An image of the Ga-Adangbe celebrating the Homowo festival
The Origin and Migration of the Ga-Adangbe
The Ga live in the coastal plains stretching from Accra to Tema. These included Ga Mashi, Abola, Asere, Gbese, Otublohum, Sempe, Akanmadze, Alaata, and Osu, Labadi, and Nungua. The languages of the Ga and Adangbe are fairly closely related. Each is by far, more closely related to the other than either is to any other language. The Adangbe comprise Ada, Yilo and Manya Krobo Osudoku and Shai.
The Ga believe that they came in
small parties from Ile Ife in southern Nigeria with the Adangbe and dispersed
only after crossing the Volta. It seems that, after stopping at various points
on the way, the Ga-Adangbe developed their present cultural characteristics
first around the banks of the lower Volta near Lorlovor, which has been
identified with the Shai area.
The Ada founded their home on the coast west of Volta Mouth. The Adangbe went northwards into the Shai and Krobo hills and later made the surrounding plains their farm lands. The Ga who came in small groups met the Guan in the Accra plains and drove them away. The Prampram people, however, claim that before they came to the Accra plains, the Adangbe lived originally at Tetetutu in the Togo-Dahomey area.
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