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Okyeame was a literary magazine founded by the Ghana Society of Writers in the post-Independence era, which saw the rapid rise of a new generation of thinkers, writers and poets in the country. The first issue of Okyeame appeared in 1960, [ 1 ] and issues were published, at irregular intervals, up until 1972. [ 2 ]
Guamán Poma's discussion of Inca rule describes religion, social order, legislation, annual festivals and economic organization, as well as the functions of the different social groups. His narrative of Inca and pre-Inca times is often inaccurate according to modern understandings, but reflects how the Incas were remembered in the early ...
Kwame Nsiah-Apau (born 17 April 1976), [1] known by his stage name Okyeame Kwame and nicknamed Rap Doctor, [2] [3] [4] is a Ghanaian musician, ...
Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (c. 1535 [1] – after 1616), also known as Huamán Poma or Waman Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish Empire after their conquest of Peru. [2]
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer best known for his novels including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Two Thousand Seasons (1973) and The Healers (1978).
In many parts of West Africa, there is an old chieftaincy tradition, and the Akan people have developed their own hierarchy, which exists alongside the democratic structure of the country.
Aggrey was born in Anomabu, the son of Princess Abena Anowa of Ajumako and Okyeame Prince Kodwo Kwegyir, the Chief Linguist in the court of the master chieftain King Amonoo IV of Anomabu. A relative to the Sam family and Cobbah of Komenda. In June 1883, he was baptized in a municipality in the Gold Coast and accepted his Christian first name James.
{Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III [1] (11 November 1923 – December 2016), born Michael Kwame Mensah and later John Kwame Amofa Appiah, was a member of the Agona royalist clan. The firstborn and only son of Kwasi Apeagyei and Abena Tweneboa, he was popularly called Kwame Mensah.