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Dente

Ewe · Krachi / Oti Region (formerly northern Volta Region), Ghana · Deity

Oracle deity whose shrine is at Krachi (Kete-Krachi). Maier (1981) shows that the Dente priest used the shrine's oaths and consultation fees to lead the Bron Confederation, a group of provinces that seceded from Asante in 1875 and remained independent until British and German takeover in the mid-1890s.

The Dente oracle at Krachi was consulted widely in the nineteenth century.

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