'''Maame Harris Tani''', sometimes known as '''"Grace"''' (c. 1870s/1880s – 1958) was a Ghanaian religious figure.
Born in the town of Krisan in the Western Region of what would become Ghana, Tani was a member of the Nzema people.<ref name="oxfordreference.com">{{cite journal|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-1978?rskey=SLdroV&result=1978|title=Tani, Maame Harris – Oxford Reference|year=2012|access-date=3 October 2017|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-538207-5|editor1-last=Akyeampong|editor1-first=Emmanuel K|editor2-first=Henry Louis|editor2-last=Gates|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She gained a reputation as a healer and herbalist early in life. In 1914 she became the first person converted by William Wadé Harris, whose third wife she became. She developed a talent for spirit possession, and with Papa Kwesi John Nackabah became a leader in the Twelve Apostles Church of Ghana when Harris returned to Ivory Coast.<ref name="Sheldon2005">{{cite book|author=Kathleen E. Sheldon|title=Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=36BViNOAu3sC|year=2005|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5331-7}}</ref> The church remains popular today; central to its existence is the healing ritual known as ''sunsum edwuma'', or "spiritual work", performed with water in basins and developed by Maame Tani in the 1920s.<ref name="oxfordreference.com"/>
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Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:1958 deaths Category:Ghanaian religious leaders Category:Converts to Protestantism Category:People from Western Region (Ghana) Category:20th-century Ghanaian people Category:20th-century Ghanaian women Category:20th-century Protestant religious leaders Category:20th-century women Christian religious leaders Category:Women Protestant religious leaders Category:Nzema people
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