September 05, 2007 - The Asantehene (King of the Asante ethnic group) [is studying ways to resolve] the most serious developmental challenges facing not only the Asante ethnic group but also the entire Ghana – how to use ancestral lands, as property for loans
An article By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Expo Times Independent Sierra Leone Journalist, published in The African Executive says: The much trumpeted African Renaissance process, which seeks an open awakening of the African culture for progress, will come in multifaceted ways. Nowhere is it seen more than the opening of African traditional laws within the structures of the dominant neo-liberal penal legal codes.
It is in such remembrance of Ghanaian traditional laws that I read an inspiring report published by Ghanaweb that the Asantehene (King of the Asante ethnic group), Otumfuo Osei Tutu suspended the Asomfohene (head of the Asante King’s domestic services, an equivalent of the Department of Public Works or Services), Nana Osei Kwabena, for contravening the authority of the Great Oath (one of the higher laws of the Asante ethnic group) by selling his peoples’ swathes of lands...
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