Frititi Radio Amsterdam

07/07/2023

From the 15th century to the 19th century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region. Akan art is wide-ranging and renowned, especially for the tradition of crafting bronze gold weights, which were made using the lost wax method of casting. Branches of the Akan include the Abron and the Afutu. The Akan culture is the most dominant and apparent in present-day Ghana accounting for 49.1% of the population. •
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Olson, James Stuart (1996). The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 18.

22/06/2023

"BETWEEN the 1660s and 1690s Denkyira was the dominant power among the Twi-speaking forest Akan of the Ofin–Pra river basin. It was the most important inland supplier of gold and slaves to the Dutch at Elmina and the English at Cape Coast, and the wealthiest importer of European guns and munitions.

Denkyira and the Europeans had a mutual interest in keeping open the 130-mile trading corridor between them. In 1692 Dutch, English and Brandenburgher emissaries travelled to Abankeseso, the Denkyira capital, to hold talks with Denkyirahene Boamponsem (c. 1650s–1694) about trade.

Boamponsem sent a resident to act as his representative on the coast. In 1698 this man died. His remains were sent back to Denkyira by the English with a gift of rum, cloth and gunpowder to celebrate his funeral.

In the 1690s Denkyira fought wars with Asen and Twifo to its south to keep the trade route open. Akan and European sources make it clear that the task of controlling the corridor to the coast stretched Denkyira’s gold and manpower resources to the limit. This made its rulers more demanding and predatory towards their own people as well as their tributaries.

Two developments tipped the scales against Abankeseso’s struggle to maintain its authority.

First, in or about 1694, Boamponsem died after a reign of some 40 years. Admired by Europeans for his valour, he was memorialized in Denkyira traditions as a successful.......... His successor was Ntim Gyakari (c. 1694–1701), a capricious young man of uncertain judgement according to the same traditions and European observers.

Second, in the mid-to-late-1690s Denkyirahene Ntim Gyakari’s increased demands provoked resistance from a coalition of his northern tributaries, famously led by Osei Tutu of Kwaman (Kumase) and, so traditions recount, Komfo Anokye. In essence, this insurgency committed Denkyira to conduct military operations in the north while holding down the south. This placed a great strain on its resources. Abankeseso used exaction and force within Denkyira itself to sustain its military posture.

This led to a growing rejection of its authority among its own people. At the end of the 1690s, when Abankeseso faced the Kwaman coalition that was to become Asante, it had many enemies and few friends".........

Page 1: DENKYIRA In The Making Of ASANTE (1650-1700).

13/06/2023

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 Adoagyir (Omankesim). The dispersion of Borbor Fante were in stages. Those who arrived later were the Ajumako, Enyan, some parts of Breman and Agona (who migrated from present day Ashanti region).

Gomoa-Eastern Fante (Boka-Mfantse): The origins of the people of Gomoa (Gomoafo) can be traced back to the Borbor Fante (Borbor Mfantse) immigrants who arrived in Mankessim from the Bono Kingdom in c. 1252, led by Gomowa and Egya Ahor, the respected matriarch of the Nsona Clan (Ebusua) and their common ancestor.

The Gomoafo (people of Gomoa) practiced the Akan-Clan (Akan-Ebusua) system with matrilineal lineages which are the basis of inheritance and succession. The ‘Ebusua’ family line is governed by their 7 ancestral 'Abosom' or Gods. They derive unity from the shared matrilineal ancestry, passing through the 'Mogya bloodline', and their 12 patrilineal ‘Ntoro’ spiritual components like ‘Sunsum and Kra’ which guides their adult interactions in the world (wiase).

Gomoa have the largest landmass in Fante and their boundaries stretched all the way to Jamestown as illustrated by the colonial government in the Gold Coast days. Gomoa have two paramountcies.

Some major Gomoa towns are Nyanyano, Fetteh, Kakraba, Apam.

How many Gomoa towns do you know?

The Gomoa People-Boka Fante of Akan Ancestry

17/01/2023

This is Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, a Ghanaian writer, poet, minister & missionary from Elmina, born in 1717.

At the age of seven or eight, Capitein was sold into slavery.

In 1742 he wrote a dissertation which defended slavery on theological & Christian grounds.

After he graduated from Leiden University in 1742, Capitein was ordained as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. He soon joined the WIC and was sent as a chaplain to Elmina Castle in Western Africa.

While in Elmina, Capitein translated the Bible from Dutch into the Fante dialect as part of his missionary efforts with the local population.

He died in 1747 in debt, owing large amounts of money to many creditors.

16/01/2023

25/11/2022

This is Anton Wilhelm Amo, a great African philosopher born in 1703, originally from AXIM in the Western part of Ghana.

At age 4, he was sent to Germany by the Dutch West India Company in 1707 and was presented as a GIFT to Dukes Augustus William and Ludwig Rudolf of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel but was treated as a MEMBER of the family by their father Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

He was also called Antonius Guilelmus Amo Afer in Germany.

Amo was the first African-born person known to have attended a European university. He was a professor at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying there.

01/11/2022

175 years old Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Emmanuel Congregation, Aburi-Akuapem.
This church was established in 1847 and was made the district head in 1918.

03/09/2022

*🇬🇭Ghana Formation:*
*Who Came First?*

1. *1821* Fantes were constituted first into the British Gold Coast Colony with the capital as Cape Coast .

2. *1850* Ga , Dangbe , Ewe (Anlos and Tongus) and Akan ( present day South-East Ghana ) existed as Danish Gold Coast which got incorporated into British Gold Coast as second constituents ( comers ) .

3. *1872* Dutch Gold Coast was incorporated into British Gold Coast with Fantes and Nzemas as locals .

4. *1874* The Gold Coast Colony was established from all the above territories which comprised of the entire coastal areas from Aflao to Axim and extended inland as far as the borders of Ashanti .

5. *1877* The capital was moved from Cape Coast Castle to Osu Castle in Accra .( All this time, Ashanti and the Northern territories were not part of the Gold Coast)

6. *1901* Ashanti became a British Colony by conquest and was incorporated into the Gold Coast .

7. *1901* The Northern Territories became a British protectorate and were incorporated into Gold Coast .

8. *1956* British Togoland was incorporated into Gold Coast after a plebiscite .

9. *6 March 1957* Gold Coast got independence and was named Ghana 🇬🇭.

Teach and preach these sacred facts in the bedroom, schools, churches, mosques, ghettos, and the airwaves so that tribal bigotry in Ghana should stop

*A bit of Ghanaian history* 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

29/06/2022

The Walls of Benin, one of Africa's ancient architectural marvels, were destroyed by the British in 1897 during what has become known as the Punitive Expedition. This shocking act destroyed more than a thousand years of Benin history and some of the earliest evidence of rich African civilisations

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13/06/2022