Dagara Cultural History: Cardinal Peter Poreku Dery

1. Memoirs of Most Rev. Peter Porekuu Dery; Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale , by Peter Porekuu Dery, GILLBT Press, Tamale, (2003); 162 pp; 9 illustrations. Synopsis: This book is a significant publication by Dery and has been the most influential up to date. It does not only recount the personal story of Dery's life and religious career which began as a priest in formation within Dagara religion and ended with his retirement as an archbishop of the catholic church, but also deal with heroic deeds of the first catholic missionaries who are responsible for the planting of Catholicism in Northern Ghana. In this context, it is book about cultural contact, dialogue and reconciliation. As such, the book is an important contribution to the cultural history of Northern Ghana. Content: Sunset in the morning for Mwankurinaa - My roots and early years; a Dagao with the Dagara, a Sisala with the Sisala - How I cam into contact with the Missionaries - My formal education and seminary tra...

Alexis B. Tengan (ed.) Religion, Culture, Society and Integral Human Development: proceedings of Cardinal Poreku Dery third colloquium First published in 2017 by Sub-SaharanPublishers P.O.Box 358 Legon-Accra Contact/Order: click Synopsis: The present book presents a collection of papers presented during the third Cardinal Poreku Dery Colloquium held at Wa, Ghana. Cardinal Dery Colloquia are part of an action research movement and study initiated by Dr. Alexis B. Tengan since 2003 which are seeking to provide a heritage institution of integral human development in the fullest sense of the term. The focus of the movement is to create intellectual awareness for self and guided education into the depths of religious, cultural, economic, social and philosophical movements and ideas before and after foreign religious (Islam, Christianity etc.) arrival particularly in northern Ghana and in Africa generally. The main...

In March 2007, I began to work with Peter Cardinal Poreku Dery to make digital copies of his picture collections which he has put together either in albums, or in envelopes or as unrelated singles. Using a flatbed scanner, I was able to make digital copies of all the pictures that were not framed and that he and I could locate in the house. He was sure that there were many others that we could not immediately locate. The originals of the pictures we could find and scanned were collected together and given to him to keep. It had been my intention to make digital copies of the framed pictures someday; but that did not happen because of his untimely death. I am publishing the listing below in order to give sense of the extent of the collection and passion with which they were preserved.  Needless to say that the current listing including file titles and album descriptions are my own creation. Digital File Title Original Identification of Images Album Descriptio...