Meaning of Eʋe | Babel Free

Examples

“From the Eʋe context, Dawubo Gavɔ, the priest in charge of Anyigbatɔ Shrine in Denu, Ghana, explains that a prospective priesthood candidate is normally observed for six months before admission, then trained for a further three years.”

“Several values or virtues can be associated with Eʋe folk proverbs, which this book considers as the African tree of life, on to which ‘shoots’ of the biblical tree of life in Proverbs 25:1–29:27 can be ‘grafted’.”

“After the Asante War ended in 1874, a number of the Eʋe refugees returned home to put into practice what they had learned.”

“For instance, the aim of the Eʋe & Proud-focused group is to translate Ewe names into English.”

“Birgit Meyer observes among the Peki-Eʋe in Ghana that the pietistic salvation message of the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft (NMG) did not only “demonise” the “Eʋe gods and spirits,” but also drew a “boundary between Christianity and Eʋe religion,” and, hence, ecocultural self-understanding.”

“In the Eʋe tradition, barring any medical complications, a child is to be named on the seventh or the eighth day after birth by the child's father or male relation of the father, if the latter is not physically present.”

“The Eʋe people, spread across West Africa, use the phrase “amenyenye gborbor eno zi deme” (Eʋe: the spirit of becoming human has settled in him/her) to describe someone who has become truly human.”

“Its popularity among the Eʋe communities and other ethnic groups in Ghana and beyond has been extraordinary.”

CEFR level