Dagara Cultural History: Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery

  Testament The following two wishes expressed in my brother’s Last Will and Testament (Fr. Edward B. Tengan 1951 to 2003) are the source of my concern and are provoking this memo and portfolio. Among other things, the will states: 1. Landed Property: e) Plot and 2 house in Piina where I reside when I am in Piina – To Alexis Tengan to develop his Museum and Cultural Centre 2. Cars a. GL 24-13 – To Catholic Diocese of Wa - Pope John XXIII Centre c. GR 9089-7 – To Catholic Diocese of Wa – Pastoral & Soc. Institute Whereas all other properties bequeath to individuals carry no intentionality in terms of their usage and expenditure, in bequeathing these three items, clear intentions are expressed by linking them to particular institutions that are providing social services to the whole community. Perhaps, it was because of this character that these items carry, that he parked the two cars in the family home, expecting me to take proper care of them after his demise. Wit...

Memoir of a Rural Surgeon : Autobiography of Sir Edward N. Gyader By: Edward Nwinyuor Gyader  ISBN: 978-9988-3-7554-6 Printed in Ghana – (December 2024) Hybrid H Limited. Accra Synopsis: Even t hough a year has passed by since the death of my brother, Rev. Fr. Edward B. Tengan on (August 3rd, 2023) circumstances beyond my control have meant that his heritage has yet to be properly assessed and transferred to the appropriate individuals to whom he had given as legacies. This means that one cannot, with legal backing, begin to initiate or work on that aspect of his intellectual legacy, including manuscripts, completed and uncompleted. During my last stay with him – February 13 to March 12, 2023 – when he was still the diocesan administrator, I became aware that he was working with Dr. Eward Gyader on a biography project. Indeed, I was with him in the house when a version of a draft document that I have come to find in his computer was delivered electronically to Dr. Gy...