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Feb 2009 |
| 1. | PAWA, google reach accord | 27/02/2009 | | The Pan African Writers’ Association (PAWA) has announced a $125 million settlement with Google over the digitization and show of in-copyright books. | | | | 2. | Paragliding Festival Off | 26/02/2009 | | This year’s annual Ferdinand Ayim Hang Paragliding Festival which forms part of activities marking the Easter festivities at Kwahu in the Eastern Region has been cancelled, a statement from the Ghana Tourist Board, organizers of the event has announced. | | | | 3. | Kojo Antwi plays at FESPACO | 26/02/2009 | | Music Maestro, Kojo Antwi, will be the main entertainer when the 21st edition of the Pan-African Film and TV Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) opens at the August 4 Stadium in the Burkina Faso capital next Saturday, February 28. | | | | 4. | Who are these women | 26/02/2009 | | If there is anyone out there who still thinks that a good, swinging band can only be made up of men or at best a combination of men and women, then a bunch of adventurous women, musicians is out to prove that person wrong. | | | | 5. | Axe hangs over Asem's Song | 26/02/2009 | | Next Tuesday will tell whether young looking and well-spoken hip-hop musician Asem, will have his very popular song “Give Me Blow” in the reckoning for an award in this year’s prestigious Ghana Music Awards | | | | 6. | Tourism carnival in Kumasi | 26/02/2009 | | The Ghana Tourist Board has organized a carnival in the principal streets of the Kumasi metropolis as part of its efforts to make people aware of the region’s tourism offerings | | | | 7. | Adabraka | 26/02/2009 | | Perhaps there is nowhere in Accra where one can find the largest collection of fine Ghanaian art works like the quarter-of-a-mile=square area in Adabraka, the Momotse Ordonaa Arts, located adjacent to the All Saints Anglican Church. | | | | 8. | A new Chief for lyssah | 25/02/2009 | | A New Chief, Naa Ahaale Gangman II has been enskinned and installed at the Lyssah Naayin (Palace) in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region. | | | | 9. | Hang Paragliding festival cancelled | 25/02/2009 | | This year’s annual Hang and Paragliding festival, which is marked as part of the activities marking the Easter festivities at Kwahu in the Easter Region, has been cancelled. | | | | 10. | Ghana to exhibit at Pan-African Cultural Show | 25/02/2009 | | The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture yesterday mounted an exhibition of Ghanaian artifacts to herald the Second Pan-African Cultural Festival slated for Algeria in July.The festival, the second to be held in Algeria in 40 years is dubbed “Rites of Passage | | | | 11. | Awutu Chiefs offer land for the health facilities | 25/02/2009 | | The Awutu Traditional Council has promised to release enough land at no cost for the construction of a permanent hospital and nurses quarters at Awutu Beraku any time the government is ready. | | | | 12. | Eastern region bead sellers want permanent market | 23/02/2009 | | The Bead industry is on the verge of collapsing as Members of the Beads Sellers Association in the Eastern Region have no permanent place to sell their products. | | | | 13. | Are funerals and naming ceremonies a drain? | 21/02/2009 | | Funerals in Africa which mark the celebration of the dead, naming ceremonies and even weddings have elicited mix reactions and feelings from many Ghanaians.
Many people have said that, funerals for example in Africa and particularly Ghana are part of the Africa heritage and culture and as such should be celebrated at all cost and give ‘our departed souls” the last respect, according to the customs of the land. | | | | 14. | Forgive him for he knows not the Kente he wears | 21/02/2009 | | Anyone whose work or leisure has something to do with culture and who watched the live telecast of Mr. Asum-Ahensah vetting must have been worried over how skewed the questions were towards chieftaincy affairs to the disadvantage of the other half of the ministry-culture. The way things went, it was impossible for anyone to determine how culturally savy the minister-designate was. | | | | 15. | Gomoa Akyempim, Buduatta Chiefs smoke peace pipe | 21/02/2009 | | The Paramount Chief of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Council, Obirifo Ahore II Ankonako Bonsu III, and Chief of Buduatta, both in the Central Region, have reconciled after a longstanding chieftaincy dispute between them. | | | | 16. | Hon. Alex Asum-Ahensah at the ministerial vetting | 19/02/2009 | | The third batch of ministerial appointees were vetted by the Parliamentary Sub-committee on Appointments on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. | | | | 17. | One common currency (The Afric) | 18/02/2009 | | The umbilical connections between the post and present were defined by Gamel Nasser, Ben Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, Nelson Mandela, and others, for a continental, African unity. | | | | 18. | THE ENSTOOLMENT OF OTUMFUO OSEI TUTUT II, ASANTEHENE (1999-2009) | 09/02/2009 | | Asanteman has lined up series of activities to mark the tenth anniversary of the enstoolment of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as Asantehene, the 16th Occupant of the Golden Stool of the Kingdom of Asante. | | | | 19. | Culture-9th Millennium devt goal | 07/02/2009 | | A network of arts administrators and artistes from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe last week resolved to lobby policy makers and governments to ensure that culture, as a tool for development, was accepted as the 9th Millennium Development Goal. | | | | 20. | 'Run Baby Run' for Paff | 05/02/2009 | | The feature film, Run Baby Run from the stables of Revele Films which won four awards at last year’s Africa Academy Award (AMAA) in Abuja has notched another success. | | | | 21. | Training workshop ends for culture reporters | 05/02/2009 | | Sponsored by the Cultural Initiative Support Programme (CISP) and the School of Communication Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, the workshop took participants through journalistic techniques that bring about effective cultural reporting. | | | | 22. | Give more attention to issues on culture- Prof. Hagan | 05/02/2009 | | The Chairman of the National Commission on Culture (NCC), Prof George Hagan, has underscored the need for the media to give ample space and time to cultural issues.He said that could be achieved if media personnel deepened their understanding of such issues which formed a vital part of society. | | | | |
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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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