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CULTURAL INFORMATION

The Nzema Culture:The Nzemas, like any other Ghana’s ethnic groups attach great importance to all aspects on their Cultural Heritage. Cultural practices start from birth (Childhood) to adulthood (marriage rites) and ends with death (funeral rites).
Tradition
The Nzemas attached a very great importance to their customs and traditions. This is portrayed in their day to day activities both at home and abroad or elsewhere.
Traditional Dress
Like most Africans ethnic groups Nzemas are not left out in they way they dress. Most of the male adults prefer the wearing of cloths to the Western Type of dress and wear their traditional sandals to match. Their women are also seen in their traditional Kaba and cloth to match. Most Nzema women prefer wearing proper wax prints (‘Hollandaise’ in particular and Kente) when attending important ceremonies with their head properly covered. Majority of the women too use to wear ordinary clothing, properly called in the local parlance (SENLE NWO) as casual wears, especially when going to their farms and in the kitchen.
Traditional Food and other food
Nzemas are endowed by nature with several foods. Most of such foods are prepared from cassava, plantain, cocoyam, yam, maize and millet. The Nzemas do not have any special food for breakfast, lunch or supper. All they know is getting the opportunity to have something to eat to go about their daily activities. Akyeke (Atti, is the known food that is mostly found in every town or village in Nzema, and Fufu (AKONDE) is said to be the Chief of all foods. It is said that if the ordinary Nzema adult for some reasons do not get fufu to enjoy at supper, despite the fact that they might have gotten something else to eat, they will still lament the following day that (Anoma meanli ehwee), ‘yesterday I slept with an empty stomach. To mention but a few, the following are Nzema traditional foods: Akyeke, Akonde, Ampiti, Awule Bolo, Sianle, Abele kposule, Akposa, Atuku/Mgbokpole, Abodaso, Pelakali/Ntew, Bede Akposi, Bana Akposi, Elue Akposi, Ekoko Akposi, Ekoko Bekili, Elue Bekile, Alee Nvinli/Akonde Nvinli, Mgboteleba, Kyenguma, Gali, Afoto, Ngelebeta Akposi, Daboase Akposi, Bede Ngawiele,Ngelekele, Tata, Fonvonwu, Bede Ndondo, Elue Ndondo, Ekoko Ndondo,Awule, Sengandoli (Senegal-du-riz/Jollof), Wasewata, Atoko Kooko, Abele Kooko,Kuma-mgbole, e.t.c: these foods usually go with an appropriate soup, (namely – Arele tolo, Ahule tolo, Ngatee tolo, Nabee tolo); stew or ground pepper with tomatoes and onions.



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