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"Eʋe" in a Sentence (22 examples)
From the Eʋe context, Dawubo Gavɔ, the priest in charge of Anyigbatɔ Shrine in Denu, Ghana, explains that a prospective priesthood candidate is normally observed for six months before admission, then trained for a further three years.
Several values or virtues can be associated with Eʋe folk proverbs, which this book considers as the African tree of life, on to which ‘shoots’ of the biblical tree of life in Proverbs 25:1–29:27 can be ‘grafted’.
After the Asante War ended in 1874, a number of the Eʋe refugees returned home to put into practice what they had learned.
For instance, the aim of the Eʋe & Proud-focused group is to translate Ewe names into English.
Birgit Meyer observes among the Peki-Eʋe in Ghana that the pietistic salvation message of the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft (NMG) did not only “demonise” the “Eʋe gods and spirits,” but also drew a “boundary between Christianity and Eʋe religion,” and, hence, ecocultural self-understanding.
In the Eʋe tradition, barring any medical complications, a child is to be named on the seventh or the eighth day after birth by the child's father or male relation of the father, if the latter is not physically present.
The Eʋe people, spread across West Africa, use the phrase “amenyenye gborbor eno zi deme” (Eʋe: the spirit of becoming human has settled in him/her) to describe someone who has become truly human.
Its popularity among the Eʋe communities and other ethnic groups in Ghana and beyond has been extraordinary.
He continued that Lome, which was mainly Aŋlɔ-speaking, would become the capital town, the educational headquarters, and the terminal for the proposed railway system which was to service the interior. This would give the western Eʋes more trading advantages. He added that already, indigenous clerks in the provincial centres of Kpalime and Kpando were western Eʋes (mostly Aŋlɔs) and not Popos (Anexɔs).
As the Eʋes (that is the people of Ho with some Ewes from surrounding towns) fled to Ave during the Asante war, they brought it with them from there.
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The coastal Eʋes, being mostly traders and fishermen, are found in almost every town in Ghana.
Chris Abotchie undertakes an elaborate exploration of the various mechanisms for social control among the southern Eʋes by isolating the relevant factors of lineage identity, rites of passage, traditional leadership, and what he calls the “magico-religious mechanism.” Abotchie’s magico-religious category emphasizes that the Eʋes hold criminal acts as offensive to the gods, who consequently engage supernatural forces to regulate human behavior in the community.
These regions are occupied by three main migrant groups - the Northern Eʋes, Central Eʋes and the Southern Eʋes, respectively.
For her this explains why the Eʋe call a human shadow cast on a surface luʋᴐ, while that of other solid objects is differently described as vᴐvᴐli.
Eʋes, in general, are found in the Volta Region of Ghana and some parts of Togo, Benin and Nigeria. […] Although the Eʋe migrated from Yorubaland in Nigeria almost six centuries ago, they still possess a few Yoruba cultural elements, some of which are exhibited in their music and dance forms. […] However, Galoeta (1985) writing on drum making among the southern Eʋes of Ghana and Togo, notes that Akpese musical instruments consists of two Congas and the “patange” (pati) drum (a small two-sided drum play with a thin stick), added to bells and rattles. […] In this chapter, we have recounted its history, placing it in the socio-cultural lives of the Eʋe of Ghana and some African on the diaspora communities.
Today standard Eʋe is the variety that is used in educational and religious literature.
Eʋe is spoken in the Volta Region of Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria and by nationals residing in the diaspora.
The language and culture of these groups of Eʋe-speaking peoples differ from each other only slightly.
Bernhard Schlegel, the first missionary to study Eʋe systematically, after considerable research, reached the decision that the standardized Eʋe be based on the coastal Aŋlɔ dialect.
Ablɔɖe was initiated and sustained by a shoemaker named Holiday V. K. Komedja, and written almost entirely in his mother-tongue, Eʋe.
The Eʋe used in this study predominantly reflects the Eʋe spoken by the Tᴐŋu districts of Southern Volta Region of Ghana.
The Eʋe people, spread across West Africa, use the phrase “amenyenye gborbor eno zi deme” (Eʋe: the spirit of becoming human has settled in him/her) to describe someone who has become truly human.
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