Akan is an This article or section should be merged with ethnicity An ethnic group is a group of people who identify with one another, or are so identified by others, on the basis of a boundary that distinguishes them from other groups. This boundary may take any of a number of forms... ethnic group from western World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest continent in both area and population, after Eurasia. At about 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land... Africa. This group includes the Ashanti, the For the writer, see John Fante. The Fante are an ethnic group from southern Ghana with some also in the Côte dIvoire. Currently they number about 500,000. During the eighteenth century they formed the Fante Confederacy. Fante can also refer to the Fante language. Categories: Ethnicity stubs... Fante and the Nzema peoples of The Republic of Ghana is a nation of Africa, specifically West Africa within Sub-Saharan Africa. It borders Côte dIvoire to the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo to the east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south. National motto: Freedom and Justice Official language... Ghana and Côte dIvoire (often called Ivory Coast in English; see below about the name) is a country in West Africa. It borders Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana to the west, north, and east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south. One of the most... Côte d'Ivoire. From the fifteenth century to nineteenth century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region. They are known for their gold weights, which were made using the "lost wax" method of This article is about the manufacturing process. In entertainment, casting is a pre-production process for selecting a cast of actors and other talent for a live or recorded performance. See also Cast (computer science) for explicit type conversion and casting (sport). Casting is a process by which a material... casting.

Some of their most important mythological stories are called Anansasem (" Families Suborder Mesothelae     Liphistiidae (primitive burrowing spiders) Suborder Mygalomorphae     Atypidae (atypical tarantula)     Antrodiaetidae (folding trapdoor spider)     Mecicobothriidae (dwarf tarantulas)     Hexathelidae (venomous funnel-web tarantula)     Dipluridae (funnel-web tarantula)     Cyrtaucheniidae... spider stories" also Nyankomsem "words of a sky god"). These stories generally, but not always, revolve around Anansi is one of the most important and famous gods of west African lore. He is a trickster and a culture hero, who acts on behalf of Nyame (his father, the sky god) and brings rain to stop fires and performing other duties for him. Eventually, Anansi was replaced by... Kwaku Ananse, a In the study of mythology, folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit or human hero who breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (eg. Eris) or... trickster- Families Suborder Mesothelae     Liphistiidae (primitive burrowing spiders) Suborder Mygalomorphae     Atypidae (atypical tarantula)     Antrodiaetidae (folding trapdoor spider)     Mecicobothriidae (dwarf tarantulas)     Hexathelidae (venomous funnel-web tarantula)     Dipluridae (funnel-web tarantula)     Cyrtaucheniidae... spider spirit.

The highest god is Brekyirihunuade ("he who knows and sees everything").

See also: The Akan language belongs to the Kwa language family. It is spoken in Ghana, and is made up of a group of similar languages which are mutually intelligible. Among the twelve dialects are Ashanti, Fante, Akuapem, Akyem, Twi, Kwahu and Brong. The Akan language is one of the primary government... Akan (language)

External Links

• Akan gold trade (http://www.maltergalleries.com/archives/auction99/mar2799.html)

Examples of Akan Language:

• Akan (Akuapem) (http://www.language-museum.com/a/akan-akuapem.php)
• Akan (Asante) (http://www.language-museum.com/a/akan-asante.php)
• Akan (Fante) (http://www.language-museum.com/a/akan-fante.php)
• The Dictionary of Standard Written Akan (http://kasa.ghanathink.org)