Asafo Flags - Wikipedia
The Asafo flags are regimental flags of the Fante people, an ethnic group that mainly resides in Ghana's central coastal region. The flags are influenced by a combination of Akan proverbs, visual imagery, and European heraldic tradition .
Los Angeles—Opening October 23, 2022, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana, featuring 46 visually striking, handsewn flags made throughout the 20th century.
Popular Motifs on Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana
2017年2月21日 · Here are 6 popular motifs for Asafo Flags. The lion is a prominent motif in Akan arts. It represents the strength and power of an individual or a group. Though indigenous to Africa, lions were not common in southern Ghana.
Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana
It accompanies the Royal Ontario Museum’s exhibition asafo flags and examines the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic facets of the textile art produced by a number of Fante workshops in central-southern Ghana for the use of the asafo military companies of the region.
Asafo flags - Smarthistory
In most surviving and contemporary examples, the national flags of Ghana or the United Kingdom are present in the flags of military companies, known as asafo, among the Fante people and other Akan-speaking peoples. [1]
Asafo Flags from Ghana - Mingei International Museum
2016年7月10日 · Asafo flags are displayed at funerals, annual festivals and other ceremonial occasions, where they adorn central shrines and are paraded and waved through villages and towns. Intense rivalry among companies once led to violent confrontations, but today this is channeled into peaceful competitions.
A Story of Ghana: Exploring the Asafo Flags at the ROM
2016年9月14日 · Enter the Asafo, the fighting companies of modern Akan culture. These groups traditionally fought for the Fante states in modern-day Southern Ghana, and their use of flags transcended our contemporary ideas, becoming an important part of everyday life for the companies that use them.
Fighting With Art - eHRAF World Cultures - Yale University
Ghana companies (ASAFO) are democratic and patrilineal, and provide a counterweight to the matrilineal and elitist elements of Fante society. The asafo are extremely competitive amongst themselves and their flags are meant to be provocative, ‘in-your-face,’ declarations of a company's courage and prowess.
Symbolic Significance of Enyan Abaasa Asafo Flags
Images on Asafo flags are normally allegoric representations of proverbs, metaphors, maxims and traditions associated with the cultures of the Akans. This study employed descriptive and analytical methods.
Asafo flag - Smithsonian Institution
This colorful flag (frankaa) is a wonderful example of one of the most exciting areas of Fante art. It is the emblem of a Fante Asafo company. One of the most influential of all Akan institutions, Asafo is a military organization that may have existed in some form as early as the late 1400s.
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