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Lists of Ewe names and their meanings

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In the Ghanaian community and bringing it down to the Ewes, names are specifically given for different reasons. The main reason why names among this tribe are never taken for granted is that the names normally have a direct impact on the bearers. Names are given for a reason since they reflect or have an influence on the people to whom they are given. All names have meanings they represent and Ghanaian names and specifically Ewe names are not an exception.  You will be enlightened on some of these Ewe names and their various meanings. In fact, this article gives you an idea of what some Ewe names mean. Names are like organic components of the people per the people's beliefs.    We believe that individuals become the name they are given and for this reason, names are chosen carefully before being given to individuals. Some of the names are just given to show the day of the week a person is born whereas some show the circumstances around a person's birth. Below are some nam...
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This is why you shouldn't have missed the 'New World Leaders Africa Summit' held in KNUST Kumasi

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The Big Conversations On the 16th of March, 2024 which happened to be a Saturday, a life-transforming conference was held at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST by the Empower Young Lives Africa (EYLA). This organization has the sole vision of transforming youthful minds in all ages across the continent of Africa in different institutions whether tertiary, second-cycle institutions and beyond in every possible way. This year's edition happened to be held in Kumasi and featured a lot of successful businessmen, entrepreneurs and more who came to talk to students, workers who came from KNUST and other surrounding tertiary institutions and secondary school nearby were also not left out. Some of the invited guests include: Eugene Kotoku, Host- Prophet Prakash Pyne, Dr Daniel Mckorley, Apostle Joe Addai Kusi, Oswald W Anonagada. The program was dubbed ' NEW WORLD LEADERS AFRICA SUMMIT ' and started at exactly 9:00am with participants sharing their expections...
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Procedure for making cassava starch pudding popularly called 'TAPIOCA'.

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One of the locally made food products that can be found in the market and probably the Ghanaian local or urban markets is tapioca . If you reading this article and do not have much idea about what this is then here is the destination to explore all that there is to say about tapioca in simple and well to understand terms.  What is tapioca?  Tapioca is an edible product made from starch and it looks like crystals of salt but can also be in the form of small balls or round shapes and it is white in colour.  The starch used to produce it is the one obtained from cassava and it undergoes some preliminary preparations to make it ready for the product. We are going to explore the processes in detail for you to have a full knowledge of what goes into the production. Tapioca is consumed in diverse ways and used to prepare different foods as well which will all be discussed in here. Extracting the cassava starch Cassava is a root tuber and it is its root that has all the accumulat...
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Numeral system of the Ewe language - Xexledzesiwo in Ewe

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The numerals in the Ewe language are not far away from how it is in English. Right from the early stages of a child's education, they are taught very well numbers or numerals and alphabets. The numerals are written the same way as they are in English except for the words that differ. For instance, 0 is still 0 but the words, zero is 'nanekeo'. ORDINALITY OF THE NUMBERS In this language, a number is made ordinal by the addition of the prefix "lia" . E.g) second (2nd) , The number two is 'eve' and making it ordinal becomes 'evelia' but first has an exception which is 'gbanto'.  Let's look at the numbers written in Ewe. The numbers 1-100 in the Ewe language words are below 1 ɖ eka 2 Eve 3 Et ɔ 4 Ene 5 A t ɔ 6 Ade 7 Adre 8 Enyi 9 Asieke 10 ...
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