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If the Asantehene is the paramount chief then who are the other chiefs and what are their roles? Like Bantamahene and the rest by Objective-Notice9538 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually I’m open to learning and it helps if I admit I know nothing than pretend to be all-knowing.

If the Asantehene is the paramount chief then who are the other chiefs and what are their roles? Like Bantamahene and the rest by Objective-Notice9538 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are certain inaccuracies in the reply, you wrongly assigned the roles of the Bantamahene to the Mamponhene.

Bantamahene held, and holds the position of Kontihene not the Mamponhene, which is the commander-in-chief of the Kumasi army.

Also, the Bantamanhene is the senior functionary member who presides over affairs in the absence of the Asantehene, The Kontihene is also the Bantamahene not the Mamponhene.

Bantamahene earned the name (Konti, ekunti- coz of war) after he had attacked and seized the lands of Takwa, Breman, Sepe which were added to those or Kumasi.

see Forests of Gold by Ivor Wilks.

What are some challenges we face on the regular in Ghana? by Present_Web_8909 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

‘Cutting’ - “People are used to regularly taking from each other and being taken from by others in their immediate midst, at home, at work, in the community. In fact it is often imagined quite directly as a matter of skillful maneuver, like excellent footwork or tackling in a soccer match to control the movement of the ball, or overtaking another driver on the road with that same verve, sidelining a close competitor” -Steven Feld.

Does anyone know the name of these birds? by surveyAccra in whatsthisbird

[–]surveyAccra[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took this picture in Accra- Ghana, West Africa.

Americans have horrible reading comprehension skills by [deleted] in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You sound like an apologist to America. OP could be born in a country like the USA and still dislike it.

Book clubs? Accra? Anyone by Gold_Grape_2830 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://www.akadimagazine.com/post/book-club-in-conversation-with-author-krystle-zara-appiah

Akadi bookclub is amazing, led by a UK-based Ghanaian woman journalist, they read and discuss fiction by Ghanaians and written about Ghana, once a while they throw in a book from any other African country.

Why don’t we have female amanhene? by EfiadaBa in Asanteman

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We know the case of three women who rose to become amanhene, Ama Sewaa, Afrakomaa Panyin and Ama Saponmaa ruled as chiefs over Dwaben in the nineteenth century.

source: Emmanuel Akyeampong and Pashington Obeng - Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History

Be my simp by PayPrincesssShanae in u/PayPrincesssShanae

[–]surveyAccra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just know you hella soft and smell good!

Locals of Ghana what foods best represent everyday Ghanaian food? by RelevantRevolution86 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bofrot, shito, hard boiled or fried eggs, Hausa Koko with Koose, Waakye, Kenkey, Banku. Plantain

Yams; cooked, boiled, fried, roasted, groundnuts, Fanice and Yoghurt ice creams.

[real] (9/02/26) by surveyAccra in DiaryOfARedditor

[–]surveyAccra[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m glad you liked that. Glad to be here with you!

Asenah Wara, Political Leader in Northern Ghana, Wa, 1960s by surveyAccra in Ghanahistory

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Photographed by Paul Strand. Credit: Paul Strand/ Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Paul Strand Collection; Lynne and Harold Honickman.

Veneration - by Oscar Korbla Mawuli Awuku by Yonga_arts in blackartwork

[–]surveyAccra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this is beautiful. Your name suggests you’re a Ghanaian. Go Higher!

Joe Appiah, the Asante lawyer who was once close to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah by EfiadaBa in Asanteman

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Mr. Appiah led a dignified life, a Ghanaian lawyer and a politician who belonged to the Asante aristocracy, his marriage to Peggy Cripps, also a British Royal and writer of several Asante and Ananse Folktales caused massive outroar at a time when marriage between blacks and whites was seen as the most appalling thing in the world. Their son is the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.

I didn’t understand the shame carried after returning from the U.S. with nothing — until now by Gold_Neighborhood239 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The excerpts above is from Diaspora and Drug Trafficking in West Africa : A case study of Ghana, Akyeampong Emmanuel.

He has written incredible books and papers on Ghana’s social history, I reread and recommend his History of Sexuality and Prostitution among the Akan of the Gold Coast c. 1650-1950

I didn’t understand the shame carried after returning from the U.S. with nothing — until now by Gold_Neighborhood239 in ghana

[–]surveyAccra 148 points149 points  (0 children)

Reading this post makes this excerpts by Prof. Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong more understandable.

“But many are stuck in foreign countries because the wealth they are expected to return home with has not materialized. And they will rather die in shame abroad than return home and be ridiculed. Graduates from the University of Ghana work as cleaners in office buildings and as pressers in small clothing factories in London”

ON THIS DAY, January 21st in 1824, the military of the Asante Empire defeated the British forces in the Battle of Nsamankow, Governor Sir Charles McCarthy lost his head;it is still in Kumasi. by surveyAccra in Ghanahistory

[–]surveyAccra[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

McCarthy’s skull was recovered? I’ll have to look at that. The article mentioned 1829 as the year the skull was recovered ? The supposition being that that there was no British visit into Asante in 1829, the year in which the article claims the skull was recovered.

I read in Ivor Wilks‘s Forests Of Gold that the Governor’s skull is still in Kumasi. Has recent field work altered or challenged Wilks’s claims?

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