Superb! I can see the discretion in telling the part about how the knowledge of weaving got into the hands of the Asantes. Kudos. Much respect.

Thank you for this video . In Togo 🇹🇬 we call it kete so it’s the true meaning ke te.thanks

@TheGaDangme

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for highlighting this important fact

Fantastic piece of work 👍 Typical Leader in the making, keep serving us, your reward is near. Thanks!

Lovely to hear from ewe history, I'm also gh 🇬🇭 from Akan tribe, i can see that, there is no difference between akans and Ewes, our costum as culture is the same 😘 🌹 🌹 🌹 It brings a lot of joy 😂 to all of us. Thanks Nana Tegee, if I'm not wrong in spelling nana in ewes language

@Atlas24gh

Жыл бұрын

GaDangme not Ewe

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. We are all united, even as a GaDangme person I can see the similarities between us.

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

Costumes and culture were never the same. The good thing with Ghana is the embrace of cultures by the various ethnic groups. Hence the acceptance of the Asante/ Akan culture by the Ewe/ Ga- Adangbe including the Kente, names and days of the week.

great job senior man

Interesting history 😊😊😊

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

It is refreshing learning more about my late mom's place of birth. I look forward to visiting Agortime Afegame soon! Very enlightening!

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Please do. Important that we return to our roots

Truth In Ghana kete comes from the Volta region

@littlegenius6932

6 ай бұрын

Who taught you history?

strange thing is that the Adangbe people in Ga hardly wear kente not much their chiefs

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

I do think that it’s because of the Ewe influence.

Very soon, they will say, they are the real Asantes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

We are not interested in being what we are not.

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

They differentiate themselves from their Togolese Ewe counterparts as Akans.

Wow! So all this while origin of Kente itself is initially from the GãDãŋmes of Agotimi in Volta Region and not as it's been twisted to.............Thieves Please, weave it in different GãDãŋme Symbols and bring it to the GãDãŋme Kpokpaanɔ̃ for us to buy for you.

@TheGaDangme

3 жыл бұрын

@Gideon kobby nationaltymes.com/2021/03/18/build-up-to-tribal-bigotry-in-ghana-elvis-ativoe-sets-records-straight-akans-never-taught-voltarians-kente-weaving/ This was published recently and i think its important to read

@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGaDangme A lot of people around the world have been weaving for thousands of years.Kente is about the design not the weaving

@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGaDangme Do you know how many groups migrated from the Nile Valley? Weaving is not unique to Ewes

@tvs9978

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGaDangme there is a professor/historian in the Ivory Coast who says, based on his research, that Agotimes first settled among the Ahanta people then later fled to the Volta region after they were attacked by other Akans? So which is it?

You do realize you are wearing Bonaire Kente not Kete. I know you guys don’t call it Kente, so be proud of your culture and wear your Kete, and stop trying to always start conflict with Asante!

@danieladenyo1208

2 ай бұрын

We are all learning guys, what is the meaning of kente is Asante language or Akan language? I'm an EWE born and bread in Akan's land I speak i write Akan and understood the Akan language more than my own language (what dose the word kente means in Akan language?)

@richiestrunz

2 ай бұрын

It’s kenten or busket

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

The Kete is mat, Kente which is corrupted to Kente is basket.

Fanciful ananse story about kente indeed! You forgot about your invention of fufuo. Very smart.

@princeboakye-yiadom1661

3 жыл бұрын

Am shocked 😰 to hear those words from the so called....

@AlkebulanJahmiah

3 жыл бұрын

Wow you need to read and know your history bro cassava and plantain is not native to Ghana they were all imported into Ghana initially.... enlightened yourself and stop disgracing us

@KAPAK108

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlkebulanJahmiah you missed the point! It has nothing to do wi

@Tsofanye

22 күн бұрын

⁠@@AlkebulanJahmiahthey won’t enlighten yourself. They should ask themselves where the cotton trees and waterbodies are in Ghana. There is actual research on this and the evidence is compelling.

