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And I want you all to relax, let's take a look around, lots of love. Hello everyone, guys. My name is Henry. Right now we are in Ghana, and we are on a tour. Knowing more about Ghana, you realize the surrounding environment is really cool—this amazing drawing, like... This work is really good as it is. A young guy, right at the Ghana Museum, we're going to And there's a young guy doing this work—amazing, especially if you're in the diaspora. You love this and work—please reach out to me so I can connect you with this amazing opportunity. I really appreciate you doing this work, and I truly appreciate your visit to Ghana for a tour. which is amazing, my mom is there looking at this and working—my mom is so amazing to visit Ghana and She is really, really good, right? And I really appreciate your love, guys. And now we are Looking around, taking in the view of the museum, and we have learned a lot about Ghana. And I want you all to relax, let's take a look around, lots of love Henry Reader helps you achieve your goal Proven ways, each message so clear, together we conquer every fear. Every week, a journey of learning and growth will shape our future. they will use as market centers so that when the traveler Jenny's and they want to drink and it is also a safe place for any traveler to enter You rest and keep your luggage; continue your journey. The following day, so these are some of the purposes for which these mosques were built. and the poor fear not, they used to pray on my skin one So this is the oldest fabric in Ghana; it is called bark cloth and it is from a tree called Cheng Cheng, yeah, so they remove the back of the tree, then soak it in water for about a week. They take it out and use this wooden mallet to beat it, and it stretches out; they dry it off. and this is the kind of thing that comes up just before loading their fabrics, like And others—these are actually fabrics our ancestors used to display proudly. So these are mandalas, these are bangles, and they are some of the earliest forms of currency. For training, mostly among servants or slaves, another form of currency where they bear sham appearances In the local tree language, and this is where the Dallas city is, but it's a nation. So this is a container called a kudu; it was used for storing gold and gold dust. but whenever a king dies, they could bury the container, the gold, and everything else It goes down here, and these small miniature boxes were also used for storing gold dust. and the last container was mostly used by women to store cosmetics and cooking oil shea butter and joys like it give me some of the things that were used for storing gold Let's kindly move on to another section. These are called gold weights; they are called gold but are not made of gold. They are made of brass but were used to measure the value of gold for fair trade, so on one side on the scale you place your gold or your gold dust there, and on the other side of the scale any of so whichever gold weight will balance the weight of your gold, for example If this or that weighs the same as the value of your gold, then it will be worth its value. Right, so each and every gold weight here has its own significant value, but for us to trade fairly and peacefully on trade, then let's measure your gold so that they may know its value beforehand. Let's move on to stools. In Ghana, stools are used to symbolize power and authority. Alright, so we see these two here with some animals. Do you see the animal there? Yes, yeah. That is a crocodile, a crocodile sharing the same tomato but having different arms and legs. We give these animals food to eat, and you know what happens—they fight over the food. but they forget that it all ends up in the same stomach, which implies that, regardless of the wars the conflicts or the misunderstandings we have in our societies, let us not forget that we share the The same gold ideology that unites us as one—this is the implication of this. right So this is a traditional kinship of the Ga people of Ghana; they are the custodians of This landscape, so that is the spiritual—sorry, the military commander is a warlord in the Ghan. This is the Ghana chief in the language. The spiritual leader of a chief priest, he is always in white and barefooted, and that is a queen. mother, and have you noticed that they are all wearing a head on their neck? The head is called in the tree language, in the Ghana language, and in my tree language, which is called These heads are for spiritual protection, so whenever you see anyone with these heads Maybe on their doors or on their windows—it's meant to drive away evil spirits, all right. That is the purpose for which they put these heads on, and they are made in this way, which is typical. traditional kinship among the Ga people of Ghana, so let's move on to these others So these are some of the traditional homes in Ghana; this particular one is from the A man here has four wives; the first, second, third, and fourth wives—where do they use this side of the house for various animals, and they use this side for taking care of children, for cooking, and for Other than the domestic troops, yes, and this is a shrine where they use it for their spiritual purposes. activities in a kitchen where they cook and a hall to receive