Mefiri Ejisu

Mefiri Ejisu Mefiri Ejisu is a page dedicated to the promotion of Ejisuman and Asanteman in general. An annual event comes off every december in Ejisu

Otumfuo Kentehene Nana Kuragu Ameyaw Santamire II - Bonwire Mo piiaww Otumfuo Kentehene ✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿📸 MeYɛ Asanteni Media
12/09/2025

Otumfuo Kentehene Nana Kuragu Ameyaw Santamire II - Bonwire

Mo piiaww Otumfuo Kentehene ✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿

📸 MeYɛ Asanteni Media

TOLEE SAMGBA GYAFLA II 👑 When the King is with you, who can be against you?When the King himself presents you to the wor...
11/09/2025

TOLEE SAMGBA GYAFLA II 👑

When the King is with you, who can be against you?

When the King himself presents you to the world, what authority can reject you?

Constitutionally Gazetted‼️

11/09/2025

Today is Thursday Market Day at EJISU ❤️

10/09/2025

Are you a Kente weaver or deal with any form of Art ? let's get connected for 'YAAF Exhibition' as part of MEFIRI EJISU 2025 🙏

10/09/2025

OPERATION CLEAN EJISU 🙏

A delegation from His Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II paid a courtesy call on Speaker Alban Bagbin to formally inform him ...
10/09/2025

A delegation from His Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II paid a courtesy call on Speaker Alban Bagbin to formally inform him of the passing of the Asantehemaa and extended an invitation to Parliament for the funeral rites.

📸 Parliament of Ghana

09/09/2025

MEFIRI EJISU ❤️

Nominated and Awarded as the Best in Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research, during the Nursing and Midwifery Exce...
08/09/2025

Nominated and Awarded as the Best in Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research, during the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence and Hall of Fame Awards.

From Ejisu L/A to a global icon in Health Education and impact.

Congratulations, Dr Edward Appiah Boateng for this award and milestone. Ejisu is proud of you

Akpe to everyone who made this possible

ASANTEMAN MOURNS 💛🖤💚Twellium Industrial Company Limited has donated 1,260 packs of Verna bottled water, 700 cartons of a...
08/09/2025

ASANTEMAN MOURNS 💛🖤💚

Twellium Industrial Company Limited has donated 1,260 packs of Verna bottled water, 700 cartons of assorted soft drinks, among others, to the Manhyia Palace.

The donations presented by Patrick Yeboah, the Head of the company’s Marketing Department in Kumasi, on September 8, 2025, were in support of the upcoming burial rites of Nana Konadu Yiadom III, Asantehemaa.

cc/📷; Opemsuo Radio- Opemsuo Radio

Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III - Akwamuhene, has conveyed his sympathies to the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu I...
08/09/2025

Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III - Akwamuhene, has conveyed his sympathies to the King of the Asante Kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on the passing of Nana Konadu Yiadom III, Asantehemaa.

Leading a high-powered delegation from the Akwamu Traditional Council in the Eastern Region, Odeneho visited the Manhyia Palace on September 8, 2025.

During the visit, the historical ties between Asante and Akwamu were reaffirmed, underscoring their shared history, which predates the establishment of the Asante Kingdom.

📷: Manhyia Palace - Opemsuo Radio

Kɔtɔkɔhene, Asanteman da wa se. Wa ma Ahenie ayɛ fɛ dodo 💛 🖤 💚
08/09/2025

Kɔtɔkɔhene, Asanteman da wa se. Wa ma Ahenie ayɛ fɛ dodo 💛 🖤 💚

THE ORIGIN OF KENTE IS BONWIREHow Akan-Asante Kente Weaving Got To The Ewe People And Viz Versa, An Eye Witness AccountN...
08/09/2025

THE ORIGIN OF KENTE IS BONWIRE

How Akan-Asante Kente Weaving Got To The Ewe People And Viz Versa, An Eye Witness Account

Nana Kwabena Safo-Kantanka of Asante-Manpon, the author's father, was born and bred at Bonwire and was one of the leading Kente weavers (master weaver) throughout the 1930s 1960s.

This is what Nana Safo-Kantanka, the 1998 centenarian at Mampon, had to say about how the Akan-Asante type of weaving called Kente got to the Eweland.

"I wish to state that all nations including the Gur, Ewe and Akan-Asante have been weaving cloths for centuries, but the type of cloth weaving called Kente was created by the Akan-Asante. Until the beginning of the 1940s the Ewe did not know how to weave the Akan-Asante type of cloth called kente and the Akan-Asante did not know how to weave the Ewe type called Agbomevo.

Those involved in the transfer of Akan-Asante Kente technology from Asanteland to Eweland are myself (Nana Safo-Kantanka) Kwabena Okai, Atta Kuffour, Kwadwo Birikoran, all from Bonwire and Mensah from Baman near Bonwire. Others were Kwame Duodu, Agyei Mensa and Kwabena Nipa, also from Bonwire.

In the 1930s, I, Safo-Kantanka, was the weaver for Akyemabuakwahene, Nana Ofori Atta whose real name was Kwadwo Dua. Nana Ofori Atta was a member of the Board of Governors of the Achimota School.

In the 1930s, the Art Department at Achimota School included traditional loom weaving on their programmes. As if by design, the teachers were all from Bonwire in Akan- Asante while some of the Students were from Eweland.

I was in Bonwire in 1936 when Mr. R. R. Amponsah and Mr. Davis, then a teacher of ceramics at Achimota School, came and invited me on the recommendation of Nana Ofori Atta to teach at Achimota School.

I was asked to get three more weavers, so I went to Achimota School with Kwabena Okai, Atta Kuffour and Kwadwo Birikoran.

We were housed at a place called Anumle where a shed was constructed for us. We were paid four pounds (4) per month and we taught Kente weaving to students from many parts of the country. Among the students were some Ewes.

At that time, the head of the Art Department of Achimota School was a Polish woman called Eva Meyerovitz, she helped us a lot. We were at Achimota when the earthquake occurred in 1939. I left to start farming at Manpon with the money I had acquired. I was replaced by Mensa, a good weaver from Baman.

Years later, Kwame Duodu, Mensah and Kwabena Nipa, weavers from Bonwire who made Koforidua their base, taught some Ewe weaves how to weave Kente, when they qualified, they were hired to weave for their masters on monthly salaries. It was cheaper to hire Ewe weavers than to hire Akan-Asante weavers.

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