Join Alhambra Library for a craft inspired by Africa. By Originating from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa, Adinkra ...

Gold has long been at the heart of Akan culture. The Ghanaian interior is rich in its deposits, and goldworking was already a well-honed art when Portuguese traders first anchored off Ghana’s ...

Gender activist and feminist Felicity Nelson has stated that the funeral of President Jerry John Rawlings should not have been dominated by Akan culture given that he was an Ewe. She is insisting ...

In moving through this chronology, visual expressions shift away from articulating the power of an individual ruler and towards the prestige of Akan culture. Such changes may have come in response to ...

The paper explores the Akan concept of family based on their cultural ideologies and proverbs. The paper adopts the framework of language ideology that looks at how a people rationalise their language ...

What makes the Bahamas special among other carnivals is the infusion of Junkanoo, which represents the Akan culture of the Bahamas. Carnival is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Hundreds of revelers ...

The proverbs also suggested that, in Akan culture, people are expected to take individual responsibility for their own emotional experiences. One example of this expectation is found in the ...