Ghana’s Memory Archive
Every funeral brochure holds a life: a name, a hometown, a family, a story researched with love. Nkae preserves these documents forever — so no Ghanaian life history is ever lost to time.
Nkae (Twi) — remembrance; that which is not forgotten.
Archive record · GFB-2026-0001
1932 — 2004 · aged 72
What Nkae is
When a Ghanaian passes, the family undertakes a labour of love: they trace the life, consult the elders, gather the photographs, and print a funeral brochure. Inside is a complete biography — birth and hometown, parents and clan, schooling and work, marriage and children — often reaching back generations.
Then the funeral ends, and these precious booklets sit in boxes and cupboards, on paper never meant to last. Fire, flood, insects and time take them quietly, year after year. Scholars have called them one of the richest unexplored sources of Ghanaian history — yet no institution has ever collected them.
Nkae is that institution. We digitise funeral brochures with each family’s consent, catalogue them so they can be found by name and hometown, and preserve them permanently in a secure digital archive — free of charge, as national heritage, for the generations to come.
How it works
Bring any funeral brochure to an Nkae Family Heritage Day at a church, mosque or community event near you — or to our office. A family member signs a simple consent form.
Our team scans every page on the spot. The original never leaves your sight, and goes home with you. Nothing is taken; nothing is charged.
Your relative’s record joins Ghana’s memory archive — searchable by name and hometown, at the level of openness your family chooses, protected for good.
Our promise to families
You choose whether the brochure is fully open, listed only, or kept private until a year you set. Your choice is recorded and honoured.
The brochure remains your family’s. Nkae holds a permission, not ownership — and your photographs are never used for advertising.
Any family member may ask us to restrict, correct or remove a record. We respond within 30 days, always.
We operate under Ghana’s Data Protection Act (Act 843), with signed consent for every single item in the archive.
For families at home and abroad
Nkae is being built as Ghana’s first genealogical search: every name in every brochure — parents, spouses, children, hometowns — indexed and findable. Wherever in the world Ghana’s children live, their roots will be one search away.
Archive search — opening soon
Begin today
Host a Family Heritage Day at your church, mosque or family union — or bring a single brochure to us. Every life preserved makes the archive richer for all of Ghana.
Write to us — hello@nkae.org