Youth Blog

The tragedies of children drowning   The sad incident of Children drowning in wells, streams, the sea and other water bodies hits me like a sledge hammer thrown from above to smash my head. Recently, many media houses have reported various incidents of children drowning, the latest was a report carried by Ghana News Agency (GNA) on two kids who drowned in a well at Osei-Kofi-Akuraa, near Adomfe in the Asante-Akim South District and subsequently died after being rescued . The cause of this whole tragedy is sometimes attributed to an accident . But the truth is that we fail to some extent establish the true cause of such tragedies. The first cause of children drowning is negligence. I quite remember that I witness one of these tragedies just within my vicinity. From the investigation I made, the child (girl) helped her mother to sell after which she ran errands and undertakes other household chores. She met her untimely and bizarre death when she was sent by the mother to fe...

The Lost traditions of The Gas…as we celebrate Homowo.   It is a tradition in the Ga land that in every year specifically August, there is a celebration of a festival called Homowo (hooting at hunger).   It begins with the sowing of millet by the traditional priests in May. After this, thirty-day ban on drumming is imposed on the land by the priests.   The festival is highlighted at varying times by different quarters of the Ga tribe. The Ga-mashie group of the tribe will celebrate theirs' a little earlier than the La group.   Homowo recounts the migration of the Gas and reveals their agricultural success in their new settlement. According to Ga oral tradition , a severe famine broke out among the people during their migration to present day Accra. They were inspired by the famine to embark on massive food production exercises which eventually yielded them bumper harvest. The classical significances of Homowo among the Gas eroded, Family reunion,...