THE SAGRENTI SAGA: Ashanti Remembers a Deadly Onslaught: Kwesi Yankah Sagrenti. The name sounds good to those oblivious of meaning. That is why it was possible for a company in Ghana to call itself ‘Sagrenti Travel and Tours’ late 1990s. If you were a Ghanaian company, it was like giving yourself a suicidal name such as, ‘Doomsday…
The Origins Of Gomoa Borbor Fante left Bonomanso and journeyed to Kwaman, they moved south and founded Kwamankese (big Kwaman). They further moved south and arrived at Adoagyri (Omankesim). The dispersion of Borbor Fante were in stages. Those who arrived later were the Ajumako, Enyan, some parts of Bremen and Agona (who migrated from present…
Who is Ofarnyi (fisherman) Kwegya? Ofarnyi Kwegya was part of Asebu Amanfi (the strongest man ever to have lived in the ancient days) and the group of people that arrived from Ancient Egypt to present day Asebu town in the Central Region of Ghana. Asebu Amanfi and Ofarnyi Kwegya were both giants according to oral…
WHAT IS AFRICA’S ORIGINAL NAME? The name Africa is a phenomenon. Home to 1.216 billion people, the world’s second-largest population and 2nd largest continent after Asia. Africa is a renowned name that has traveled way beyond the shores of the Nile to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The name is one, over time that is…
NANA KOMEH: THE GREAT AND FEARFUL SAVIOUR OF KOMENDA! Komeh was a great and fearful hunter. Straight from Techiman through Mankessim he and his people arrived at Eguafo and proceeded to Kanka(Dutch Komenda.) Dutch Komenda was a very small town as at today with some settlers, when Komeh arrived, he asked the elders of the…
History of Mankessim in the Central Region of Ghana The Fantes are part of the Akans who separated from the Bono people, around 1250 AD. This act became the origin of their name, “Fa-atsew” meaning “the half that left”. The Fante left their Bono brethren at Krako, present day Techiman in the Bono East Region…
THESE ARE SOME OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH 🇬🇭 – Mfantsiman Girls’ Secondary School – Ghana National College of Cape Coast Oguaa – Ofori Panyin Secondary School – Techiman Secondary School – Winneba Secondary School – Swedru Secondary School – Apam Secondary School – Dormaa Secondary School – Tema Secondary School – Oda…
KNOW YOUR HISTORY : FETU, EFUTU, OGUAA, CAPE COAST AND FANTES! The collapse of the ancient Ghana Empire in the Sudan, west of the Niger bed, set in motion a wave of migration southward around the 12th century. Among the various groups of people that moved southward in search of habitable lands were the Fetu…
Encounters with J B Danquah (Part 1) And Slices of Theater By Professor Kwesi Yankah No, not really encounters with J. B. At the peak of J. B. Danquah’s career and political life as a lawyer, statesman, philosopher, nationalist, I wasn’t even an embryo. Born in 1895, J. B. Danquah was 14 years older than…
