Akan — may be: *Akan, Gabon *Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Cote D Ivoire **Akan States, any of several states organized in the 16th or 17th century by the Akan people **Akan languages, a stock of dialects spoken by the Akan people **Akan… … Wikipedia
List of rulers of the Akan states of Akwamu and Twifo-Heman — List of Rulers of the Akan (Bron) state of Akwamu (formerly Twifo Heman) = Territory comprised part of present day southern Ghana See also *Akan (ethnic group) *Ghana *Gold Coast *Lists of Incumbents … Wikipedia
Akan — /ah kahn/, n., pl. Akans, (esp. collectively) Akan for 2. 1. a language of the Kwa branch of Niger Congo spoken in much of Ghana and parts of the Ivory Coast. 2. a member of any of various Akan speaking peoples, including the Ashanti and Fanti. * … Universalium
Akan language — language name=Akan nativename= states=Ghana, Suriname speakers=19 million familycolor=Niger Congo fam2=Atlantic Congo fam3=Volta Congo fam4=Kwa fam5=Akan languages nation=None. Government sponsored languages of Ghana iso1=ak|iso2=aka… … Wikipedia
Akan, Wisconsin — Infobox Settlement official name = Akan, Wisconsin settlement type = Town nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location of Akan, Wisconsin mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision type = Country… … Wikipedia
Akan names — The Akan people of Ghana frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These names have spread through West Africa, from Benin/Dahomey (Fon) and Togo (Ewe) to the Côte d Ivoire… … Wikipedia
History of Ghana — The Republic of Ghana is named after the medieval West African Ghana Empire,[1] known to the dominant ethnic group the Soninke, as Wagadugu, which roughly translates to Land of Herds. The Empire became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana… … Wikipedia
western Africa, history of — Introduction history of the region from the 11th century to the present. A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… … Universalium
Ghana — Ghanaian, Ghanian /gah nee euhn, gan ee /, n., adj. /gah neuh, gan euh/, n. 1. a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of… … Universalium
History of Africa — Pre Colonial African States … Wikipedia
