Understanding Ghana

Understanding Ghana

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A sharecropper mother teaches her children the alphabet & numbers at home, Louisiana, 1939 🖤🔠🖤🔢🖤

📸: Russell Lee

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He owns the number one black-owned soccer shop in the world. Listen to how he did it!

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Top 11 Largest Ethnic Groups in Africa

1. Hausa (78 Million people)

67 million of them live in Nigeria 🇳🇬. However, they are also found in sizable numbers in Niger🇳🇪, Benin🇧🇯, Ivory Coast🇨🇮, Sudan 🇸🇩, Ghana 🇬🇭, Chad🇹🇩, Togo🇹🇬 and Burkina Faso 🇧🇫.

2. Yoruba (47 Million people)

Found in West Africa, especially in Nigeria 🇳🇬 (43.4 million) and Benin 🇧🇯 (1.4 million).

3. Igbo (45 Million people)

Found in Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Guinea 🇬🇼

4. Oromo (40 Million people)

Found in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Kenya 🇰🇪

5. Amazigh (+40 million people)

Found primary in Morocco 🇲🇦 and Algeria 🇩🇿, but are also found in Tunisia 🇹🇳, Libya 🇱🇾, Egypt 🇪🇬, Mali🇲🇱, Mauritania🇲🇷 and Niger. 🇳🇪

6. Fulani (40 million people)

7. Found in Nigeria 🇳🇬, Mali🇲🇱, Guinea 🇬🇼, Cameroon 🇨🇲, Senegal 🇸🇳 and Chad 🇹🇩.

8. Amhara (+30 Million people)

Found in Ethiopia 🇪🇹

9. Akan (20 million people)

Found in Ghana 🇬🇭 and the Ivory Coast🇨🇮

10. The Somali (20 million people)

Found in Somalia 🇸🇴, Djibouti 🇩🇯, Somaliland🇮🇹 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Kenya 🇰🇪.

11. The Hutu (18.5 Million people)

Found in Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Burundi 🇧🇮

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Ovambo people

The Ovambo people , also called Aawambo, Ambo, Aawambo (Ndonga, Nghandjera, Kwambi, Kwaluudhi, Kolonghadhi, Mbalantu), or Ovawambo (Kwanyama), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily modern Namibia. They are the single largest ethnic group in Namibia, accounting for about half of the population. Despite concerted efforts from Christian missionaries to wipe out what were believed to be ‘pagan practices’, they have retained many aspects of their cultural practices. They are also found in the southern Angolan province of Cunene, where they are more commonly referred to as "Ambo". The Ovambo consist of a number of kindred Bantu ethnic tribes who inhabit what was formerly called Ovamboland. In Angola, they are a minority, accounting for about two percent of the total Angolan population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovambo_people

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Yenkassa: Untold Stories By Unfamiliar Voices in Chengdu, China! 

The "Yenkassa Heritage Wall" is being installed in preparation for an art exhibition. The selected Adinkra symbols and a play on ligatures from Chinese calligraphy you see on the wall is an interpretation of the poem "Freedom" by Langston Hughes. Our focus was on heritage, a core Yenkassa message. 

Yenkassa Heritage Wall (collaboration between Matey Odonkor and Helen Zhai).

Exhibition info: 07/22-10/22/2023. Jiang’An Riverside, Tianfu Greenway, Chengdu, China.

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Everything you know about the Kente fabric might not be true—listen to the true story of Kente told from the source by designer Akwesi kwarteng of Bonwire. Akwesi Kwarteng is also a direct descendant of the artist who first added patterns to this famous cloth. 

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As a tidbit precursor to an upcoming documentary, the Yenkassa team uses sights and sounds from their visit to the 2019 Ga Homowo festival to bring you the rich and invigorating culture of the Ga people of present-day Accra, Ghana West Africa. All Rights Reserved ©2020-Present . Yenkassa.

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G A   H O M O W O Stay tuned!

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Clever, creative, simple packaging. 

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Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning, Vol 1 How to get the book: http://bit.ly/2rUNppt, OR on amazon https://amzn.to/34GMuqN.

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Conversation starter tees!

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Yenkassa fans and followers, every t-shirt you purchase directly supports our work collecting stories/histories from Sub-Saharan Africa. One t-shirt sale collates with one story/interview. Buy here http://bit.ly/39KrXF3. 

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More from the Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hils photoshoot! All on matenate.com.

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I love Ghana!