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Asafo

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Asafo
warrior, group
PaaloŋGhana Maale eŋ
Located in the administrative territorial entityCentral Region Maale eŋ
Asafo flag, No. 1 Company

Asafo e la lesiri zɔɔzɔreba kpaaroŋ naŋ be Akan culture, kyaare a ba lineal descent.[1] A yelbiri yizie la sa, muni la zɔɔre, ane fofo, muni meŋ la noba. A lesiri yelboɔraa ko a Asafo companies da la a teŋɛ maale guubu. Yi yele nyaabo yi European colonial powers kyaare a Gold Coast (pampana-day Ghana), a Fante, naŋ kpeɛrɛ a coastal region, da maalɛɛ complex version yele kyaare a social ane political organization naŋ be a martial principles, ane saakonnoŋ yele kyaare visual art,[2] te paale flag banners neŋ figurative scenes,[3][4] kyɛ naŋ taa yele mine gɔɔloŋ kyaare yelkorɔ kpaare sere bee sekpɔgere .[5][6][7]

Asafo societies kyaare a Gold Coast

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Elmina

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Posuban of Asafo company No. 4 Wombir in Elmina.
Posuban of Asafo company No. 1 Ankobea.
Flag of Asafo company No. 10 Akrampafo, also known as the Vrijburgers, which is written (white-on-white, so difficult to see) on the white part of the flag.

A Elmina, Asafo companies da la a 18th century piiluu soba yi a kyɔɔtaare naŋ be a Elmina naŋ da tona yi a 17th century. A iri baroo a Asafo companies a Willem Bosman's Nauwkeurige beschrijving (1703) da gaaɛ a academic Harvey Feinberg kyaare a baaroo ko a companies da ba maale taa tona yi a bebiri na.[8] A ŋaa da taa la kyilluu a 18th century sogaŋ, be a wards sere ata naŋ da nyɛ sommo neŋ wards paala sere anaare naŋ taa new immigrant kpaaroŋ sere ata a Elmina.[8]

  • No. 1 Ankobea (also Ankobia)
  • No. 2 Akyemfo (also Akim)
  • No. 3 Akyem-Nkodwo (also Encodjo)
  • No. 4 Wombir (previously Assamfoe, Appendjafoe)
  • No. 5 Abese (also Abesi)
  • No. 6 Alatamanfo (also Allade, Adjadie)
  • No. 7 Eyampa

A 19th century, Asafo companies sere ata da paalɛɛ a ayɔpoi ana naŋ tona:

  • No. 8 Brofomba
  • No. 9 Maa wore
  • No. 10 Akrampafo

Cape Coast

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A Cape Coast (Oguaa traditional area) dasaŋa asafo companies ayoɔbo la bebe: Bentsir, Anaafo, Ntin, Nkum, Brofomba, Akrampa ane Amanful. A company kaŋa zaa taa la wederoŋ neŋ a superior captain ("Supi") naŋ paale a Supi la a captain ("Safohen"). A wederɛ ko a asafo companies la a Tufuhen, meŋ naŋ taa sɛgere Twafohen bee Twaafohen[9][10] (master of arms),[11] naŋ e a General Captain k'o ferebo toma e orders and directing affairs if war breaks out.[12]

The asafo companies feature largely in the Fetu Afahye festival of Cape Coast, held annually on the first Saturday of September.[13]

Waaloŋ sere

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A asafo company kaŋa zaa taa la suuruŋ waaloŋ sere na da taa dasaŋa mine kaŋa bimmu.[14] Esi Sutherland-Addy da taa la iruuŋ ko a Oguaa aŋa:[15]

  • No. 1. Bentsir – red
  • No. 2. Anafo – blue and white
  • No. 3. Ntsin – green
  • No. 4. Nkum – yellow
  • No. 5. Amanful – wine and black
  • No. 6. Abrofomba (Brofo Nkoa) – white
  • No. 7. Ankrampa – white and black

Nimitɔɔre Kannoo

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  • Anderson, George Jnr (2016). "Akan Asafo Company: A Practical Model for Achieving True African Liberation and Sustainable Development". In Mawere, Munyaradzi; Tapuwa R. Mubaya (eds.). Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa. Langaa RPCI.
  • Casely-Hayford, Augustus Lavinus (1992). A Genealogical History of Cape Coast Stool Families (PDF). The School of Oriental and African Studies. PhD Thesis.
  • Datta, Ansu (October 1972). "The Fante Asafo: a Re-examination". Africa. 42 (4). Cambridge University Press: 305–315. doi:10.2307/1158498. JSTOR 1158498. S2CID 144209815.
  • Datta, Ansu K.; R. Porter (1971). "The Asafo System in Historical Perspective". The Journal of African History. 12 (2): 279–97. doi:10.1017/S0021853700010689. JSTOR 180884. S2CID 143911820. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  • Feinberg, Harvey M. (1989). Africans and Europeans in West Africa: Elminans and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast During the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 9780871697974.
  • Shaloff, Stanley (1974). "The Cape Coast Asafo Company Riot of 1932". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 7 (4): 591–607. doi:10.2307/216597. JSTOR 216597.
  • Van der Meer, Dirk (1990). De goudkust na de slavenhandel: Plannen om de Nederlandse Bezittingen ter kuste van Guinea rendabel te maken. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
  • Yarak, Larry W. (2003). "A West African Cosmopolis: Elmina (Ghana) in the Nineteenth Century". Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

Meŋ kaa kyɛ

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Sommo Yizie

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  1. ↑ DeCorse, Christopher R.; Sam Spiers (2009). "A tale of two polities: socio-political transformation on the Gold Coast in the Atlantic World" (PDF). Australasian Historical Archaeology. 27: 36. S2CID 67755840. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-15.
  2. ↑ "Asafo Companies". twi.bb. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Casely-Hayford, Gus (4 February 2016). "Gus Casely-Hayford on Fante Asafo Flags – Artist & Empire". Tate – via YouTube.
  4. ↑ "Asafo Flags: Stitches Through Time". Heni Talks. 24 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Ong, Jyni, "Asafo flags embody cultural meanings and narratives from Ghana’s Fante people", It's Nice That, 11 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Posuban Shrines of Ghana". Asafo Flags. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  7. ↑ Tɛmpileti:Cite encyclopedia
  8. 1 2 Feinberg 1989, p. 105.
  9. ↑ Baah-Acheamfour, Kwaku, "Ghana: Heroes Are Better Honoured Alive", AllAfrica, 25 August 2008.
  10. ↑ Asmah, Kobby, and Timothy Gobah, "Be neutral, professional — Political parties urge stakeholders", Graphic Online, 15 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Elicot Nana Kweku Okyere III, "THE TUFOHEN STOOL OF OGUAA TRADITIONAL AREA (The General Commander of the State & Master of Arms of the Seven Asafo Companies in Oguaa)", Oguaa in perspectives, 2 July 2021.
  12. ↑ Cape Coast metropolitan Assembly.
  13. ↑ Paintsil, David Allan, "Oguaa to showcase potential of traditional warriors…in 2012 Fetu Afahye" Archived 6 Ɔɔtoorebare 2014 at the Wayback Machine, The Chronicle (Ghana), 11 May 2012.
  14. ↑ Du Toit, Herman (ed.), Pageants and Processions: Images and Idiom as Spectacle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p. 118.
  15. ↑ Sutherland-Addy, Esi, "Women and Verbal Arts in the Oguaa-Edina Area", Research Review (NS), Vol. 14, No. 2 (1998), p. 7.

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