IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE: TWO TALES OF JEWISH ORIGIN AMONG THE GA-ADANGME OF ACCRA IN 2015
Keywords:
Ga-Adangme, Israel Ancestry, Wulff Joseph Wulff, Osu Ghana
Abstract
In Accra, two houses represent two distinct places that portray memories of a Jewish origin. One of them is the stool house of the royal Nikolai family. On a mural, the wanderings of the Ga-Adangme ancestors from Israel into West Africa is portrayed. The other house holds the burial place of Wulff Joseph Wulff, a Danish Jew who settled in Osu in 1836. In this article, I will compare the two narratives and reflect on how both contribute to a contemporary Jewish myth of the origin of the Ga-Adangme-speaking peoples of Ghana.
