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Akan (əkän`, äk`ən), people of W Africa, primarily in Ghana, where they number over 7.5 million, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo. They speak languages of the Twi branch of the Kwa subfamily. Although patrilineal descent is recognized, matrilineal descent is more important; social organization is built around the clan. The Ashanti Ashanti (äshän`tē) or Asante ..... Click the link for more information. and the Fanti Fanti (făn`tē, fän`–), black African ethnic group, S Ghana, living around Cape Coast and Elmina, one of the Akan peoples. ..... Click the link for more information. , both of Akan stock, developed powerful confederacies and kingdoms in the 17th and 18th cent. AkanCluster of peoples inhabiting southern Ghana, eastern Côte d'Ivoire, and parts of Togo. Their languages are of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo languages. In the 14th–18th centuries several Akan states, notably the Fante confederacy and the Asante empire, formed in regions where gold was produced and traded. Many of the Akan, who number some 16 million, work in urban districts. |
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For example, in the "Art and Power" gallery we
open with the leadership arts of the Cameroon Grassfields, but will
change this display in two years to feature Akan royal arts of
Ghana-another area of strength in our collections. ) Examples are found in Paraguay, New Hebrides, New Guinea,
Malukula Big Nambas, Morocco, and Africa (Riffian Ambo, Ndembu, Akan,
Baushi, Batetela, Mongo, Lamba, and Warramunga). This is the message pronounced
in the Akan mythology of Ghana where the Sankofa bird speaks to us
"To return and recover it. |
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