, INTRODUCTION
• Dance embodies and articulates the philosophies of the culture, the origin, and serves
symbol of identity.
• Our increasing interaction with various world cultures has undermined certain aspects o
heritage.
• According to history, the Kete dance, although a dance from the Ashanti’s was actually cop
people of Kete-Krachi.
• It used to be a dance for the Kete-Krachi hunters and when the Ashanti’s conquered them d
they took over the dance, this is evident of the symbolic cloth used to cover the Kete drum
“sum ne mogya” meaning, “Darkness and Blood”.
• Kete came from the Volta Region even though he agrees and identifies it as an Asante’s cou
states that, Even though we do not have a specific root of the name.
• Dance embodies and articulates the philosophies of the culture, the origin, and serves
symbol of identity.
• Our increasing interaction with various world cultures has undermined certain aspects o
heritage.
• According to history, the Kete dance, although a dance from the Ashanti’s was actually cop
people of Kete-Krachi.
• It used to be a dance for the Kete-Krachi hunters and when the Ashanti’s conquered them d
they took over the dance, this is evident of the symbolic cloth used to cover the Kete drum
“sum ne mogya” meaning, “Darkness and Blood”.
• Kete came from the Volta Region even though he agrees and identifies it as an Asante’s cou
states that, Even though we do not have a specific root of the name.
