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The Akan people are a linguistic group of West Africa. Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
This group includes the Akuapem, the Ashanti, the Akyem, the Baoulé, the Brong, the Fante and the Nzema peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. From the fifteenth century to nineteenth century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region. Akan art is wide-ranging and renowned, especially for the tradition of crafting bronze gold weights, which were made using the "lost wax" method of casting. Branches of the Akan include the Abron and the Afutu. The Akan culture is the most dominant and apparent in present-day Ghana. The Akan are typically better educated and are in better financial positions than the other ethnic groups, historically. This is illuminated by the fact, during the slave trade, the Akan/Asante actively helped the Europeans sell other groups whom the Akan had deemed ethnically inferior.[1] Flag of the Ashanti people The Ashanti (also Asante) are a major ethnic group from Africa who speak a dialect of Akan. ...
Akyem Bosome is a traditional geopolitical entity with a non-contiguous land mass in todays the Eastern and Ashanti / Asante region of Ghana. ...
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Districts of Brong-Ahafo The Brong-Ahafo Region is located in mid-western Ghana, between the Ashanti Region and the Côte dIvoire border. ...
The MFantsefo or Fanti are an ethnic group mainly gathered in the south-western coastal region of Ghana, with some also in the Côte dIvoire. ...
The Nzema are an Akan people numbering about 328,700 people of whom 262,000 live in southwestern Ghana and 66,700 live in the southeast of Côte dIvoire. ...
Akan art is an art form that originated in West Central Africa, including the present day countries of the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. ...
Casting may be used to create artistic sculptures Casting is a manufacturing process by which a molten material such as metal or plastic is introduced into a mold, allowed to solidify within the mold, and then ejected or broken out to make a fabricated part. ...
The Abron are an Akan people of West Africa. ...
The Afutu are an ethnic group of Ghana. ...
Some of their most important mythological stories are called Anansasem. Anansesem literally means "The Spider Story". Anansesem also could mean the traveler's tales. ("spider stories" also Nyankomsem "words of a sky god"). These stories generally, but not always, revolve around Kwaku Ananse, a trickster-spider spirit. Diversity 111 families, 40,000 species Suborders Mesothelae Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae See table of families Wikispecies has information related to: Spiders Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that have two body segments, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...
Anansi is one of the most important and famous gods of west African lore. ...
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 childrens book by Michel Rodange. ...
Diversity 111 families, 40,000 species Suborders Mesothelae Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae See table of families Wikispecies has information related to: Spiders Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that have two body segments, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...
See also
Adinkra are symbols common in Western African societies that represent concepts or aphorisms. ...
The Akan language belongs to the Kwa language family. ...
The Akan people frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. ...
Bono state was an Akan state which existed from the early middle ages to the 18th century in what is now the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. ...
List of Rulers of the Akan (Bron) state of Asante (Asanteman) (Ashanti) Territory comprised part of present-day southern Ghana (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) See also Akan Ghana Gold Coast Lists of Incumbents ...
List of Rulers of the Akan state of Akyem Abuakwa (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) See also Akan Ghana Gold Coast Lists of Incumbents ...
Adamorobe Sign Language is an indigenous sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana. ...
References
Examples of Akan Language: - Akan (Akuapem)
- Akan (Asante)
- Akan (Fante)
- The Dictionary of Standard Written Akan
- ^ William R. Polk. The Birth of America, (????). p.85 The forts had originally been strongholds in which gold could be safely stored. By the middle of the seventeenth century, the gold trade was being overtaken by the slave trade; from being importers of slaves, the Akan people of the Gold Coast had become exporters. So the buildings that had originally been lockboxes were converted into prisons for captives. These prisons, or concentrations camps, were called barracoons. It was through them that most of the 10 million to 12 million Africans began the journey across the Atlantic.
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