Everything about The Nzema totally explained
The
Nzema are an
Akan people numbering about 328,700 people of whom 262,000 live in southwestern
Ghana and 66,700 live in the southeast of
Côte d'Ivoire. They speak a language called
Nzema, also known as
Nzima or
Appolo. Linguistically this is classified as a
Niger-Congo,
Atlantic-Congo,
Volta-Congo,
Kwa,
Nyo,
Potou-Tano,
Tano, Central,
Bia language. It shares 60%
intelligibility with
Jwira-Pepesa and is close to
Ahanta, Anyi and Baule.
The Nzema are mostly farmers. According to their traditional calendar days are orderered in cycles of seven, and these in turn follow each other in a three-week cycle. A religious
kundum festival is held annually all over the Ahanta-Nzema area, starting in the easternmost part of Ahanta and advancing southwestward. Among other things, this festival is the main occasion on which the satirical
avudewene songs are performed by young men. Lineage among the Nzema is
matrilineal.
The
European trained
philosopher of the
eighteenth century,
Anton Wilhelm Amo, was of the Nzema people.
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