30 RULES FOR CHANGED WOMEN

1). Never raise your voice for any reason to your husband. Its a sign of disrespect.(Prov 15v1)

2). Don't expose your husband's weaknesses to your family and friends. You are each other's keeper.(Eph 5v12)

3). Never use attitudes and moods to

Funny: America bound Stowaways found themselves in Angola

Ghana’s Ambassador to Angola, Moses Bukari Mabenga, has disclosed that the consulate has no budgetary allocation for the repatriation of illegal migrants (especially stowaways) to the country.

He has therefore stated that the four Ghanaian migrants

arrested at the coast

Acid found on Gregory Afoko

It has emerged that the dress of Gregory Afoko, one of the two persons standing trial over the murder of Adams Mahama, Upper East regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which was retrieved by

Refineries begin crude production.

This comes a good news as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced the successful re-streaming of the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries after nine months of phased rehabilitation

Gunman was not crazy - Judge fights back

The judge who presided over the case in which the man arrested for illegal possession of a firearm at the Ringway

I will kill President John Mahama

A brother of the 36-year-old man convicted for attempting to assassinate President Mahama says the BNI had information Charles Antwi had previously been treated for mental illness.
Charles Antwi was arrested last Sunday for carrying a gun to

Hotel Where Perverts Pay to Have Sex With Animals Busted by Police

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Ooni is alive, say Ife chiefs

The Royal Traditional Council of Ife has said the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, is not dead contrary to the information which filtered to journalists on Tuesday night.
The Lowa of Ife, Oba Joseph Ijaodola, who briefed journalists at the Ooni’s palace in Ile Ife on Wednesday, said the monarch

16 Year Old Teenage Boy Kills 4 Year OldBoy, RemovesKidney,Intestines

A 16-year-old boy, Tajudeen Azeez, has been arrested by the Lagos state police command for allegedly killing a four-year-old boy in Ijaniki area of the. tate.Azeez reportedly removed the deceased’s intestine and kidney after killing him.He was said to have lured the deceased

Unpaid salaries: Imo workers begin indefinite strike today

Government activities in Imo State in Nigeria will, with effect from today, remain grounded, following the indefinite industrial action called by labour leaders in the state.
According to Vanguard the aggrieved labour leaders hinged their current
action on the unwillingness of the state
government to fulfil its own part of the recent agreement it freely entered with labour, over the backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances owed workers.

Character and Wisdom is moreimportant than skills

At the interview to fill the vacancy of a Field Engineer in a multinational oil company, two competent and qualified Engineers were short listed and the company

Three Pieces of Advice VS. 20 Years of Salary"

