The past happenings of societies are brought together in a celebratory manner in most African praise poems. The present article seeks to look at praise poetry in two Ghanaian societies – the Akan and the Dagbamba (also known as Dagombas). In their descriptive traditions, bards use ornamented language to describe their patrons. It is the objective of this article to look at the ornamentations that these practitioners use in the poetry, and how the poems encode narrated history and offer commentaries on political figures. An ethnographic approach is used to look into this aspect with the aim of establishing how the genre encodes past historical happenings. Two principal written texts, one each from the two cultures, are used as the skeleton around which the essay is fleshed out, and then further amplified with material from participatory ethnographic enquiry among praise-singing practitioners.

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达格班巴和阿坎称赞诗歌是历史和政治事件的清晰叙事平台

在大多数非洲赞美诗中，过去的社会经历都以庆祝的方式汇集在一起​​。本文旨在探讨加纳的两个社会中的赞美诗-阿坎族和达格班巴族（也称为达戈姆巴）。在他们的描述性传统中，吟游诗人使用装饰性语言来描述他们的顾客。本文的目的是研究这些从业人员在诗歌中使用的装饰，以及这些诗歌如何编码叙述的历史并提供对政​​治人物的评论。人种学方法用于调查此方面，目的是确定该体裁如何编码过去的历史事件。两篇主要的书面文本，分别来自两种文化，被用作围绕该论文充实的骨架，