The Keta Market Booklet – Download
Download the Keta Market Booklet here. The book has insight into the market and life beyond the market (schools).
An extract from the book read
“The Keta Market was not just a place for trading, it was an institution altogether, a frenzied beehive that attracted an entire hinterland to itself; it was synonymous with the town which would not exist without it.
“The market was presumably as old as Keta itself and would have, as such, experienced all the vicissitudes of its host. But when the Bremen missionaries first arrived at Keta in 1853, they found just a few huts and a lone shop lining a single street – no mention was made of a market. Any previous houses and market would have been blown up and set ablaze by the cannons of Fort Prinzenstein during the last of the many ‘wars’ that the Danes waged with the inhabitants, then known as Agudzeawo.
“However, by the late 1940s and early 1950s, when I was growing up in Keta, the market had already developed into a major regional distribution and trading hub. All activities were dictated by and centred around the market day; when one could perform a wedding ceremony, find transportation to distant destinations, pay a visit to friends and relatives all depended on the days market was held. Aside from the normal names for the days of the week, there were also unique names for the four-day market cycle: asidinki (day-after), domegbe (day-between), asimloegbe (day-before), and asigbe (market-day)!”
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