A couple of young newlyweds was very poor and lived in a small farm.
One day the husband made the following proposal to his wife:
- Honey, I will leave the house: I will travel faraway, get a job and work hard in order to be able to come back and give you the comfortable life that you deserve. I do not know how long I will stay away… I only ask one thing, please wait for me, and while I am out, you should be faithful to me, because I will be faithful to you.
So the young man left. He walked many days until he found a farmer who was in need of someone to help him. The young man came and offered his services. He was accepted!
Therefore he discussed the terms with his boss:
- Let me work for as long as I want and, when I think I should go home please release me of my duties. I do not want to receive my salary. I ask you to save it for me, until the day I leave. The day I decide to go, please give me the money and I will follow my way.
They agreed in that! So, the young man worked for twenty years without holidays and without rest.
After twenty years, he came to his boss and said:
- Boss, I want my money, because I am returning to my house.
The boss replied:
- All right, after all, I made a deal with you and I will stick to it. However, before you go I want to offer you something new: I will give you all your money and send you away; or I will give you 3 pieces of advice and send you away. If I give you the money, I do not give you the 3 pieces of
advice. And if I give you the 3 pieces of advice, I will not give you the money. Now, go to your room, and think about your answer. He thought for two days.
Then he went to the boss and told him:
- I want the 3 pieces of advice.
The boss stressed again:
- If I give you the 3 pieces of advice, I will not give you the money.
And the man replied:
- I want the 3 pieces of advice!
The boss then told him:
- No. 1: Never take shortcuts in your life, shorter and unknown paths can cost your life;
- No. 2: Never be too curious, for curiosity
towards evil can be deadly;
- No. 3: Never make decisions in moments of anger or pain, because when you repent, it could be too late.
After giving these 3 pieces of advice, the boss said to him:
- Here you have 3 loaves of bread, 2 are for you to eat during the journey and the last is for you to eat with your wife when you get home.
So, the man went on his way, after twenty years away from home and from his wife, whom he loved so much.
After the first day of travel, he found a man who greeted him and asked:
- Where are you going?
He replied:
- To a distant place which is about 20 days away if I continue walking on this road.
The man said to him:
- Oh boy, this path is too long! I know a shortcut that is very safe and you will arrive in 5 days only.
The man began to follow the path suggested until he remembered the first piece of advice. Then, he returned and followed the long path. Days later he
learned that the shortcut led to an ambush.
After a few days of travel, he found a pension by the roadside, where he could rest. He paid for the room and after taking a bath he lied down to sleep.
During the night he woke up as he heard a
terrifying scream. He rose to his feet and went to the door to check what happened. When he was opening the door, he remembered the second piece of advice. Therefore he returned, lied down again and slept.
At dawn, after having his breakfast, the owner of the lodging asked him if he had not heard the scream at night. He affirmed that he heard.
Then, the host said:
- Were you not curious to see what happened?
And he replied:
- No! I was not!
Then the host said:
- You are the first guest to leave this pension alive. My neighbour is completely crazy. He usually shouts at night to call someone’s attention. When some of the guests come out, he kills them and buries their body in the backyard.
The man continued his long journey, eager to arrive soon. After many days and nights walking, he was very tired, but he finally saw his house far away.
It was night. He saw some light coming out from the window of his house and was able to see the silhouette of his wife. But he was also able to see that she was not alone. He came closer and saw there was a man with her. She softly caressed his hair.
When he saw that scene, his heart was filled with hatred and bitterness. He decided to rush against the two and kill them mercilessly. However, he took a deep breath and he remembered the third
piece of advice.
Then he stopped, reflected and decided to sleep outside that night. He slept in the midst of the bushes and determined that he was going to make a decision on the next day.
At dawn, he was calmer and said:
- I will not kill my wife and her lover. I am going back to my boss and ask him to take me back.
But before, I want to tell my wife that I have always been faithful to her.
He went to the front door and knocked. When his wife opened the door and recognized him, she cried and embraced him warmly. He tried to push her away, but he was not able. Then, with tears in his eyes he told her:
- I was faithful to you and you betrayed me...
She was shocked with that accusation. So she replied:
- How did I betray you? I have never betrayed you. I waited patiently for you for twenty years.
Then he asked:
- How about the man that you were caressing yesterday?
And she said:
- That man is our son! When you left, I discovered I was pregnant. Today he is twenty years old.
Hearing that, the man asked her forgiveness. He met and hugged his son. After that he told them all the stories that he experienced when he was away. Meanwhile, his wife prepared some coffee
for them to eat together, the last bread given by his boss.
After a prayer of thanksgiving, he broke the bread.
When he looked at it, he found all his money inside. In fact, there was even more than the right payment for his twenty years of dedication and hard work!
Friends, our God is like this boss. When he asks us to make a sacrifice, he wants to give us more than what we give Him. He wants us to have His unique wisdom as well as the material ,,,,
Have a reflective, rejuvenating, and repositioning day, and a blessed, impacting weekend.
Shalom

Source: Ajayi Adewale Adeniyi

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Symbolic meanings of the colors in Kente cloth

Meanings of the colors in Kente cloth:
Black—maturation, intensified spiritual
energy
Blue—peacefulness, harmony and love
Green—vegetation, planting, harvesting,
growth, spiritual renewal
Gold—royalty, wealth, high status, glory,
spiritual purity
Grey—healing and cleansing rituals;
Maroon—the color of mother earth;
associated with healing
Pink—associated with the female essence of life; a mild, gentle aspect of red
Purple—assocoated with feminine aspects of life; usually worn by women
Red—political and spiritual moods;
bloodshed; sacrificial rites and death.
Silver—serenity, purity, joy; assoc. with the
moon
White—purification, sanctification rites and
festive occasions
Yellow—preciousness, royalty, wealth,
fertility, beauty.

A variety of kente patterns have been invented, each of which has a certain concept or concepts traditionally associated with it. For example, the Obaakofoo Mmu Man pattern symbolizes democratic rule ; Emaa Da, novel creativity and knowledge from experience; and
Sika Fre Mogya, responsibility to share
monetary success with one's relations.
Legend has it that kente was first made by two Akan friends who went hunting in an
Asanteman forest found a spider making its web. The friends stood and watched the
spider for two days then returned home and implemented what they had seen. West Africa has had a cloth weaving culture for centuries via the stripweave method, but Akan history tells of the cloth being created independent of outsider influence.

Origin
The origin of kente is in the Akan empire of
Bonoman . Most Akans migrated out of the
area that was Bonoman to create various
states.

