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Owuo Atwedee Adinkra symbol — a ladder-like geometric form representing mortality, humility, and the shared human passage through life toward death
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Owuo atwedee, obiara beka ho. The ladder of death — everyone will climb it. Six words in Twi. The Akan named it plain...

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