INDIGENOUS TRADITION EWE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS OF THE PAST.
Let me take you back into the past so we can talk of some of the important household items graduating going extinct if not replaced with modern inventions.
#Mekpli - (Tradition earthenware tripod cooking oven). Before the invention of coal pot and gas cylinders, our forefathers invented the stationary traditional clay tripod cooking oven made out of red clay and known in Ewe as “Mekpli”. It uses firewood as fuel and comes in sizes depending and the pots that sit on it.
Be sincere, have you eaten food prepared on “Mekpli” before? Or you say you has cooler do all...
#Eze or #Tsinoze- (Clay pots with emphasis on the one for storing drinking water). Before the coming of the Europeans and the invention of Refrigerators, our farefathers had already invented how to keep water cold for drink and that was by storing in it the “tsinoze” which is placed mostly in the corner of the room.
Be sincere, how you drank water from a “tsinoze” in any house before? Or you say e be pure water in fridge peh you know...
#Taditukpe - (Tradiotional pepper grinding stone). Before the invention of the blender, we had the “taditukpe” which was a priceless tool in every house especially when Agbametadi was a favorite menu.
Be sincere, have you ever eaten pepper from a Taditukpe before? Or you say blender does the Agbametadi for you huh...
#Gomekadigbe - (kerosene Hurricane Lantern). Before wires gave us light the hurricane lamb was the finest gentleman among his peers. He is called in Ewe “Gomekadigbe” which means “light hidden in a shell” because of the transparent glass protection which covers the light.
It was the official indoor light and one lamp that ought to be handled with care because the glass easily breaks. And this glass got a lot of kids in trouble for breaking it.
Who got spanked for breaking this glass? Or you say you know only bulb you break huh!!!
#Torkpodogui - Kerosene oil tin can lamp. Before the building of the Akosombo dam “Gormekadigbe” was one of the inventions that came after the Europeans started bringing us tin can foods. “Torkpo” means bucket and “dogui” is to be “short and filled with something”. And this name was given to this particular lamp because of the tin can looking like a “mini bucket” and it is “filled” with kerosene.
This light was the official outside light since it emitted a lot of black smoke because of the open flames unlike his yo-yo brother “Gormekadigbe”.
Come visit Volta and the Eweland and I would take you to eat food cooked on Mekpli in a pot(Eze) and you would drink water from a very neat”Tsinoze” and then they would grind “Agbametadi” on a “Taditukpe” for you whiles you spend time on the beach with a “Torkpodogui” whiles you sleep with a “Gormekadigbe” by your window.
Credit: Selorm Ameza
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