Source: Wikipedia

Kente cloth

Kente cloth , known as nwentom in Akan , is a type of silk and cotton fabric made of
interwoven cloth strips and is native to the
Akan ethnic group of South Ghana .
Kente cloth has its origin with the Ashanti
Kingdom, and was adopted by people in Ivory Coast and many other West African counties.
It is an Akan royal and sacred cloth worn only in times of extreme importance and was the cloth of kings. Over time, the use of kente became more widespread. However, its importance has remained and it is held in high esteem with Akans.
Kente is made in Akan lands such as Ashanti Kingdom , (Bonwire, Adanwomase, Sakora Wonoo , Ntonso in the Kwabre areas of the Ashanti Region) and among Akans. Kente is also produced by Akans in Ivory Coast . Lastly, Kente is worn by many other groups who have
been influenced by Akans. It is the best known of all African textiles. Kente comes from the word kenten , which means basket in Akan dialect Asante . Akans refer to kente as nwentoma , meaning woven cloth.
The icon of African cultural heritage around the world, Akan kente is identified by its dazzling, multicolored patterns of bright colors, geometric shapes, and bold designs. Kente characterized by weft designs woven into every available block of plain weave is called adweneasa . The Akan people choose kente cloths as much for their names as their colors and patterns. Although the cloths are identified
primarily by the patterns found in the
lengthwise (warp) threads, there is often little correlation between appearance and name.
Names are derived from several sources,
including proverbs, historical events, important chiefs, queen mothers, and plants.
The Maroon people of Suriname in South
America are the descendants of people who were brought from Africa as slaves after the mid-1600s and who escaped to live in the forests of the interior, eventually obtaining the right of self-government from the colonial powers. The Pangi cloth made by the Maroons is a cotton fabric with multi-colored vertical and horizontal stripes, similar to West African kente cloth.

Source: Wikipedia

UNTOLD STORIES OF THE GHANAIAN CULTURE.

June 30, 2015
UNTOLD STORIES OF THE
GHANAIAN CULTURE.

I find it most difficult to
comprehend how people who are
self-professed experts in the study
and understanding of cultures not
akin to but remotely alien to them,
find joy in portraying the peoples’
culture in a derogatory manner.
Apallingly enough, the rage of the
times which is an emulation of
western culture or conventions
without a whiff of protecting our
identity as a people has led to some
aspects of the Ghanaian culture
being left to teether on the brink of
extinction.
Growing up, I relive my early years
and can only conclude that times
have changed and improvements
and modifications to culture have
been realised. But sadly, a lot of
these are in the wrong direction.
Whether seemingly out of ignorance
or an adamancy to adhere to the
right, we have contributed
immensely to our culture haven
deviated off of what made it
valuable.
As a direct result, most Ghanaian
citizens, especially those born and
brought up in recent years have no
recourse to the importance of
cultural aspects as dress,
homeliness, esteem for elders,
respect for our native languages
and all things Ghanaian. Gradually,
we are being doomed to suffering
in the abyss of an identity crisis as
we seem more keen on hallowing
those foreign practices that put paid
to our cherished heritage. The
culture of passing down
generational histories through the
art of oral story telling is on a sharp
decline towards extinction. Our old
ones who are considered as expert,
tell-it-all repositories of this store of
cultural knowledge are also dying
away with their accumulated store
without our learned experts haven
been able to tap into that for
posterity’s benefit.
It is such an unheard of
development to see a group of
technologists fashion out a
contraption ostensibly aimed at
making the art of revered fufu
pounding mechanical and more
easier. Most Ghanaians have
welcomed and made it a routine
replacement for the pestle and
mortar from ages old. They have no
regard for the ancient tales spun by
the rythmic thump thump of the
pestle’s ragged head against the
contents of the wooden mortar. I
watch television documentaries and
realise how the Japs and Koreans
blindside us into making their
products our preferred choice while
they religiously revere their
indigenous way of life which is very
evident even in aspects like
technology, arts and architecture.
From being a country with not so
much to fall on but their culture,
the Japanese have braved the tides
of modern advancement through a
heavy reliance on culture. Kimonos
are world standard forms of couture
now, yet Ghana’s kente is
laughingly made mockery of as
being a blanket as written by one
Joe-DeGraft Appiah of blessed
memory, (one of the pioneers of
Ghana’s independence struggle)
during his early years as a black
student in England.
I carry with me this sense of deep
foreboding that most of our
indigenous languages may be
corrupted into extinction if care is
not taken. Many an European or
western head of state has addressed
international forums in their own
indigenous language with no regard
for the discomfort of attending
members who have to rely heavily
on translating machines in order to
comprehend what is said. My point
here is that, the making of an
indigenous language as the national
lingua franca, not only shows
national pride but also belief in the
capabilities of the country in
perspective.
The tales we spin will forever keep
unravelling for as long as it rains
and thunders roll in the heavens.
This is just a beginning of the
untold stories of the Ghanaian
culture.

PUBLISHED BY COBY DANIELS
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