OF NTONSO | | An ancestor of the Dako clan by name Aberewa Yita lived at Asumegya Asantemanso, the exact location was Adwamu now a devastated area....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 | | | | 06/04/2013 | | THE STORY OF DENKYIRA (PART 1&2) | | Traditions claim that the founding fathers of Upper and Lower Denkyira in the Central Region originally lived in the Voltaic Region, south of the Niger Bend....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 | | | | 29/12/2012 | | THE STORY OF ASAMAN AND LAKE BOSOMTWE | | ASAMAN, an early Akan Settlement about seven kilometres from Asante Kokofu, was founded by Nana ADOMAKO ANSAH WHO HAILED FROM Adwafo near Kuntenase....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 | | | | 03/11/2012 | | THE STORY OF ADANSE AKROKERI (PART I&2) | | Adanse is well known in Akan Cosmogony as the place God (Odomankoma) traditionally started creation of the world, hence the expression: ‘Odomankoma created Adanse after the world’....more | | | | 01/09/2012 | | THE STORY OF KENYASE | | KENYASE is located about 10 kilometres from Kumase–Juabeng road....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 | | 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 | | | | 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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