visitors, right? And then let me go somewhere These are some of our people here; I believe you've eaten some of them, yes. So this is a mortar and a pistol for pounding of food, a calabash for carrying food from the marketplace, a brew for sweeping and a pot for storing drinking water; they put water inside, and you can make it very, very cold due to the cleanliness and these are the messaging tools for sitting, and these two in my language We call them stoves; in English, we say "stove" whenever they produce smoke and heat. Keep the fish and meats in the basket and drive away insects from the vegetables. They put it there all right, and also the corn will be preserved for their next harvest. and those are not the ones who kill in various shapes and sizes And here are some of the rites of passage. In Ghana, we believe in four stages of human life. Bet we call it the right of passage, so bet puberty, then you marry, you die. then reincarnation in a cycle continues, what I'll talk about in detail is puberty, right that is performed on young virgin girls to initiate them into womanhood, once we cannot A young virgin girl will not be allowed to undergo this puberty right, and this is how the puberty Right, when the young girls see their message for the first time, they need to inform their Their mother will also go to the king, the mother of the community, to inform her of the king. Mother will gather the information of all the young girls who have seen your message for that a period of time, and they will schedule a date to carry out the puberty rite upon them on D-Day This is how they dress them, they smell them in clay, adorn them on this beautiful beach. and they provide the most important part of their body, their chest, however will be exposed Like what you see in the picture, they bare their chests to attract men, even the young ones. Guys who have traveled outside the communities to bring their pastures will all have to come back. home specifically for this activity, like that, but that is where they will choose your wives from So when they dress them like this, the elderly women will carry the young girls on their backs. to the riverside or to the stream to bathe them, and after bathing them, they bring them back home To eat a special food, it is called a combination of yam and rye, which they mash together. They add red oil and eat, and also the young girls are to swallow a chicken egg. They remove the shells, they boil the eggs, remove the shells, and the young girls swallow them. And this is what they do to ensure that the young girls are fitter. When the young girls are finished, they are asked to undergo training. This training will teach you. how to cook how to tidy up the home how to implement this as a mother how to talk to your wife your husband now, all these things are to prepare you for marriage, and when they are done with all and the young girl, any young man who is unmarried and interested in her, you must go to the young girl's family to perform the necessary marriage rites so that she may become So let's do the last section. Okay, these four objects here—one, two, three, four—are called funeral figurines, and they mold them. All right. me for you to die rather than suffocate in the cell, so that was what they did, but now all from the late 19th to the 20th century they abolished all this because they considered they were regarded as inhumane acts, so they shaped these funerary figurines in such a way that Instead of burying a human being, they'll bury these ones instead, so it's a case, and that is it. And whenever a family member dies, the family members of the deceased cut their fingernails. or some part of their hair, and they place it inside the pot and bury it with the dead The reason they do that is to sever every spiritual connection with the dead, so the dead may remain dead. Let the nagging remain alive so that sometimes they put money inside as you are crossing over. aspects of money, so we are going to go in peace So in girl language, oh sorry, in my tree language, this thing here is pronounced spider and we also have which are the spider's pills or stories about the spider these stories or stories about the spider are like parables, you know, a parable like this—they are embedded in their moral wisdom, and that is why African people are noted to have some of the best moral values, because these stories are what teach us how to be respectful, how to be kind. How to be humble, how to be generous, how to be honest, how to be accountable, and how to hustle some, and this is how we pass on this way of living from generation to generation through Another important thing this web teaches us is unity—you see the web collecting everything cycle it finally converges here at a point where this means we are different people, different morals values across different languages, but we all need to come together as one entity to share the same Goal and identity—this is what Dr. Kamen Korma advocates for African culture, so that we may be so this will finally bring us to a conclusion at all, and the tea at the Ghana National Museum is Unity in diversity. Thank you very much. Thank you. Enjoy the recipe. um And we have learned a lot. If you are joining me, my name is Henry, and today I'm so happy to join. 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