Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning
Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning has been published under Matey Odonkor's pen name MatéNaté.
Odonkor's thesis was about reviving oral storytelling traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired by his thesis work, he started an organization called Yenkassa (Yen-kah-sah) with the goal of collecting first person stories, histories, traditions and customs from older generation Sub-Saharan Africans and share them with the younger generation in ways they can assimilate.
He has since traveled to Ghana, collected stories, edited videos/audio, and shared on various social media sites and Youtube. His organization Yenkassa has achieved some of its major goals by sharing content with content creators around the world including Switzerland, Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, and Ghana. Also, one of their videos on Akan Proverbs was telecast on all major television channels in Ghana.
The same YouTube video received such positive feedback that it's resulted in the writing of a book, recently published, titled Selected Akan Proverbs And Their Meaning which is available on Amazon. The book focuses on Akan proverbs from the Ashantis in Ghana but is written for and can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of demographics or geolocation