The Chinese have been weaving for over 2000 years.Japanese have been weaving for a long time.There is weaving style similar to Kente in Thailand.In the Northern part of Ghana, they weave fugu or batakari. Ewes taught all of them too? Kente has to do with the pattern and style not weaving

@Tsofanye

3 жыл бұрын

interesting that you say this and take the approach. This video did not say that the Ewe's are originators of all forms of weaving in the world, and by your line of reasoning more than one group can (dependently or independently) create a form of weaving and design for themselves

@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tsofanye You have to know that by us living close to each other, some of our cultures and traditions will be similar.It doesn’t mean we are copying each other

@julienyawo614

9 ай бұрын

The Ewes originally came from Asia Minor. That is why their traditions and customs as well as Attire are similar to asiatic people. For example, the Indian Saree looks like Kete and many Indians find it shocking that Kete also look like Sarees.

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

​@@julienyawo614So you no longer came from Nigeria?

So are we to go back to 'Ga Adangbe' insead of Ga Dangme?

@adangbe

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

I have been advised that is GaDangme with an M.

@MrNTR1

6 ай бұрын

@@TheGaDangme Does it mean we no longer accept the Ada's or Agotimes as part of our Kingdom?

As it stands now we never no the meaning kente in Akan language

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

It is the tapestry and pattern that gives it the name Kente, which is basket. Even the Kete that Ewe claim means mat in Asante Twi or Akan, which also has similar woven pattern.

Your people even invented the Golden Stool I guess right?

@charlesbanson4988

3 жыл бұрын

Okomfo Anokye was a man from Notsie in Ewe land.

@gingerbreadmangangafarmer2251

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbanson4988 Komfo Anokye was a guan

@theone7014

Жыл бұрын

You thought you said something smart. He was an Ewe man. Okomfo Anonkye was the name the Akans gave to him.

Please, I beg to differ, actually the original name of kente was called "nwentima. " meaning woven cloth, our grandparents never call "nwentima" kente, but like many languages sometimes some words fade away for popular words. For instance, some people are of the view that agusi stew originated from Nigerian but agusi stew is called "akatua" in Akan the same way we've started calling"bofrot' pufpuff very soon Nigerians will claim they taught Ghanaians how to make Bofrot I'm from Bonwire and there is nowhere in our history that some Ewes came there as captives. I believe kente spread to parts of Eastern Ghana when the people of Juaben move to the present day Eastern region. Because when the people of Juaben moved from Asante they moved with the people from all the towns and villages around them and Bonwire is only about 3 to 4 kilometers away from the old Juaben. The same thing happened when some Ashanties moved to Ivory Coast. Finally the only war Ashanties had with some Ewes was the Krippi war and Ashanties wore kente long before that war. Anyways if Ewes brought kente to Ashanti we say "Akpe na mawu", but between you and I, an Ewe man will never teach Ashanti man anything as sophisticated as kente weaving.

@hebrewtheblackman

3 жыл бұрын

Quoted from your comment: "but between you and I an Ewe man will never teach Ashanti man anything as sophisticated as kente weaving" 🤔 I say your tribal bigotry is showing...👀 Facts are facts regardless of what you believe happened. We must stick to facts (evidence-based facts) and rid ourselves of the lies.

@paradiselinks2196

3 жыл бұрын

Moreover Ashanti Kente is way different from ewes especially the color combinations.

@WendySings2024

Жыл бұрын

@@paradiselinks2196 exactly why ours is the original one. Theirs is not as creative as ours ….they are the learners 😊

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Interesting the comments I have had against this have been very xenophobic in nature. Goes to show what people are hiding when they interact with their fellow Ghanaians. Can’t even have a civil discussion without the superiority complex coming out

@geoffreyosuji6166

Ай бұрын

​@@hebrewtheblackmanWhere is the evidence based facts? Ewes travel to parts of Ghana and assimilate easily than Asantes do. If there is any between the two that taught the other, it is Asantes and if there is any that learnt from the other, it the Ewes.

Now I understand the real meaning of Copy right,,, you copy from one and at the end you claim the ownership. And also the reason why The Ashantis fought many wars to protect the STOOL from copy copy ( otwea a osua dua we3,,,, ore koda a na etua nano.)

