Gaad Baafa 

(Our Newsletter)

This is our quarterly newsletter with contents of Events, Ga literature/education, history, culture, news and events from home, job vacancies, MembersCorner, Our Ancestors and their contribution and many more facts to enrich our culture, legacy and knowledge.

..WOGBE J3K3...

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Afɔ gbɔmɔ fɛɛ gbɔmɔ yɛ agbojee mli, kɛ hegbɛ ko ni damɔ ŋɛlɛ koome nɔ. Gbɔmɛi fɛɛ yɛ jwɛŋmɔ kɛ henilee, ni no hewɔ lɛ esa akɛ amɛhe ahi shi yɛ nyɛmi suɔmɔ mli.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Months of the Year

 English    -- Ga

 January  -- Ahalabata

February  -- Oflɔ

March   --    Otsoklikli

April      --   Abɛi bee

May       --  Agbiɛnaa

June       -- Otukwajan

July         -- Maawe

August     -- Manyawale

Sept          -- Gbo

Oct            -- Aŋtɔŋ

November  -- Alemle

December  -- Afuabee

Year            --  Afi

Happy NewYear -- Afi oo Afi

Welcome    -- Awa waa Atuu

Welcome   -- Mohee

Thank you - Shidaa

Thank you - Oyi wala donn!!

Here are some popular Ga proverbs and sayings:

• Whatever the wind brings he takes away with him.
• He who is in a hurry always arrives late.
• The rich eat when they want, the poor when they can.
• You can conquer the whole world with words, but not with drawn swords.
• You can buy 'em but they don't stay bought.
• When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.
• Loving someone who does not love you is like loving the rain that falls in the forest.
• Only the fool points at his origins with his left hand.
• When you are rich, you are hated; when you are poor, you are despised.
• The rich man may wear old clothes.

•  "Walls (or winds) have ears," warning people not to speak out their secrets.

• Nme kome fiteo nmei fe.

One (bad) nut spoils all

• Ka foo loflo.

A crab does not beget a bird.
• Shwilafo etsoo shwilafo gbe.
A blind man does not show the way to a blind man
• · Alonte efon miau bo.     The cat does not cease to cry " meow."

....more to follow soon.. Thanks for reading/learning to be wise...

The Ga Language/alphabets

Ga is a member of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo languages. It is spoken in Ghana by about 600,000 people, particular in the southeast of the country around the capital, Accra.

Christian Jacobsen Protten, the son of a Danish soldier and an African woman, devised a way of writing Ga with the Latin alphabetin about 1764. The Ga alphabet has been revised a number of times since then, with the most recent changes in 1990.

Ga alphabet

A a

B b

D d

E e

Ɛ ɛ

Ff

Gg

Hh

K k

L l

M m

N n

Ŋ ŋ

O o

Ɔ ɔ

P p

R r

S s

T t

U u

V v

W w

Y y

Z z