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Obidan
Obidan is a village in Ghana. As of 2025, Global Brigades gave its population as 452. Foundation Oral histories gathered in the 1950s by the Ghanaian historian John Brandford Crayner state that Obidan was founded by Akweesi, later one of the first Ghanaian Methodist ministers. Accused of being a witch, ''inter alia'' by the powerful priests of the nearby shrine Nananom Pɔw, and finding himself effectively outlawed from other settlements, Akweesi petitioned the chief (''ɔdekuro'') of Suprudu for land where he could settle alone on the third week of February 1840. The chief sold him land half a mile north of Nananom Pɔw called ''Nsebɔ Buw Mu'' ("the den of tigers"), which was noted as a haunt of tigers and wolves and generally viewed as too dangerous to settle. Akweesi and his family settled there on the third Monday of March and prospered, partly due to ready access to fishing in the Eminsa Ɔkye river and the agricultural opportunities of the surrounding wetlands. Akweesi accr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akweesi
Akweesi (known late in life as "the Grand Old Man", whose lifespan is given by his biographer as 1780–1896) was a Fante people, Fante who lived in Ekumfi District, Ekumfi State. His life is known from oral traditions, and to a lesser extent documentary sources, collected around 1952, primarily from his descendants, by the Ghanaian teacher John Brandford Crayner, though Crayner's view of events associated with Akweesi has been criticised as Christian and colonialist. Akweesi is noted as an early Methodist minister in what is now Ghana, and for his role in destroying the traditional Fante sacred grove Nananom Pɔw, characterised by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu as "one of the best known clashes" between Christianity and traditional religion in the history of the region that would become Ghana. Family Akweesi's mother was Asikan and his father was Kyia. He was born in the village of Esiwahyia, where he farmed Gourd, gourds, gaining wealth through this practice and becoming a prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |