A History Of The Baule People

Abena Pokou should be worthy of 'canonization' as her story ought to belong to some comprehensive diasporic collection of similar events. We ought to reflect on some of the morals that the Baoulé race were able to recognize while maintaining their season of solidarity amongst themselves.

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We baoulés are not ghanaians, ok?? We are natives of Ivory coast🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮. It's our forefathers who were from ghana🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭.

2024 , I am here to explain stuff…. Its great to see and hear people mention names like Queen Pokou, or Awura, Aura, or Abla Pokou …
All these names sound like over years twist and french influence (phonological change ).
Pokou relates to Poku in our language (Asante Twi) and Awura is accurate meaning (Lady), though others say Aura all relates to Awura (Lady) and Abla sounds as Abena and all can be names of one person. For instance Abena reflects the day She was born (Tuesday) as according to our customs. Awura could be her actual name called by her family.
For instance I am Nana Yaw (Thursday born) but my the name I was given is Adaenyina(Addae relates to clouds and Onyina – Bombax buonopozense – Tree) Amankwa. For which Amankwa is our family name.
So clearly, I have noticed due to French influence the pronunciation of the names changed but same.
For instance in the Akan (Twi) dialects we have the Fante and Asante Twi, and the Akyem and the Bono
these and any more dialects really differ but could be understood by all the groups. It will be easy for a Fante to speak Asante Twi and Understand it clearly same way will an Asante but due to location there are things the Asante will find difficult to understand in Fante unless there's proper relation and the context of the sentence is clear. The fantes are located in the southern most part of Ghana (Coast) and they have experience the ocean so they have names like 'Posena'- Octopus. As an Asante I have never in my life seen a real Octopus if not for Tv, so it will be difficult to know what the Fante is saying unless the context they use is very clear then I will know they are talking about an animal in the ocean.
For instance in Asante Twi there's nothing like "Sonkye"(To unirate) this is a clear fante word that the fantes(separates) derived over a period because the word that all dialects could easily get is "Dwonsc". Another is "Mankessim" (Big Nation / Big Town / etc) is Fante word in Asante Twi we say "Man Kese mu" which sounds the same but there's slight twists. I am still trying to figure out the name "Baoule" if has a phonological change

ABLA POKOU

I am so sorry, your pronunciation of her name is absolutely wrong, Abena Pokoua, you are pronouncing it like Aurora, there is a letter b in her first name and a k in the second, both need to be heard when saying them. It is commendable that you are eager to learn history but also learn to pronounce names which you may not be familiar with. As african’s our main identity is our names, a name can tell you which tribe or country one belongs to, hence saying it right is paramount. Otherwise who are you really referring to? The name and person do not exist if you mispronounce it.

Baoule people are found in chereponi Ghana

Queen Pokou was born princess of Kumasi, Ghana, daughter of Nyakou Kosiamoa, sister of Dakon, the ill-fated successor of Opoku Ware I, and niece of Osei Kofi Tutu I, a formidable king who was the co-founder of the Ashanti Empire.[2]

Queen Pokou became the leader of a breakaway group from the main Ashanti Empire, which she refused to join. Disagreements among the factions resulted in war. Pokou led her group westward, through a long, arduous journey, to the Komoé River.[2] Legend has it that she had to sacrifice her only son for her people to cross the river.

After crossing the river, Pokou and her people settled into an agricultural way of life in the savanna of the area. Pokou died shortly after creating the Baoule kingdom. Her niece Akwa Boni succeeded to the throne. She pursued wars of conquest to widen the limits of the young kingdom.[3] The Baoule people today inhabit the territory between the Komoé and Bandama Rivers.[4] They make up 15 percent of the country's population, having assimilated some smaller tribes over the centuries.[5]

Baoule have many subgroups some Are from Krobo, Guan, Denkyra , Bono, Anyi (Aowin) the Asante migration is the largest and the last migration.

The right spelling is Baoulé. I am from Cote d'Ivoire. Never heard of the story of Reine (Queen) Pokou sacrificing her son. The story taught in IC is that hippotamus lined up and the people were able to cross on top of them.

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Ekkk I'm so happy I'm learning more of our history XD

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