Momome information

Momome is a female cleansing ritual among some Akan groups in the present day Ghana and Ivory Coast. The ritual is aimed at cleansing the community from impending crisis.^[1] The momome ritual in the precolonial setting was held in response to wars but within the twentieth century it was increasingly evoke in moments of crisis (illness, deposition, death) of prominent figures of the chiefly establishment.^[2]^[3]

^ Boni, Stefano (2008). "Female Cleansing of the Community. The Momome Ritual of the Akan World". Cahiers d'études africaines (in French). 192 (4): 765–790. doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.15502. hdl:11380/608559. ISSN 0008-0055.
^ Boni, Stefano (2008). "Female cleansing of the community: the 'Momome' ritual of the Akan world". Cahiers d'études africaines. 48 (192): 765–790.
^ "Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers". 2018-10-19. doi:10.1215/9781478002635-003. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[1] Boni, Stefano (2008). "Female Cleansing of the Community. The Momome Ritual of the Akan World". Cahiers d'études africaines (in French). 192 (4): 765–790. doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.15502. hdl:11380/608559. ISSN 0008-0055.

[2] Boni, Stefano (2008). "Female cleansing of the community: the 'Momome' ritual of the Akan world". Cahiers d'études africaines. 48 (192): 765–790.

[3] "Genies, Witches, and Women: Locating Female Powers". 2018-10-19. doi:10.1215/9781478002635-003. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)