Nyame Ne Aberewa: Towards a History Of Akan Notions Of 'God ‘

Abstract

In the late nineteenth century, missionaries and other Westerners who were curious to learn what notions the Akan of the Gold Coast, now Ghana, entertained about the 'Creator of the Universe' , were told the following story: Long. long ago, Onyankopon-' lived on earth, or at least he was quite close to us. He was that close that Old Lady [AberewaJ constantly hit him when she pounded herfufit: Onyankopon therefore told her: 'Why do you always do this to me? Because you treat me in this [uncivil] mann e/~ J will retire to on high [soro]'.