FOASE D/A J.H.S

Welcome Message

Foased/a — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:53 GMT

On behalf of our learning community welcome to Foase District Assembly Junior High School and our new web site!

We believe that central to your child's success and well-being is the partnership between home and school. We are sure the web site will enable us all to communicate more effectively and share information and ideas about how we develop as a school.

We hope you enjoy and participate in this exciting new development.

The Head Master

Mr. Kankam Mensah Peter

STORIES

Foased/a — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:39:11 GMT

An Angel Visits Mary

There was a girl named Mary who lived in a village called Nazareth.

She was going to marry a carpenter named Joseph.

Mary was a wonderful girl.

One day, an angel came to her.

"Greetings. The Lord is with you!" the angel said. "You will have a son and you will name him Jesus."

Mary was so surprised.

Mary knew that God had sent the angel to her.

"How can this happen?" Mary asked.

The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will make this happen. Your child will be the son of God."

"Let it be done to me as God wishes," Mary said.

Wow!

Can you imagine that?

What would you have done?

What would you have said?

Do you think Mary trusted God?

FONTS AND CASTLES IN GHANA

Foased/a — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:23:51 GMT

The Forts and Castles of Ghana

BY EXCOBA KANKAM

In the absence of any physical landmarks of this historical journey into chaos, other communities of African people may seek refuge in collective amnesia as a natural defence against the unbearable trauma of the savageries of the slave trade. But for the people of Ghana, there can be no escape from a historical reality as palpable as the slave castle. Ultimately, Ghana's Pan African consciousness reaches far into a fractured, deeply wounded collective unconscious that insists on being uncovered so that it may be healed back to wholeness. The slave forts and castles are the most immediate though confusing gateway into the collective unconscious. To contemplate and, above all, to penetrate the puzzling, even frightening mystery of these monuments of enslavement is to come to terms with our history of fragmentation, the basis of Pan African consciousness and struggle..

Elmina - 1482.Built by the Portuguese, is the first of the slave castles. I ask questions. The more I try to find out, the less I learn. There is broad confusion as to how many castles there are in Ghana. In West Africa.

Castles. These military forts which served as administrative centers for colonial government and the administration of the gold and slave trade, including the temporary housing of items of trade: guns, beads, alcohol, cloth from Europe and, sine qua non, gold and human flesh from Africa's interior.

n Elmina I find one small book,Forts and Castles of Ghanaby Albert van Dantzig, and one small pamphlet,The Castles Of Elminaby Tony Hyland of the Department of Architecture, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi.

In her prescient manner, Nia somehow strikes up a conversation with Albert van Dantzig who just happens to be passing through at that time. I am upstairs in the little gift shop, feeling prideful because I have purchased these two writings and a few other books about Ghana. When I descend the steps clutching my catch, Nia introduces me to Mr. Dantzig. He is seventy some years old, from Holland, now living in Ghana. We talk briefly. He autographs his book for us.

GREAT TO BE A TEACHER

Foased/a — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:08:25 GMT

Hello to you all,

I am a teacher of Foase D/A J.H.S and my students will like to collabrote with other students about the culture and school life and i will like o tel you that come and meet a class and a teacher.

The school can be found in Ghana which is located on the West of Africa. We have a population of 210 students and more of them will like to meet new pals and also to meet students to share ideas about culture and school life with them.

This project is been done by me and my students. and we will like to correspond with other schools. with this project soon.

Please if your really intrested you send me the tacher a mail on this e pal address

excoba2005@epals.com and you will meet this great students that are willing to be there for you in all that you may do.

Welcome to Ghana

Foased/a — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:15:22 GMT

Early European Contact and the Slave Trade

When the first Europeans arrived in the late fifteenth century, many inhabitants of the Gold Coast area were striving to consolidate their newly acquired territories and to settle into a secure and permanent environment. Several immigrant groups had yet to establish firm ascendancy over earlier occupants of their territories, and considerable displacement and secondary migrations were in progress. Ivor Wilks, a leading historian of Ghana, observed that Akan purchases of slaves from Portuguese traders operating from the Congo region augmented the labor needed for the state formation that was characteristic of this period. Unlike the Akan groups of the interior, the major coastal groups, such as the Fante, Ewe, and Ga, were for the most part settled in their homelands.