Enjoy the Dance and Look for the Flag Meaning: Asafo Flag Dancers’ Choreography of Concealing and Revealing

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Nana Baah, Anomabo Kyirem No. 6 Asafo Company frankaakitanyi in an ase dance style. This is the beginning of the choreography with both hands holding the flag and knees bent in a second demi plié position. To the right is an asikanma protecting him. Anomabo. Photo by Selina Okle, 2014.
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Nana Baah, Anomabo Kyirem No. 6 Asafo Company frankaakitanyi in a sour dance style twirling his flag in front of the elders. To the left is an asikanma shouting “oni oooo wonhwe” (Here it is, look!). Anomabo. Photo by Selina Okle, 2014.
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Nana Baah, Anomabo Kyirem No. 6 Asafo Company frankaakitanyi and his asikanma explaining the content of the stretched flag to the asafo elders. Photo by Selina Okle, 2014.