The Sages: JoyNews speaks with Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku on African Religion and Culture (Part 1)

[@TyA-uy4yw]

Great content.

[@conciousminds]

I cried watching this whole video😢😢😢, this is a treasure for me thus Sunday morning. I can't thank you enough. #joynews

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Great master teacher son of soil. Thank you so much for your teaching.

[@ea8112]

The best show on TV

[@amoahfrank5162]

This is a wonderful encounter. We want Part 2 fast!

[@yawmorowah1476]

Thank you, I was already looking for Part 2 but I guess is not out yet lol

[@Kwadwo.kwakye]

Thanks Waiting for the next part

[@Asap2C]

Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku has demonstrated that the elders are the preservers of culture, wisdom, and knowledge. Thanks for the knowledge of self and the worthiness that is embedded in yourselves for us to typify and live by. Our salvation and independence are self-effort and self-sacrifice❤🎉

[@conciousminds]

Please, we want more knowledge from this Wise Man and those like him.

[@myztroogeegibson3568]

Wow 90 years still looking good and sharp in mind...

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Sharp like razor

[@py20]

This interview is full of wisdom and must be shown to every son and daughter of Ghana/Africa. May we all rediscover our true identity, rebuild our confidence and reclaim our lost inheritance. Thanks Prof, may Odomankoma Nyame bless and keep you.

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

African true freedom is been shackled to they identity

[@linkadadzie2131]

Simply splendid!

[@Obaa.E]

Thanks a lot Prof. for this great insight!

[@bernardnowusu-sekyere1297]

We must have books out of this and research further for the young people to unlearn and relearn and regain our pride and confidence and most importantly our ingenuity as humans. I also recommend Akwasi Akwadapa's book The Akan People...and Sirius Star where Akan divine names true meaning are in it among other important African traditions and histories.

[@Komfo_Adu]

The names are actually the divinities that birthed life into our world and universe. Sun (Asi), Dwo (moon), Bena (fire, and its cooling agents, water and air), Wuku (the creative seed known as Akua-Ba), the earth (Asaase), the spirit of growth and conception (Afi) and the source all life (Amemen, another name for Asa or Sa), which is the dark energy that birthed life into existence. They are the creative forces that birthed the cosmos, the universe and our world.

[@samlove2628]

Great program

[@TheRamamedia]

Wise elder.

[@NanaKwameArhinKattah]

Deep revelations about the African way of living

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

African true freedom is been shackled to they identity

[@mantayax9967]

Good build guys

[@lammuri]

Fantastic interview. Wish he had stated the Akan link to Kemet or ancient Egypt. An African American excavating in Egypt discovered one of the Adinkra symbols there. That connection would've also explained the 12 clans probably connected to the 12 signs of the zodiac. The week day names also connect the 7 planets. As for Europeans bringing us civilisation I wish he had stated that it actually the other way round and twice. The first time was through Greece and Rome's presence in Kemet . The second time was the near 8 century presence of Moors ( 95% Africans) in the Iberian peninsula ( Portugal and Spain).

[@YawNsarkoh]

A great thinker, Prof.

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

History will erase the mystery

[@isaac-wv5er]

Why are these important lessons in our lives as a race not important in our curriculum in school but rather teach our children the history and culture of people they don’t know. This is crazy and breeds insecurity, inferiority complex, low self esteem and self denial. The Professor and the host should advocate for African Religion to be taught in schools.

[@trich346]

Asé

[@DCOMM-d7h]

Spiritual truth is spiritual truth. The Torah is truth. Heathenism no matter its ethnic face is heathenism. The Torah is truth. Yahweh's truth is the Torah.

[@Agboka]

My Eʋe people try as much as possible to remain authentic to themselves, and look ''within and inwardly'' for strength, but the rest of Ghana with their slave and colonial mentality are up in arms to criticize us simply because they themselves have lost their own authenticity as African beings who fancy and worship foreign garbage the honorable senior wise man is sadly talking about. Some of these empty people even call us ''inward-looking'' people as if that human quality is supposed to be something derogatory or an insult. Poor Ghanaians. The host is asking, ''how can we change'' ? Discipline can bring about that change. First is, we need to start using the mother tongue as a medium of instruction in schools in every region. That will automatically boost the self esteem that the majority of Ghanaians do no longer have. And that alone will stop the bleaching and the weaving of dead people and animal fur and hair, and the beginning of a disciplined generation. And don't say there's no money to publish test books. You have the institute of Ghana languages - a tertiary institution. So when are those graduates in our languages going to be put to work to come about publishing various test books in the Ghanaian languages? Oh, you believe that geography, biology, maths, chemistry cannot be published in Ga, Dangbani, Eʋe, Akan, Krobo, or Manprusi? Well, we must be dreaming or confused then. Without this project from the ground into the classrooms, Ghana won't move forward ever. Only 8% of the Ghanaian population comprehend and speak English, and that percentage is not going to go up ever.

[@ABempah]

Nkrumah might be the greatest transformational leader in ghana. However his biggest mistake was when he decided to use the limited resources of his fledgling newly independent country without basic infrastructures such as roads and highways to finance an unwarranted war against the well entrenched colonial masters, who still control ghana with English as official language, for total liberation of Africa. Had Nkrumah had the vision of humility to adopt a peaceful option of negotiations for total liberation of Africa and engaged his soldiers at home to help execute national and patriotic duty of roads and highways construction across their newly independent country,they would have been so preoccupied by the important task of building new roads and highways for their use and children’s children and that there would be no motivation for them to remove Nkrumah from power. And Nkrumah would have had the same political stability great man lee kuan yew of Singapore had to make his dream of a modern and civilized Singapore a reality.

[@ABempah]

Nkrumah might be the greatest transformational leader in ghana. However his biggest mistake was when he decided to use the limited resources of his fledgling newly independent country without basic infrastructures such as roads and highways to finance an unwarranted war against the well entrenched colonial masters, who still control ghana with English as official language, for total liberation of Africa. Had Nkrumah had the vision of humility to adopt a peaceful option of negotiations for total liberation of Africa and engaged his soldiers at home to help execute national and patriotic duty of roads and highways construction across their newly independent country,they would have been so preoccupied by the important task of building new roads and highways for their use and children’s children and that there would be no motivation for them to remove Nkrumah from power. And Nkrumah would have had the same political stability great man lee kuan yew of Singapore had to make his dream of a modern and civilized Singapore a reality.