@theone7014

Жыл бұрын

The stool that was commanded by an Ewe man.

@xtiannyarko6015

6 ай бұрын

​@@theone7014another ignoramus😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is very confusing , Ashantis are claiming as theirs , agotime are claiming as theirs which is it

@tvs9978

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone now claims the came from Egypt. Inferiority complexes.

@ericdickens6869

2 жыл бұрын

Asantes don't have time to claim anything, we have ours called Bonwire kente, so if others have theirs, why should we stop promoting our beautiful culture to fight over something irrelevant?

@Festus714

Жыл бұрын

@@tvs9978 e have been claiming Egypt for centuries even before colonialism. Its been Oral history long before. Egypt then wasn’t n Arab world like today and wasn’t defined by its current borders

@smileylady485

Жыл бұрын

​@@Festus714true

What a disingenuous way to ludicrously distort history. Where did you get this foolishness from, simply because the concept of taking out patents was never an Asante thing. Of course, today someone like you can freely, without hindrance and brazenly pass a version of that cloth under your armpit. A special piece of fabric that used to be manufactured for the exclusive use of Asante royalty. The first Europeans who came to that part of the world unanimously attest to the sophistication of the Ashanti people and their superior culture. No one ever ascribed to them the usual racist description of "naked savages" It is strange that the descendants of people of low cultural heritage can today thumb their noses at the greatness of Ashanti and by extension the entire Akan Nation, which should otherwise be a source of joy and pride to all Black people the world over. Shame on you and whomever imparted such silly falsehood in you. They say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Low cultural heritage? It is clear that you are a xenophobe who cannot see objectively past their own superiority complex. I will not entertain you any further.

So then when did supposedly teach the Ashantis I don’t think the claims are true because of lack of information

@TheGaDangme

3 жыл бұрын

Which claims are untrue and which story has lack of information? This article was recently published from Elvis which I also think sheds some light: nationaltymes.com/2021/03/18/build-up-to-tribal-bigotry-in-ghana-elvis-ativoe-sets-records-straight-akans-never-taught-voltarians-kente-weaving/

@John-ji9tq

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve read the passage so are you claiming that ewes taught Ashantis and if so when did they approximately

@John-ji9tq

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGaDangme know there is more information

@TheGaDangme

3 жыл бұрын

​Hello John You mentioned in the comments before that you dont want to be bias so want evidence. I think there is already some bias by the simple fact that you dont add the same level of evidence requirement to the claims of how did the ashanti's teach the ewe? please do share the dates if you have them? To answer your question - Do contact the agotime traditional council directly as i dont have the timeline, but i am also sure that just as the Ashanti's claim they taught the ewes (which is rarely questioned) there is also a possibility of the teaching being the other way around. i think the article i posted also goes some way to also answering your question Also if possible can you help me with this. The story for the Ashanti's as I understand it (correct me if I am wrong as im not 100%) is that a spider/deity taught the ashanti's Kente? please can you provide some evidence of this please, and if its not the story provide links to the real story. I am not trying to cause any drama, but just illustrate that the requirement to 'prove themselves' should apply to all. And so far the story of the ewe tradition from an evidence point of view stands up pretty well, dont you think? the fact both the silk cotton tree and the water needed grows in the area, the long history of weaving, the complexity of their designs and the fact that Ewe communities outside of Ghana also have weaving communities.

@John-ji9tq

3 жыл бұрын

Then click download full history

Your forefathers travelled by boats from ile ife to your present day by small boats on the high sea? That is a bit sketchy part of the story. Lol.

@tvs9978

2 жыл бұрын

Not so sketchy After all fishermen cmgmtrvel in fishing boats from Ghana to Gambia and Liberia, and it is on record that some West Africans used to travel back and forth down to the Cameroon coast so not impossible.

@smileylady485

Жыл бұрын

i am sure you are Ashanti with a big inferiority complex! you think everything good should come from your region?

@TheGaDangme

6 ай бұрын

Nothing sketchy if you look up history with an open mind.