In My Father’s House Two Tales of Jewish Origin among the Ga-Adangme of Accra in 2015

Abstract

In Accra, two houses represent two distinct places that portray memories of a Jewish origin. One of them is the stool house of the royal Nikolai family. On a mural the wanderings of the Ga-Adangme ancestors from Israel into West Africa is portrayed. The other house holds the burial place of Wulff Joseph Wulff, a Danish Jew who settled in Osu in 1836. In this article, I will compare the two narratives and reflect on how both contribute to a contemporary Jewish myth of the origin of the Ga-Adangme-speaking peoples of Ghana.