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Zabarma Chieftaincy of Kpando Marks Over 120 Years of Cultural Heritage and Traditional Leadership

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  BYLINE Author: Sarki Dr. Abdul Rahman Dauda IV The Zabarma Chieftaincy in Kpando has been recognized as one of the enduring traditional institutions preserving culture, leadership, and community identity for more than a century. Historical records indicate that the chieftaincy was established in 1904 by Shamsun Sorna I, who enskinned Sarki Garba Sayi I as the first Sarkin Zabarman of Kpando.  The institution was created to safeguard the identity, customs, and heritage of the Zabarma people while promoting peace, unity, and traditional governance within the community. Over the years, the chieftaincy developed a unique adoption-based succession system to preserve the founder’s bloodline and ensure continuity of leadership.  Traditional accounts reveal that early chiefs adopted successors into their households, where they were trained in governance, customs, and ceremonial duties before ascending the throne. The third chief, Sarki Mumuni Sorna II, ruled from 1977 to 1998 a...
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Fishermen at the mercy of plastic pollution & industrial waste contamination: A call for urgent action to save the sea

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  By:Isaac Amoah   "It's very pathetic and a threat to our livelihoods to spend a lot of money and sleepless nights in search of fishes only to return home with a few, or an empty net. "The most frustrating aspect in the fishing business in recent years is that usually when you cast nets expecting to catch fish, you rather drag the nets from the sea full of polythene bags and other plastic wastes. When we started fishing, we only needed to move a short distance on the sea and we could come back with plenty of different species of fishes. Unfortunately, the situation has changed in recent times. The nets rather catch rubbers or plastic wastes.  "We have no alternative jobs to help us pay our children's school fees, including other expenses. Due to the declining fish stocks, the fishing business is now "fish for mouth", for which reason something urgent must be done about it for us!" The above is the summary sentiments of a 36-year-old Kwesi Afadzi, ...
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