WODOKU

Excavations at Wodoku the ancestral home of the Nungua people of Accra have produced pottery a piece of terracotta figurine grinding stones glass beads iron slag animal bones and shells of molluscs. Earlier researchers have regarded the site as a seventeenth century phenomenon but a piece of a sixteenth century Martinkamp-type flask from Northern France found in the excavations suggests that the site was founded in the sixteenth century if not earlier. The author discusses the implications of th...See More