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An Akan stool believed to be for a Queen mother, 1940–1965, in the collection of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The title of Queen mother Ohemmaa can relate to the rank of a paramount queen, a queen or a sub-queen. The Akan honorific is the same as for the men, "Nana". When using English, Ghanaians often say "queen mother".
Enid Margaret "Peggy" Appiah (née Cripps), MBE (/ ˈ æ p i ɑː / AP-ee-ah; 21 May 1921 – 11 February 2006), was a British children's author, philanthropist and socialite.. The youngest daughter of the Rt Hon. Sir Stafford and Dame Isobel Cripps, [1] she was the wife of Ghanaian lawyer and political activist Nana Joe Appiah, and mother of the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Samson Kwame Oppong also Sampson Opon or Opong (c. 1884 – c.1960 or 1965) was a controversial Akan Christian preacher-prophet on the Gold Coast in the 1920s. [1] [2 ...
The list of Akan people includes notable individuals of Akan meta-ethnicity and ancestry; the Akan people who are also referred to as (Akan: Akanfo) are a meta-ethnicity and Potou–Tano Kwa ethno-linguistic group that are indigenously located on the Ashantiland peninsula near the equator precisely at the "centre of the Earth".
Paramount Chief(Akyem Abuakwa hene) Picture Start End Comments c. 1500 – Foundation of Akyem Abuakwa state (also called Okyeman): First Dynasty (c. 1500 – 1733) [1]: 1 ...
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The Akan people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in western Africa. They have as many as more than twenty clans groups within the community. They have as many as more than twenty clans groups within the community.
The Akan waged war on neighboring states in their geographic area to capture people and sell them as slaves to Europeans (Portuguese) who subsequently sold the enslaved people along with guns to the Akan in exchange for Akan gold. Akan gold was also used to purchase enslaved people from further up north via the Trans-Saharan route.