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Akwasidae

Twi/Akan · Akan (Asante), Ashanti Region · Ceremony

The Sunday Adae. Christaller (1881) says the feast called adae kese or akwasidae is celebrated on a Sunday in the recurring Adae cycle; Rattray (1923) calls it the 'Big or Sunday Adae (Kwesidae)'. Kaminski (2003) describes it as the occasion of ancestral veneration every forty-two days.

The chief received his subjects at the palace on Akwasidae.

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