Category Archive: CULTURE

FOREWORD TO THE SITE

FOREWORD Revolutionary Pan-Africanism cannot but project an ethnographic re-demarcation of Africa for a liberated and unified continent under the socialist People’s Republican State of Africa. The need for re-demarcation to reverse the arbitrary… Continue reading

IN LIEU OF A PREFACE

PERSONHOOD IN A COMPLEX WORLD AN EXTRACT FROM MARIJKE STEEGSTRA’S DIPO AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN GHANA The focus in this chapter has been on the performance and attendance of life cycle… Continue reading

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (01)

DEDICATION TO THE LATE ELDER STEPHEN NANOR MATE-KOLE A SON OF KONOR NENE SIR EMMANUEL MATE-KOLE

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (03)

A BRIEF ANALYTICAL HISTORY OF THE KROBO AN EXCERPT FROM VEIT ARLT’S CHRISTIANITY, IMPERIALISM AND CULTURE   Krobo Mountain heap in the background to the right – The Klo Ancestral Home    … Continue reading

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (04)

AN INSTANCE OF AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY THE KLO NGMAYEM FESTIVAL The unique co-existence of a Christian Chapel and an African Shrine in very close proximity to each other at the Manya Krobo capital… Continue reading

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (05)

FIRST BASEL MISSION CHAPEL BUILT IN 1869-70

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (20)

A PORTRAIT OF THE LATE MATE SETLOLOR IN PRAYER

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (31)

SPRINKLING OF FOOD ON KLUTU – MATE SETLOLOR RETURNS WITH MILLET FOOD (NGMA) TO FEAST WITH KLUTU

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (42)

MANYA KROBO WOMEN FULLY PARTICIPATED

AFRICAN DUAL IDENTITY (45)

ARRIVING AT THE FESTIVAL GROUNDS (GUAM)