Biography of kojo tsikata kple
Ewe people
West African ethnic group
Ethnic group
| Person | Eʋe |
|---|---|
| People | Eʋeawó |
| Language | Eʋegbě |
| Country | Eʋenyígbá |
The Ewe people (; Ewe: Eʋeawó, lit. "Ewe people"; or Mono Kple Amu (Volta) Tɔ́sisiwo Dome, lit. "Between the Rivers Mono and Volta"; Eʋenyígbá Eweland) are a Gbe-speaking ethnic group. The largest population of Ewe people is in Ghana (6.0 million), and the second largest population is in Togo (3.1 million). They speak the Ewe language (Ewe: Eʋegbe) which belongs to the Gbe family of languages. They are related to other speakers of Gbe languages such as the Fon, Gen, Phla/Phera, Ogu/Gun, Maxi (Mahi), and the Aja people of Togo and Benin.
Demographics
Ewe people are located primarily in the coastal regions of West Africa: in the region south and east of the Volta River to around the Mono River at the border of Togo and Benin; and in the southwestern part of Nigeria (close to the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Nigeria and Benin border to Epe). They are primarily found in the Volta Region in southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, The Ewe region is sometimes referred to as the Ewe nation or Eʋedukɔ́ region (Togoland in colonial literature).
They consist of several groups based on their dialect and geographic concentration: the Anlo Ewe, Ʋedome (Danyi), Tongu or Tɔŋu. The literary language has been the Anlo sub-branch.
History
Main article: Exodus of the Ewe from Notsé
The Ewe people were formerly known as the Dogbo. The ancient history of the Ewe people is not recorded. They may have migrated from a place vividly recalled in their oral history called Ketu or Amedzofe (Amejofe), a town now in the republic of Benin, in the region that is now the border between Benin and Nigeria; and then, because of invasions and wars in the 17th century, migrated into their c GHANA on the G O Marcos Abreu Leitão de Almeida Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2023 The internal African slave trade is a key topic to understand the political, cultural, and economic history of Africa. As a colonial category, the concept emerged throughout the 19th century as European imperial powers, spearheaded by European antislavery movements, constructed a discourse of abolition associated with the expansion of commerce, Christianity, and civilization. In the process, European imperial agents increasingly challenged the political sovereignty of African states and laid the ground for the discourse of racial inferiority of Africans. At the same time, the term also refers, then as now, to the expansion of the internal slave trade within the continent after 1850. Slavers in different parts of the continent continued to move people across the landscape to provide human labor, this time not for slave ships along the Atlantic coast but for the development of economic undertakings within the continent itself, such as clove plantations on Africa´s east coast, palm oil in West Africa, and the onset of coffee and sugar plantations in Angola. As a colonial and historical category, the internal slave trade is crucial to understanding 19th-century Africa. Moreover, with discoveries in archaeology and historical linguistics, the internal slave trade has been shown to have a much older history, connected with the making of polities in Northeast Africa such as Egypt and Meroë, the trade in slaves and gold in West Africa from the time of the Garamantes to the expansion of Mali, and the settlement of Bantu-speaking villages in Central Africa in the last millennium BCE. In this way, the internal African slave trade was not one but many; internal slave trades were, rather, locally generated and emerged in different periods and places in response to distinct contexts and motivations. Ther Subject: Re: Black Stars supporters in Brazil? Stranded in an airport Please click on the link below. http://myjoyonline.com/sports/2014/June-23rd/watch-photos-supporters-flight-grounded-at-fortaleza-airport.php http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x6972e/x6972e04.htm SECTION A: FOOD SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS OF ACCRA AND ITS METROPOLIS A.1 The City of Accra and its Metropolis Urban growth has a number of direct and indirect consequences on food supply and distribution. All are relevant in any assessment of urban food security. For example, urban growth increases the demand for marketed food but reduces the availability of productive land. It modifies food-purchasing habits and makes existing market area and infrastructure inadequate, both in rural and urban areas. Map 1 is a representation of Accra and its Metropolis in 1943. Ten years later the increase in settlements made areas such as Achimota, Cantonments and West of Korle Gono (sub-urban areas in 1943) part of urban Accra (Map 2). The Master Plan map designed in the 1970s shows that residential settlements continue to expand. Map 1: Accra and its Metropolis in 1943. The official annual rate of population growth in Ghana is 3% (Sackey, 1998) while that of the population of the Accra Metropolitan area is 3.4%. If the agricultural growth rate does not average 4 percent by the year 2000, then the food deficit would reach 778,000 Metric tonnes (Mt) in that year (Nyanteng, 1998 and Dapaah, 1997). As Ghana approaches middle income status by year 2020, additional pressure on the food system will also come in terms of food variety and quality. In fact, food consumption patterns are likely to change away from inferior carbohydrates (such as cassav
Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation 2016022407, 2016023335, 9780253022776, 9780253023070, 9780253023254
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GHANA on the G O African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation
Jennifer Hart
Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis
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