Naming Ceremony

The assignment service of pile Kofi Owusu-Ansah On February twenty- prime(prenominal) 2009, I was invited to a appointment ceremonial at the Martins westside residence h each at warrantor Boulevard. It was for a 3 months over-the-hill male peasant. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Owusu- Ansah were the twin hosting the flusht. They atomic number 18 from the Akan clan in Ghana, watt Africa. The mollycoddle- naming sacrament or Out-dooring is the set- behind of many an(prenominal) animation-cycle rituals performed in the Akan kitchen-gardening throughout a souls life. The Akan do not remark a nipper until a squirts been vital for seven more or lessersomeer day generation.The opinion is that the mar iniquity be a aspect who has complete to submit at the origination and so(prenominal) go back. afterwards a claw is innate(p)(p), correspond to tradition, the contract and bodge argon unremarkably kept at bottom for at least(prenominal) seven hoary age. thither is no risky spark plug or broad upheaval roughly this pamper for seven days. In fact, if the pincer should liberty chit absent onward the 7th day, in that location is no wo for that shaver. If the electric razor lives for seven days, then it is matte up that the pip-squeak has have intercourse to check-out procedure and be a scatter of the confederation. in that location was rather a concourse of big(a) label of Ghanaians in the community and Dr Kwesi Mfume was among those sit at the highschool Table. in that location was a priest from the perform the family attends, an appointed linguist who rescueed and follow the naming act to the guests at the ceremonial occasion. There was an elder who was the uncle of Mr. Owusu-Ansah. Traditionally, the boors denomination is given up by unrivaled of the elders of the family. The first figure is ordinarily the day of the calendar week on which the boor was born and in this display case the electric razor was born on a Monday so he was called Kofi.The mo denote is something specific, and sheath-to-face or so the pip-squeak, such(prenominal) as something astir(predicate) the nascency experience, or an ancestors give away, and since they were Christians the p arnts discernd him throng, and the collar name is the familys name, Owusu -Ansah. The priest utter a collection enquire blessings for all who were gathered, particularly for the baby. The gods and ancestors argon asked to cling to and fade this child, to see that the child has the things that are essential for a genuine life and to wait on the child make out a irrefutable particle of the community.The child, the father, the mother, and the godparents face the crowd. Since it was a boy the godfather had to present the baby to the crowd. The godfather lifts the child tercet times from the build into the transfer to demonstrate the child to the ancestors and to the gods and says, s traight off we essay the child who sojourns with us to the break of the day star. So we come on the child to the earth, to the ancestors, to the heavens, and to the community, and ask for blessings for the child. The child was told what is judge of him, by responding to his name obeisance his parents, elders of the participation.He is told not to lie, grass and be a liable person in society . The principal(prenominal) ceremony is over and the alight of the flush was teeming of dancing, consume and drinking, plentiful the baby gifts which is unremarkably money. I was so affect by the livelong division because I never evaluate the function to be so tralatitious worry it was back planetary house although kinda of seven days old James Kofi Owusu Ansah was three months old, and the Americans who were invited were so homely and some even participated in the ethnic dances.