“Oil Palm Branch to Oil Palm Branch”: Festivals, Borders, and Trans-Border Ewe Ethnic Identities on the Ghana–Togo Border
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Abstract
This paper examines how Deza (oil palm festival) of Dzodze on the Ghana–Togo border reflects socio-cultural relations between Ewe communities in Ghana and Togo and what it means for the border itself and Ewe identities on the borderlands. Drawing from participant observations of Deza from 2016–2019 and 2022, interviews, festival memorabilia, and archival sources, the paper argues that while Deza remains an identifiably relatively new Ghanaian festival, it is a site for Ewe border-crossing that traverses and undermines the reality of the border as a barrier through temporal and spatial performances. Also, the paper demonstrates that trans-border Ewe identity, through the codification of a common Ewe history and culture, produces multiple national identities. Thus, it simultaneously denies and affirms the border by highlighting the importance of festivals for bordering and the complex identities and identification that these festivals produce on the borderlands.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".