Ga (Gamei)
People of Accra; kpodziemo outdooring and the famous figurative coffins.
GhanaGaCustoms they practice
2 recorded rites, each with its steps and its WHY.
Outdooring · the Akan and Ga eighth-day naming
On the eighth day the newborn is brought outdoors for the first time, shown to the sky and community, and given names including the day name that every Akan and Ga person carries.
Akan · Ga · Ewe
Abebuu adekai · the Ga fantasy coffins
Ga carpenters of Accra build figurative coffins shaped as the life of the deceased: a fish for the fisherman, a Mercedes for the driver, a Bible for the deacon; the funeral parades the life’s work.
Ga
What they eat
2 dishes, what they mean and when they appear.
Fufu
Cassava and plantain (or yam) boiled and pounded into a smooth, elastic dough, swallowed rather than chewed: a swallow-starch staple across much of West and Central Africa.
Akan · Ewe · Ga +2
Waakye
Rice and beans cooked together with dried millet or sorghum leaves, which stain the dish a distinctive reddish-brown, served with a wide array of sides from a single stand.
Ga · Akan
Names from this tradition
18 names in the decoder, meaning first.
Mensah
machine draftThe third-born child.
Surname & clanAkan & Ga (Ghana)
Aku
machine draftborn on Monday
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Naa
machine draftborn on Thursday
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Korkor
machine draftpeace
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Tei
machine draftfirstborn
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Adjeley
machine draftremedy
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Tetteh
machine draftfirstborn of twins
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Ashong
machine draftsixth born
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Manye
machine draftpeaceful soul
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Okai
machine draftsecond born
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Nii
machine draftborn on
Given nameGa (Ghana)
Oboshie
machine draftninth born
Given nameGa (Ghana)
