Ewe 55 articles
Agbadza: From the After-War Dance to a Living Ewe Gathering
A clear, source-led guide to Agbadza’s remembered roots in Atrikpui, its layered drum dialogue and the way communities carry the dance into social life.
Anlo Before the Boat: Fishing, Salt and Trade around Keta Lagoon
How Anlo communities adapted to lagoon life through canoe knowledge, fishing, salt-making and trade—while oral tradition and historical research preserve different parts of the story.
Agbamevoza: Kente, Memory and Agotime Across the Ghana–Togo Border
Agbamevoza traces a border-crossing Agotime history from war remembrance to a Kente festival, exploring community identity, weaving, and the people who keep the craft alive.
Keta Between the Sea and the Lagoon: Anlo History, Fort Prinzenstein and a Changing Coast
Keta stands on Ghana’s eastern coast in the Anlo area, on a narrow strip of land between the Gulf of Guinea and the Keta Lagoon....
Eʋegbe: A Living Language Across Borders
A language carries more than words. Through Eʋegbe—often written as Ewe in English—people share family histories, songs, proverbs, ceremonies and everyday knowledge across southeastern Ghana,...
Agbamevo and Kete: Ewe Weaving Traditions of the Volta Region
Across the Ewe-speaking communities of southeastern Ghana and neighbouring Togo, handwoven cloth carries stories in its colours, patterns and names. In places such as Agotime-Kpetoe...
Hogbetsotso: Anlo Memory, Reconciliation and a Living Festival
Hogbetsotsoza is an annual festival of the Aŋlɔ (Anlo) Eʋe people of southeastern Ghana, centred in Anloga in the Volta Region. It brings a remembered...
One Ewe World, New Borders: How Colonial Rule Divided Communities
Ewe-speaking communities live across southeastern Ghana, southern Togo and parts of Benin. Families, towns and cultural networks cross borders that now divide these countries. Those...
Notsie in Ewe Memory: Migration, Escape and Belonging
A road out of the walled town In one of the best-known Ewe migration stories, people escape from a walled settlement at night and set...
Torgbui Gawu and the King’s Lion: A Courageous Ewe Hero Tale
The hunter who faced a kingdom In a dramatic story preserved in the archive notes, Torgbui Gawu is remembered as a hunter whose courage carried...