By Dr Akofa K. Segbefia That I was born Ewe, as others were born Asante, Akuapem, Fante, Ga-Dangbe, Nzema, Dagomba, Gonja etc etc, is no accident. It is a divine work of the Creator of the universe for the universality of humankind. No one, therefore, is born with a divine right to be superior to...
By Dr Akofa K. Segbefia I am from the Royal Akornu family of Anyako, which qualifies me to ascend the Aposa Stool. I am exceedingly proud to be Ewe as much as I feel proud to be a citizen of New Juaben. Many of my siblings and I were born in Koforidua and my younger...
In Ghana, it has become very popular for people hailing from the Volta Region of Ghana to be called No.9. Although some dislike being addressed as such. the tag No.9 has always been given to ewes wherever they are being found. Well, a video sighted on social media has a historian explaining the reason behind...
The controversy stirred by two books, History of Ghana, Textbook 3, and Golden English Base and authored by Badu Nkansah and Nelly Martison Anim, and Okyre Baafi Alexander respectively, cannot peter out soon. The more one tries to empty one’s memory of it, the more refreshing it becomes with the existing number of questions increasing....
While under lockdown and with the academic term over, I decided to pass the time by working on a novel I started last year. The novel is set in nineteenth-century Ewedome (1844-1872) and tells the story of an Eweme town during the Asante War of 1869-1872. My motivation for exploring such a theme is three-fold:...
Who throws stones into a compound of unripe mango trees? No one. In the same vein the Ewe have beome targets of tribal and ethnic bigotry because they are ripe. The problem with bigots is that when they don’t understand you, they either hate you, despise you or even eliminate you, or look at you...
Volta Region, the only region named after one of Ghana’s important landmarks (River Volta) is one the most peaceful regions in the country. A region that shares boundaries with about five other regions. If the people were Arabs I would suggest a re-christening of the region to Dare Salam. Legend has it that, the people...