The literature on Fante asafo art reveals that frankaakitafo (flag dancers) carry, dance with,
and display asafo flags, creolized from European flags displayed on the Gold Coast (now …

The literature on Fante asafo art reveals that frankaakitafo (flag dancers) carry, dance with,
and display asafo flags, creolized from European flags displayed on the Gold Coast (now …

Asafo companies originated several centuries ago among the Akan peoples of southern
Ghana as a military organizations, which were sometimes hired by Europeans as auxiliary …

VOL. 55, NO. 1 SPRING 2022 african arts| 27 companies and all have a number of flags
(known as frankaa) whose colors and iconography have often been regulated since the late …

It is good entertainment. It is part of our culture.” 1 The words of tailor Francis Kodwo Coker
sum up how the lively secular masquerade known as Fancy Dress has become an integral …

Over the last century hundreds of appliquéd Ghanaian flags have found their way onto the
market of the large western auction houses. In this paper, Augustus Casely‐Hayford traces …

This is a museum catalog for an exhibition of Fante military company flags held at the UCLA
Museum of Cultural History. The flags were made in the period between 1935 and 1978 …

European symbols of military power, political authority, economic strength, technology and
trade ie forts and castles, canons and ships were often incorporated into traditional Fante …

This work explores the factors that motivate an asafo (a sociopolitical organization whose
previous military roles have been put in abeyance) to reconstruct or renovate their posuban …

This article discusses the historical dimensions of six distinct Asafo company flags and two
public sculptures from Winneba and Mankessim in the Central Region of Ghana …