Northern Smock, Kente: How Kwame Nkrumah promoted 'Wear Ghana' in the 1950s

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  • Dzata 9 months ago

    What is Northern Smock? Batakari or Fugu is the name and not Northern Smock. Do we have southern smock too?

  • Anaba 9 months ago

    Kente is for the southerners and smock (fugu)is for we northerners. That is our difference

  • M. Mambora 9 months ago

    We from Northern Ghana, particularly the Naa Gbewaa, descendants who the smock originated from as our traditional wear call it one of two names:—— Bunηwaai or Bannah

    Fugu is the Hausa name coined for it by the Hausas ...
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  • Anaba 9 months ago

    It is northern smock,just as we have southern kente

  • Bastie the emperor of Kumasi 9 months ago

    Nkrumah was a million years wiser

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    BLACK TRAITORS-WILL THE WHITE MAN TAKE YOU THE BLACK MONKEY MONEY TO REMOVE THEIR GOVERNMENTS? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS-NO, NO, NO, NEVER. BUT THAT WAS WHAT BLACK MONKEY DID. WHITES SEE BLACK PEOPLE AS LAZY AND UNPATRIOTIC. BLAC ...
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  • Tijani 9 months ago

    The guy is a liar . The smock has never been for the poor. It has always been adore for the rich people. Before, it was only the rich people who can afford to wear the smock. Until now, Smock was never common as it's today. ...
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