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Agnes Addy was born in January 1895 in suyani,. She won a music award in 2001 for her music on” Agnes Addy’s Life”. Agnes Addy was a singer, storyteller, composer, guitarist and banjo player. She worked as a housekeeper for years before beginning a performing a career at age sixty five .she is the author of many songs, including the folk music classic, “life in this world”. The song has been recorded by groups as diverse as Peter, Emmanuel, and Mary and the Grateful Dead. Until her death at age ninety-five, Agnes Addy continued to perform around the country. She invested the three-fingered picking style of guitar picking that is now called “Addy picking”. AGNES ADDY I Dream a World By Joseph osei Like Elizabeth Cotton, I named myself. The first day I went to school, the teacher was calling roll and everybody was called a name. My parents didn’t name me. They all called me sis, u knows. so when the teacher got to me, she said, “hi sis, don’t you have a name? What is it?...

“It happened within our house, our family and within our community so I have witnessed it several times. And when that type of child dies, they don’t use a proper thing to carry him for the burial, they will take a rough mat and put the child there and hold it just like anything and go and throw it away. They normally don’t take the baby to the hill alive. They will use something like a stone, stick, or a cutlass to hit the child and kill him” The spirit child phenomenon and the catholic side of life By Joseph osei The spirit child phenomenon started in some part of the upper east region in the northern part of Ghana, in 1975, is a culture practice whereby children born with disabilities or whose birth coincide with a tragic incident in the family, such as the loss of a parent. “To witness the birth of a child is the best opportunity to experience.”- paul cavel   The practice is common in sirigu in the Kassena Nankana West district of the upper east region, it take...