A NOTE  ON THE ANCESTRAL LINK BETWEEN NANA  AHIMA FAMILY

             OF ASSIN DANSAME (CENTRAL REGION) AND THE

SHARDOW ABARI FAMILY OF ACCRA ( GREATER-ACCRA REGION).

                        Contributed by Prof. Abu Shardow Abarry.

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According to written and oral family history, Nana Ahima was born into the Asona royal family of Assin Dansame in the Central Region about the third quarter of the 19th century.

She had one sister called  Nana Ataa and two brothers, namely Akwasi Kumi and Kwabena Fun . In the late 19th century, she met and got married to Abari, a son of an African Officer of the Gold Coast Constabulary, then domiciled in the Central.

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Nana gave birth to a boy called Sulley Akwasi ( Paa Akwasi Nkran, Baa Danjoe), and two girls, Nana Abena and Akosua Gata. When Abari later re-settled in Accra with his father, Paa Akwasi and his sisters went along. While in Accra, Paa Akawsi met and married Adi and za, the daughter of Chief Zubeiru Shardow, and niece of Nii Kwartey Titus Glover-Quartey, the first Acting African Government Printer of the Gold Coast.  Their marriage was blessed with six children, four male ( Abdul Rahman (Dadi), Umar ( Danjoe), Ali ( Barta), and Gibrine ( Baba Anti) and two female ( Hanatu and Habsatu /Kande).

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 Paa Akwasi's imediate younger, sister Abena got married to a Muslim in Accra, and gave birth to a  female child who was also named Abena ( Lauratu). The latter also got married in Accra and bore six children, three boys and three girls.

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Paa Akwasi's other sister, Nana Akosua Gata,  later relocated to Dansame with their mother, and got married  to Opanin Kwame Asampong of the Ekona royal family of Dansame. They bore five children, consisting of  Uncle Kwame ( died in London in 1979) and Maame Fosua, the mother of Ohenenana Antwi-Boasiako, ( popularly called Teacher), one-time Ghana Broadcasting Staton Manager at Obuasi (Ashanti Rgion), and his sisters.

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Nana Ahima ("the oak tree" died in Dansame in 1956 about the same time her first husband Abari died in Accra. Maame Fosua, the last surviving grand-niece of Nana Ahima,  died in Dansame in 2017 The kinship ties that bind  members of Nana Ahima's  family of Dansame and  and those of the Shardow Abari family of Accra have persisted from the 19th century till the present time.