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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Dr Niagia Santuah, the Head of Department (HoD) of Culture and Development Studies at the Miller Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies in Bolgatanga, has identified a looming danger in the selection of queen mothers in Northern Ghana. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a very contentious issue and I am just unable to understand how people didn\u2019t see that this is potentially dangerous. Not only does it smack of internal colonialism, but it is potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we do not even know in a traditional area in Northern Ghana, who qualifies to be a queen mother. Is it the chief\u2019s sister or the chief\u2019s wife,\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n

Dr Santuah said this in an interview on the sideline of a book launch titled \u201cThe Royal History of Nandom: The untold story (1887-2022),\u201d in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region.<\/p>\n

Citing Navrongo as example, the HoD said \u201cIf the chief\u2019s sister goes to marry in Nakpanduri and she is the queen mother, what happens? How can she stay in Nakpanduri and conduct traditional business in Navrongo?<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if is the chief\u2019s wife who becomes the queen mother, who is from South Africa for instance, and there is a divorce, and she returns to South Africa, what happens? Does that mean they have lost a queen mother?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said things were evolving, and expressed fear that in about 10 to 50years to come, the sons of queen mothers would come to traditional areas in Northern Ghana to make claims to chieftaincy skins by virtue of the positions of their mothers as queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been instances where a queen mother was a wife of the chief, they divorced, and she left the husband\u2019s home and was staying in her father\u2019s house far away from where she exercised her queen mother role.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe attends functions of queen mothers and doesn\u2019t go back to her husband\u2019s house to report because she doesn\u2019t belong there anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are just trivial issues. The real issue is about their children coming to claim chieftaincy titles in the future, when we all might have forgotten about who they are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the concept of queen mothers should not be seen as promoting gender equality, noting that there were things that could be done to show gender sensitiveness rather than the role of queen mothers which he described as \u201cTokenism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what should be done, Dr Santuah said \u201cWe need to come to grips in the first place that we have made a mistake, before we start thinking about how to resolve it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not blame anybody, we are all in this together, if it is a conversation we need to have, let\u2019s keep the conversation rolling and let\u2019s see how far we can go. If we come to terms that this is an issue that we overlooked, we will find a way to deal with it,\u201d Dr Santuah said.<\/p>\n

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Dr Niagia Santuah, the Head of Department (HoD) of Culture and Development Studies at the Miller Institute for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies in Bolgatanga, has identified a looming danger in the selection of queen mothers in Northern Ghana. \u201cIt is a very contentious issue and I am just unable to understand how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":58631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5099],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-58632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"\nHead of culture studies sees a lingering danger in\u00a0choosing \u00a0queen mothers - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Niagia Santuah, the Head of Department (HoD) of Culture and Development Studies at the Miller Institute for Transd ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Head of culture studies sees a lingering danger in\u00a0choosing \u00a0queen mothers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Niagia Santuah, the Head of Department (HoD) of Culture and Development Studies at the Miller Institute for Transd ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-03T16:32:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/sm_1699014539.02719.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Head of culture studies sees a lingering danger in\u00a0choosing \u00a0queen mothers\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-03T16:32:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\"},\"wordCount\":514,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2023\/11\/sm_1699014539.02719.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/head-of-culture-studies-sees-a-lingering-danger-in-choosing-queen-mothers\",\"name\":\"Head of culture studies sees a lingering danger in\u00a0choosing \u00a0queen mothers - 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