Culture
See also: Kundum FestivalThe Nzema are mostly farmers. According to their traditional Akan Calendar, days are ordered in cycles of seven, and these in turn follow each other in a three-week cycle. A religious kundum festival is held annually all over the Ahanta-Nzema area, starting in the easternmost part of Ahanta and advancing southwestward. Among other things, this festival is the main occasion on which the satirical avudewene songs are performed by young men. Lineage among the Nzema is matrilineal.
The Area was part of the Empire of Denkyira and later Empire of Ashanti.
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