Dagara Cultural History: Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery

Dear Ted, I cannot write a better tribute on this occasion beyond what you have been sharing with me about yourself, your work, and the vision you have about life and your place in the cosmos. Thus, when I asked you to send me a short bio note about yourself in the 2017 volume which I edited, you wrote the following: Edward B. Tengan is a catholic priest of the Catholic diocese of Wa which is coterminous with the upper west region of Ghana. After his priestly formation in St. Victor’s Major Seminary in Tamale he worked for a few years in the diocese. He was then sent to the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven where he obtained a Licentiate in Philosophy in 1983. From 1983 to 1986, he taught philosophy in his alma mater. In 1986 he gained admission into the University of Birmingham (Centre of West African Studies) to pursue a doctoral program in anthropology. In 1989, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Land