Naming Ceremony Among The Krobos

On the second week after the birth of every child is the Naming Ceremony. The naming ceremony is done by both the families of the child parents.
The child is brought out by an elderly woman from the mother’s family at early hours of 4am in the morning to cross a street three times and also walked around until is 6am by which both parents are seated in the child mother’s family house for commencement of the naming ceremony. The ceremony is mostly done in the family house of the child’s mother.
When the families are seated, the father of the child will present to the head of the mother’s family what we called the local names or the family name for the child to be named, this is mostly done by few members of both families after which the Christian name will be give to the child again by the father after which a prayer would be said for the child.
The names also comes along with items like powder, cream, clothes, white clay and beeds from the father's family all put together in a small basin to the mother.
After the names have been giving to the child, a bowel is place on top of a table of which the father will be the first person to put money in it and later followed by all the family members, this money is raised and given to the mother as a care taken seed of the child. Drinks are later serve to families for the closure of the ceremony.

Compiled and Produced by:
Collins K. Asante.