Mpatapo — The Adinkra Symbol of Reconciliation & Peace
After the dispute is over, a question remains that is harder than the dispute itself. What happens now? The Akan people of Ghana had an answer, and they gave it a form: a knot, interlocking, with no visible beginning and no visible end. Mpatapo — the pacification knot. Not the peace that precedes conflict, which is easy. The peace that is chosen after it, which costs something. Life, the Akan proverb says, needs reconciliation. The knot is not optional. The question is only whether you will tie it.
