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Kumasi Cultural Centre is 50

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 Source:  

THE Centre for National Culture (CNC) in Kumasi is 50 years old. A nine-member committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Execute has been set up to plan activities to commemorate the occasion.

Vesta Adu Gyamfi, a lecturer at the college of art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Mr Okyere Darko, Director of the centre, Mr. Kookier Addae Mensah, of the regional co-ordinating council, Mr E.C. Nyarko a lecturer at KNUST, Mrs Rebecca Akita of the Ghana library board, Mrs. Georgina Acquah of the Ghana Education Service, Oheneba Kwame Kyeretwie, a member of the Ghana national commission on culture representing the traditional authorities and Mr S. F. Adjei, deputy director of the of the centre.

Among some of the activities planned are competition in traditional games, photo exhibition, essay competitions, art and craft contest and quiz, home-coming summit, outdoors that involves draft and traditional game competitions with lots of traditional cuisine, good music and dance, film shows, focus on the tourist and investment opportunities of the various districts of the region food fairs, workshop on highlife music masquerades competition, competition on how to wear the traditional cloth, the celebration of Akwasidae, durbar for queen mothers, Akin display of traditional norms and practices, evenings of history on funeral how to contract marriages story telling and proverbs. Others are drama competition for training colleges, choral music festival children's day celebrations Kyerematen memorial lectures concert party show, trade fair/NAFAC special gospel music extravaganza highlife night football matches between King Faisal and Kotoko as well as goldfields and Kowhai, special Gyewani mock jubilee durbar and cultural awards night among others. The traditional games to for the contest are oware, dame (draft) ntesie (marbles playing) playing cards (spaatoo) and catapult shooting (tayatoo) according to the organizers registration for traditional games contest has already began and closes on October 16, 2002.

Organisers of the games have drawn up regulations a rules govern the contest. For oware and dame the competition would be on strictly knockout basis and a player who wins three out five games against an opponent becomes the winner of a particular game. The rules indicate that contestants have only a minute to study the board for their moves. The umpire or referee has the power to stop the game and declare any offender of this rule as the loser as the particular round. Any contestant found, beyond reasonable doubt to be taking cues from a spectator would be declared a loser of the round by the umpire.

Teasing and jokes from players are allowed but the umpire at his discretion has power to caution a player for using uncouth words. Two cautions will cost a contestant the loss of a particular round. At all stages of a game, the umpire will use a toss of the coin to decide a winner after two consecutive tie-ups between two opponents. The umpire's decision is always final and must be respected and obeyed.

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