In 1973, Okomfohemaa Nana Akua Oparebea, head priestess of the Nana Abena Akonnedi Shrine and spiritual advisor to Kwame Nkrumah, journeyed to Washington, DC, strengthening the bridge between Africa and the Diaspora by planting the roots of Akom in America.


On September 27, 2025, Garveyite Productions brought the community together for a powerful virtual viewing of that historic visit. This video features rare archival footage of Nana Oparebea during her time in DC, along with reflections and testimonies from esteemed elders who witnessed her presence and continue to carry her legacy forward. Hear from Okomfohemma Nana Enyo Takyiampon, Okomfopanyin Nana Serwaa, and Nana Kwaku Walker as they share firsthand memories, spiritual insights, and the lasting impact of Okomfohemaa’s work in establishing Akan shrines in the United States.


Watch, learn, and enjoy!


One Ra, One Aim, One Destiny!

⁣This Interesting Ghanaian Movie narrates the cultural history and unification of Ghana by a gifted child who grew up to be a powerful young man. It promises to be educational and insightful.⁣

⁣This Interesting Ghanaian Movie narrates the cultural history and unification of Ghana by a gifted child who grew up to be a powerful young man. It promises to be educative and insightful

Nana Akua Oparebea was a multi-faceted and powerful priest in her own right. With her
close associations with Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s
party, she was an astute cultural and political innovator. Emmanuel Akyeampong writes that
Nana Oparebea and the Ghana Psychic and Traditional Healing Association were part of
Nkrumah’s “pursuit of the African personality and identity.”145 As Nkrumah’s spiritual
consultant, she also helped to foster his “religious pluralism.” 146 She extended this pluralism
with her transnational cultural coalition with Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu, who was more of an
African spiritual purist, in that he did not mix Akↄm practices with other ritual applications or
dogmas even though he did socially interface with other groups in the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
With Dinizulu, she pioneered an African Diaspora legacy that is far-reaching and influential in
the United States with thousands of priests trained in service to the Akonnedi Shrine deities of
Asuo Gyebi, Adade Kofi and Nana Esi Ketewa. In 1965 they created the first Akan shrine to be
exported across the Atlantic to voluntarily bring the spiritual practice to Africans in the
Americas.

"...The All-Knowing One, priest of Orunmila, interpreted the teaching of Ifa for Orunmila.

He said that the people of the world would come to ask him a certain question. He said that Orunmila should sacrifice.

Orunmila heard and complied..."

⁣"The god who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The god who holds up the ocean; who makes the thunder roar. Our God who has ears to hear. You who are hidden in the clouds; who watch us from where you are. You see all that the white has made us suffer. The white man's god asks him to commit crimes. But the god within us wants to do good. Our god, who is so good, so just, He orders us to revenge our wrongs. It's He who will direct our arms and bring us the victory. It's He who will assist us. We all should throw away the image of the white men's god who is so pitiless. Listen to the voice for liberty that speaks in all our hearts.” - Dutty Bookman

⁣When We Call One, We Call All.

⁣Egungun (ft. Ella Andall) produced by @trinidadcato





When We Call One, We Call All.

⁣Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.

⁣Nana Kimati Dinizulu soloing on Gome, a hand and foot drum of the Ga people of Ghana, West Africa. This solo was performed around 1990.


⁣https://dinizuluarts.org/

⁣Abode santann yi firi tete: obi nte ase a onim n'ahyase, na obi ntena ase nkosi n'awie, Gye Nyame.
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This Great Panorama of creation dates back to time immemorial, no one lives who saw its beginning, no one will live to see its end, Except Nyame.

⁣Elegba is the Messenger between the Spirit and Physical worlds.