Avatime (people)

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The Avatime are a people in Ghana who are also called Afatime , Sideme or Sia . Your mother tongue is the avatime .

Around 24,000 to 26,000 Avatime live in Ghana, most of them populating the areas of the Avatime Mountains of the same name, a mountain region belonging to the Akwapim-Togo chain in the so-called Krepi country. The language of the Avatime is also called Avatime and its area of ​​distribution is considered to be a foreign-language enclave within the Ewe language area surrounding it . Ewe is also understood and spoken throughout the country. In addition, the members of this ethnic group often speak the languages ​​of neighboring peoples.

The Avatime are considered to be one of the so -called Remnant Togo peoples who have already settled the local areas before Ewe groups immigrated to the local area in the 1670s and afterwards, coming from Nodschie, and found new settlements here. The neighboring groups of the Nyangbo and Tafi , also belonging to the remaining Togo peoples, are sometimes viewed as subgroups of the Avatime.

The original seat or home of Avatime is Amedzofe with the neighboring mountain Gemi. Mountain and place also have a religious meaning, because Amedzofe means in the Ewe religion "place of origin " or "soul home", which is one of several names (or part of) the Mawuwe , the kingdom of God (literally: "Mawu's home") ). The fact that religious elements of a resident population have found their way into the religious world of the immigrants indicates a more or less peaceful reception, which immigrant groups of the Ewe once experienced in the Avatime mountain regions.

With the Avatime there is traditionally the institution of a queen as secular tribal head, which indicates an earlier matrilineality (mother right), as it is also known from the Akan of the Gold Coast, and that with all the remaining Togo peoples before the Ewe and Dagomba - Immigration seems to have been present across the board. Patrilinearity (father right) only came to Avatime with the Ewe immigration .

Until the establishment of the German colonial power in the 19th century, the Avatime were politically subordinate to the King of Peki.

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  1. Sometimes referred to as the Peki Avatime mountain range