| Ewe women, like their Igbo sisters, used markets to develop social hierarchies and foster political communication and consciousness. |
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| Halo, oral poetry in the Ewe language, has been a major influence on the poetry of Kofi Awoonor. |
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| Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be. |
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| The Ewe live in southeastern Ghana as well as the southern regions of neighboring countries Togo and Benin. |
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| If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe. |
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| They are followed by the Ewe, Ga, Adangme, Guan, and Kyerepong in the south. |
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| Intricately decorated and culturally rich, the 15 drums are native to the Ewe of southeastern Ghana. |
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| French is the official language of government, but both Ewe of the Kwa and Kabye of the Gur language families have semi-official status. |
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| Other languages spoken by large numbers of Ghanaians include Ewe, Ga, Guan, and Gur. |
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| According to Ewe tradition, the arrival of the Alaga, clad in palm fronds, signals a day of vengeance. |
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| They marched, chanted, and danced according to Ewe vodou tradition, deploying their political authority via cultural-social acts. |
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| Debates surround the term kente, which is traced by some to the Ewe language, by others to Asante and Fante terms. |
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| In Ewe culture, we believe that if there is something on your mind, it sits on the stomach, making you sick. |
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| The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers. |
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| But in the Ewe language, linguist Felix Ameka points out that saying someone has red eyes means that they are completely focussed. |
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| The major ethnic groups of Ghana are the Akan, Ewe, Guan, Mole-Dagbane, and Ga-Adangbe. |
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| The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados. |
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| French is the official language of government, but both Ewe of the Kwa language family and Kabye of the Gur language family have semi-official status. |
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| Trokosi, a practice among the ethnic Ewe, refers to a family member sent to serve at a fetish shrine. |
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| Note that the program requires the presence of Ewe, the Java virtual machine which uses no less than 2Mb of memory. |
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| In revisiting these cultural and gendered actions, Ewe women's political authority was dynamic, threatening, and highly successful on many levels. |
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| Northern and Ewe women, on the other hand, have fewer commercial opportunities and assume heavier agricultural responsibilities in addition to their housekeeping chores. |
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| Over a period of several decades, Ewe women in the flourishing market communities solidified commercial ties and cemented their role as familial providers. |
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| She claims that Ewe Rente is strictly pictorial, when, in fact, certain regional styles of Ewe weaving are completely devoid of representational imagery. |
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| By contrast, Ewe, Gbandili, an Admawa-Ubangi language, and Ngwo, a Grassfields language, are languages whose logophoric pronouns have both singular and plural forms. |
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| Just for a change, here we are over in north-west Ireland, on Lough Ewe, about 20 miles from the west coast. |
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| The Ewe Launcher application has an easy to use interface but it is a little slow to react. |
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| In the opening pages of his introduction, Ross alludes to the separate paths kente has taken in Ewe and Asante communities as he discusses the cloth's name itself. |
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| She still reached her convoy rendezvous in Loch Ewe on time, but while waiting for sailing orders lost her starboard anchor when the cable snapped. |
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| Another specific feature of the Ewe kente is the use of particular forms which represent human beings, animals and household objects. |
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| The Ewe kente often creates a tweed effect by plying together different coloured threads in many of the warps. |
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| Ewe and Ashanti kente carry intricate warp and weft designs that are distinguished by their names. |
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| This group includes such major languages as Akan, Ga-Adangbe, and Ewe. |
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| For Ewe women they constituted the single most powerful weapon of social control, as they literally and spiritually polluted the physical person and memory of an individual. |
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| At 0900 17th September, I secured alongside an oiler in Loch Ewe, and was sent to the hospital ship St. David. |
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| Cophie is Ewe, not Asante, a fact that did not inhibit his apprenticeship to an Asante weaver and his adaptation of Asante-style motifs along with the Ewe patterns. |
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| After an abortive coup by members of the Ewe people of southern Togo in November 1966, the army took over directly in January 1967 and in April made its chief of staff, Eyadéma, president and minister of national defense. |
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| Major sea lochs include Loch Fyne, Loch Long, Loch Ryan, Loch Linnhe, Loch Torridon, Loch Ewe, and on the Isle of Lewis, Loch Seaforth. |
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| Under the Shetland Cast Ewe Welfare Scheme, the operator of the collection centre will be paid a total of GBP 10 per head for each eligible animal, up to a limit of 5 000 animals in total. |
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| Fon, which can be understood by speakers of Ewe bordering the East, is spoken as a second language up to the town of Djougou in Benin, located more than 400 kilometres from the coast. |
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| Lingering sentiment for the reunification of Togoland, especially among Ewe people in Ghana, has occasionally strained relations between Togo and Ghana since independence. |
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| A poor man has but one ewe, and this grandee sheep-biter leaves whole flocks of fat wethers, whom he may knock down, to deuour this. |
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| This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten. |
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| Then another ewe started to behave in a way that was most unsheeplike and, for a while anyway, I thought it rather impressive. |
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| Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. |
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