Yewe2011

I am Ewe and my father hails from the Volta Region (predominantly Ewe) in Ghana.

Hopefully I can provide a little clarity for you all.

It needs to be understood that all those people that inhabit the area from Southwestern Nigeria all the way to Southeastern Ghana ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE. Those of us in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana are all related peoples. This is why you don't see much conflict in this coastal area of West Africa. If we were selfish we could create a super country spanning that coastal region and we would be prosperous and our population will number 40-50 million. But that's for another discussion.

Ewes were apart of the Oyo Empire until we fled due to many factors (collapse of oyo, fulani invasion, in-fighting, etc.)

read the book "Ewe" by E Ofori Akyea 1998



http://www.amazon.com/Heritage-Library-African-Peoples-Africa/dp/0823919803/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338331780&sr=8-1

In it he talks about our culture, symbolisms, and history. The book also details how we borrowed/adopted certain aspectsof Yoruba governmental systems. We have two types of leadership amongst us fia (awoamefia) which means emperor in our language and togbe which means chief.

https://www.nairaland.com/890572/makoko-not-repeat-not%2Ca-yoruba/9#10956810

Goldieluks: Elaborate please....

shymmex:

That was why I created the thread for the guy to elaborate on his claims.. I know about the Ga people - but the ewe claim is a new thing to me.

Goldieluks:
oh... ok.

shymmex:

I need a massage from you, queen.

Goldieluks:
focus on topic...

jason123: I saw this in this book called "The village woman in Ghana"

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7Z1egGnT3u0C&pg=PA15&dq=ewe+people&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WF7FT_63Iq6Z0QWX4vnlBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ewe%20people&f=false

Take a look at page 15.

Ewe
Ewe, peoples living in southeastern Ghana, southern Benin, and the southern half of Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Ewe unity is based on language and common traditions of origin: their original homeland is traced to Oyo, in western Nigeria, which was a major Yoruba kingdom.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/197552/Ewe

According to Professor D.E.K. Amenumey, the Ewe people originally came from Ketu, a Yoruba area in Benin, but were eventually forced to migrate eastward as a result of Yoruba expansion. However, another source claims that the original Ewe homeland is Oyo in western Nigeria and yet another source suggests that the Ewe originally migrated from Kotu or Amedzowe east of the Niger. It is believed that the Ewe migrated into Ghana in the fifteenth century.

http://blackethics.com/716/the-ewe-people/

One_Naira: Wasn't the yewe dude that was already busted as a Nigerian pretending to be Ghanaian during the argument between him and dede1? Anyway, in NL Brixtonye was a white man from Britian. In NL anybody can be anybody
SMH. The f2king website embarrass me all the time to other Africans. There's a Ghanaian on this site, a f2king ashante/ewe man, that insult Nigerians and una just gave him a gun and ammo to do so. mschewww.

One_Naira: Wasn't the yewe dude that was already busted as a Nigerian pretending to be Ghanaian during the argument between him and dede1? Anyway, in NL Brixtonye was a white man from Britian. In NL anybody can be anybody
SMH. The f2king website embarrass me all the time to other Africans. There's a Ghanaian on this site, a f2king ashante/ewe man, that insult Nigerians and una just gave him a gun and ammo to do so. mschewww.

Yewe2011:

nah

they accused of being Nigerian because I knew a lot about the different ethnic rivalries and regions.

I'm Ghanaian.

I grew up with and have a lot of Nigerian friends though.

shymmex:

STFU and take your jealousy somewhere else..

Don't derail the damn thread, your ignorant opinions don't count, inbred jealous goat.

shymmex:

That was why I created the thread for the guy to elaborate on his claims.. I know about the Ga people - but the ewe claim is a new thing to me.

One_Naira:

STFU 1diot. The slowpoke that calls himself shymmex that everyone have schooled is talking.

Move aside!!!

Yewe2011:
Yea I don't want to speak for Ga's but according to my mother it's taught in schools that Ga originate in Ile-Ife.

Ga people are predominant in Greater Accra Region which is their homeland. But I'm not sure they are the majority anymore as there are other Ghanaian groups who overtime have relocated in Accra (the capital and main commercial city)

eku_bear: I wish that we had written records from that time. Really sucks that so much history from 1000AD onwards is basically forgotten, or reduced to myth/rumor/tales