11. Banda Heritage Event: Ahenkro Celebrations, 2019

Description:

At a day-long celebration of the Banda area's rich cultural heritage at the Banda Cultural Centre in Banda-Ahenkro, people from Ahenkro share Nafana songs and dances associated with with girls' puberty rites (Manaa Ndiom) and wedding celebrations (Bijam). The film opens with photos of girls dressed in Manaa Ndiom attire during the 1995 inauguration of the Banda Cultural Centre. A series of songs and dances performed at the 2019 event follows, accompanied by the rhythms of calabash drums, calabash rattles and, in some cases, a wooden drum. The group is joined in the first song by District Chief Executive Mary Konneh who plays calabash rattles and dances. Seated under the shade of the canopy, Afua Donkor demonstrates how to spin cotton while others sing and dance. Young people can be seen using their cell phones to record the action. Many of the Elder women who perform wear locally made strip-woven blue-and-white textiles as skirt wraps. Ahenkro, 28 June, 2019. Length: 00:15:57 minutes.

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Publisher:

University of Victoria Libraries

Date:

2019-06-28

Subjects:

Performance; Cell phones

Subjects Facet:

Nafana (African people); Dance; Songs; Music; Rites and Ceremonies; Marriage customs and rites; Gourd, Calabash; West African strip weaving; Drums (musical instrument); Rattles; Heritage

Creator:

Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Date searchable:

2019

Date searchable:

2019-06-28

Genre Facet:

Digital video

Format:

Video

Source:

Dr. Ann B. Stahl

Language Facet:

Nafaanra; English

Location(s):

Ahenkro;8.166006, -2.354521

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Commentary:

Film produced using Adobe Premiere Pro 2021

Geographic Coordinates:

8.166006, -2.354521