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The study followed a qualitative case study design utilizing interviews to collect data. Using purposive sampling, data was collected from chiefs and queen mothers among the Akan people selected through key informants. Inductive thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The study revealed that advice giving, prophesies, prescriptions and reenforcements are the practices that constitute traditional guidance and counselling in the observed community. The study also discovered that there is a theoretical underpinning to the practice of traditional guidance and counselling; however, though very functional, its major weakness is that it barely relies on empirical procedures. Based on the latter weakness, the study recommends that seminars and workshops should be organized for practitioners of traditional guidance and counselling to train some of them meeting the level of education but not conversant with how to use some psychometric tools to reliably predict and interpret clients’ aptitudes, personalities and interests when need be. Furthermore, the study recommends that to maintain the African philosophy, the people need to go back to their roots to reclaim from their past practices what is wholesome and best, merge it with best western practices and use it to rebuild African guidance and counselling with modernity. This would enable them to render a more satisfying and effective assistance to their clients.\u003Cbr>Keywords: Traditional guidance and counseling, Akans, confidentiality, working model and theories. |\n| --- |\n| *Corresponding author. E-mail: [kuranchiealf@yahoo.com](kuranchiealf@yahoo.com). |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nTraditional guidance and counselling is the aboriginal ways (putting into consideration the beliefs and customs) in which a person or persons of authority in the society consciously and/or unconsciously steer individuals towards a path for developing potentials, fulfilling societal demands and modifying undesirable behaviours. The words “conscious” and “unconscious” come into play here because, these practices occur sometimes without any special intent. In the like manner, most of the guidance offered to individuals is unnoticed because they are deeply embedded in daily activities.  \nLike most other African countries, guidance began in Ghana as advice giving (Taylor and Buku, 2006) . Guidance and counselling are ideas that have existed fora very long time in the Ghanaian society. From time  \nimmemorial, people have sought self-understanding and the understanding of other people in many ways and especially in the Ghanaian society where people, mostly the younger generation, have always had other people (usually elderly people) direct them in all of their endeavours. In other words, the elderly people in oneway or another steer or counsel the younger people so that they continue to live useful and fulfilling lives.  \nGuidance in itself has always been deeply rooted in the Ghanaian culture in such a way that it is a part of people’s life style. Most things a typical Ghanaian child does either advertently or inadvertently is as a result of some form of received Guidance and counselling through his or her nuclear and extended family, and the society at large. From cradle to grave, everyone needs guidance  \n(Bedu-Addo, 2014) and counselling on one’s life. 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