{"id":221,"date":"2016-07-14T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/?p=221"},"modified":"2017-04-26T21:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T21:42:39","slug":"adzewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/adzewa\/","title":{"rendered":"Adzewa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/adzewa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-222 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/adzewa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Adzewa group performing with a drum out of doors\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Adzewa<\/em>\u00a0group affiliated with the No. 6 <em>asafo<\/em> company of Anomabu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>Adzewa<\/i> groups are women&#8217;s auxiliaries to Fante <i>asafo<\/i>\u00a0(warrior organizations). Their membership generally consists of older women who sing and dance at ceremonies. All members of an <i>adzewa<\/i> group are daughters of male members of a particular <i>asafo<\/i> company. <i>Asafoakyere<\/i> (&#8220;sister of the warriors&#8221;) is the title bestowed on the leader of an <i>adzewa<\/i> group. Traditionally, <i>adzewa<\/i> groups followed their <i>asafo<\/i> company to the battlefield to provide support services. Today there are no battlefields, but <i>adzewa<\/i> groups still provide moral support for their <i>asafo<\/i> companies during festival processions and at funerals, as well as providing their own music on such occasions. The women play gourds (<i>danka<\/i>) while singing; the gourds are sometimes believed to contain supernatural power due to being kept in a room with an <i>obosom<\/i> of the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/asafo-audio-and-video-selections\/\">&lt;&lt;<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/adzewa-audio-and-video-selections\/\">&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adzewa groups are women&#8217;s auxiliaries to Fante asafo\u00a0(warrior organizations). Their membership generally consists of older women who sing and dance at ceremonies. All members of an adzewa group are daughters of male members of a particular asafo company. Asafoakyere (&#8220;sister of the warriors&#8221;) is the title bestowed on the leader of an adzewa group. Traditionally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/uncategorized\/adzewa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adzewa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}