Amedzofe, Ghana

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Amedzofe, historically also Amedschowe, Amedshove or similar spellings, is a town in the Volta Region in the southeast of present-day Ghana. The place is considered to be the original seat Avatime, one of the so-called Togo radical peoples, and is located at the foot of Mount Gemi, a rocky hill, which belongs to the same Avatime Mountains, which forms part of the Akwapim - Togo - chain. In the past, the mixtures was considered a good defensible, natural fortress. In the 1670's and then wandered Ewe groups in the area and settled here permanently down.

The area around Amedzofe was the latest after the German -British boundary agreement of 1890 to 1914 to the then German colony of Togo. Before that Avatime were under political king of Peki.

The name of the village has religious significance. Amedzofe is in the religion of Avatime the name of a place that could be described as " Menschenentstehungsort " or as " soul home ." It is with this meaning has Amedzofe found its way into the Ewe religion because Amedzofe here is one of several names. , which as a synonym for Mawuwe ( "Kingdom of God ", literally: " Flat of Mawu " ) exist another name for Mawuwe would, for example Tsiewe ( " realm of spirits " ) all characterize these names are one and the same. .

The fact that there have been found in the religious world of the immigrant entrance Religion elements of a resident population, suggests a more or less peaceful recording, have once experienced in the Avatime mountains which immigrant groups in Ewe.

Not least of these religious importance which clings to the place and its adjacent mountain, it was thanks to them that in the past aschantische armies on their campaigns east of the Volta mostly mining towns like Amedzofe left unmolested.

The Basel Mission Society operating in Amedzofe in the second half of the 19th century, a mission station, which was sometimes referred to as mountain station Amedzofe or health station Amedzofe, as well as a medical missionary worked here. In the basement of the main building of the station, a primary school was housed, was taught in the Ewe language. The station was taken over in the 1880s by the North German Missionary Society.

Gallery

Amedzofe, 1892/1893

Prior to the mission station, 1892/1893

The chief of Amedzofe and his entourage on the village square, 1892/1893

View from the mission station Amedzofe on the Gemi, 1892/1893

Amedzofe: On the way to the mission station, 1892/1893

Swell

  • Martin Probst: mission and colonial policy. The North German Missionary Society on the Gold Coast and Togo to the outbreak of the First World War, Dissertation University of Würzburg, 1987, Munich 1988
  • Diedrich Westermann: About the terms soul, spirit, fate in the Ewe and draw people in: Archives for Religious Studies, 8, 1905, p.104 -113
  • Location in Ghana
  • Volta Region
  • Place in Africa
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