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Akan pre-history and Neo Akanist

Manso Nkwanta, Ghana Katılım Ekim 2024
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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
Many Akan communities trace their origins to sacred forest sites and rock shelters through oral traditions. Archaeological evidence not only confirms the indigenous origins of the Akan but also shows that many settlement sites were occupied for thousands of years.
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Akanfoɔ Abrabɔ@AkanfoAbrabo·
Example of names that are distinguishable between different Akan groups in most, if not all cases.
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NeoAkan@MeraNkron·
Yoruba & Akan cognates show the relatedness that the Yam belt cultures can exhibit without the need for mass migration. Local AI language initiatives like @GhanaNLP could possibly help reconstruct Proto-Niger-Congo languages or find cognates between languages.
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NeoAkan@MeraNkron·
The Yam Civilisation Yam was domesticated between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago along the Guinea Coast. This has prompted some scholars to talk of a Yam civilisation. (Sources: Haudricourt, 1964; Coursey,1981; Miege, 1954)
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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@Array_OTB @AkanArchives The Akan did not arrive from Bono Manso or Techiman. This is a myth that was debunked 30 years ago. They already lived in communities in the southern forests before the formation of Bonomanso.
Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis

Before excavations in the Ashanti region, historians believed Akan civilization originated in the northern forest states. Evidence from Adansemanso later revealed that the southern forest states were not later offshoots but emerged simultaneously with Begho (Nsoko) and Bonomanso.

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Django with chains@Array_OTB·
@AkanArchives All Akan languages grew from a very, very old proto-language that is probably unintelligible to us and is lost to the passage of time. That language is the ancestor of Bono, which all of our ancestors spoke when they started arriving at Bono Manso and Techiman from further north
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Akan Archives@AkanArchives·
Asante is not the problem, so please read the post very carefully. Twi is the central Akan dialect, meaning that the ancestors of the Adanse, Akyem, Assin, Denkyira, Twifo, Akwamu, Kwahu, & Asante all lived together in the central forest belt. They developed a standardized dialect that became mutually intelligible among themselves. Over time, the Akan dispersed from the central forest belt due to wars, migrations, & other factors. Because of these migrations, they spread their dialect, Twi, to multiple regions. Bono & Fante are not derivatives of Twi; they come from Proto-Akan, which is the ancestral language. Twi is strictly the language spoken by the central forest Akans who originally lived in the forest belt. The inhabitants of the Eastern Region originally did not speak Twi. They adopted the language as the Akwamu & Akyem polities expanded into the Birim Valley & Guan Hills. This fusion led to the creation of Akuapem.
Nana Akowuah the second🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇭@kwakuhelate1

I think Asante is the problem here Because there’s no way you’re telling me Akuapem and Bono are Twi but Fante is not. Twi person who has not been exposed to both Akuapem and Fante before is more likely to understand Fante than Akuapem. I think we should say Fante is subset of Akan Twi instead of Asante Twi, if that will bring peace or we are separating all the other dialects from Twi all together. You can’t claim Akan and at the same time say you speak different language Akan has only one language and that’s Twi and under that we have various dialects like Bono Twi Akuapem Twi Asante Twi Fante Twi And others

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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@KissiSteve @eben_offen @Notknown_guyy @AkanArchives This is what happens when people are fed ethnocentric slop for years: new information challenges their worldview, and they get triggered. He was probably told his ethnic group was the cradle of all things Akan, now he’s mad and in denial because the facts say otherwise.
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Akan Archives@AkanArchives·
Bono was never the eldest of the Akan dialects. This is a fallacy spread by those who misinterpret the data. Bono retains more archaic speech patterns, meaning compared to Twi & Fante, it has evolved the least. This does not mean it is older or the original Akan dialect.
Big Zog@kobbie_24

@AkanArchives I want you all to understand that Twi is the canopy where Fante, Asante, Bono and Akuapim are found under. You’re saying Bono is not twi. But it’s the eldest of all twi dialects so how is it not twi. Twi is not synonymous to Asante Twi.

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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@Notknown_guyy @KissiSteve @eben_offen @AkanArchives Guy, all the information comes from locals, rulers, & elders that were interviewed by scholars. Most of the scholars that did a majority of the field work were from the region. J. Boachie Ansah and Kwaku Effah Gyamfi were both historians from Bono, who contributed.
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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@Notknown_guyy @eben_offen @AkanArchives You idiot, all this information is from oral testimonies. Where do you think the data came from ? People like Dennis M. Warren, went to Takyiman & lived there for 8 years. The information he acquired came primarily from the Takyimanhene & the council of elders during the 70s.
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UNKNOWN@Notknown_guyy·
@AkanAxis @eben_offen @AkanArchives lol. You need to up your intellectuality game bro. History can be oral or written. It’s the same oral that’s is written
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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@eben_offen @Notknown_guyy @AkanArchives When these people have no evidence, they will tell you they got their knowledge from these mysterious “elders”, that nobody else has access to. It’s very ignorant to dismiss basic date and field work because you can’t accept the facts due to pride.
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Akan Archives@AkanArchives·
This is not a portrait of Nganga Nzumbi (Ganga Zumbi). The image is titled African Man, painted in 1641 by Dutch artist Albert Eckhout. The weapon depicted is an afena, a ceremonial Akan sword.
Kentah Gwanjez@GWANJEZ

Nganga Nzumbi was the first leader of the massive runaway slave settlement of Quilombo dos Palmares, or Angola Janga, in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil. Zumba was a slave who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation and eventually rose the position of highest authority

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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@TheDumbTechGuy @233kwasi Cope, you’re getting ratiod. Rather than admit your original statement was misinformation you’d rather play victim. Ignorance is truly bliss.
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Akan Archives@AkanArchives·
This is false. After the fall of the Akwamu Empire, members of its royal faction were sold into slavery & taken to the Americas. Akwamu was one of the biggest slave trading states on the Gold Coast, & its military reach stretched from south-central Ghana to the coast of present-day Benin.
TheSophisticatedDumbTechGuy@TheDumbTechGuy

If you a Ghanaian, you're quite likely to be the descendant of a slave trader. You're definitely not the descendant of a slave.

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Awurade Kasa@AkanAxis·
@TheDumbTechGuy @AkanArchives @EbenezerAw64629 Buddy, you said some nonsense and got corrected. Stop this soap opera stuff and just admit you didn’t have the facts. There were just as many people enslaved and forced to mine, farm, fight wars, etc in Africa. That means there are pope today who descend from those slaves.
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Ɔhene🕷@GeneralPorcupin·
What was the best function in the Ashanti bureaucracy? - Military - Diplomat - Merchant - Royal guard - District chief
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Akan Archives@AkanArchives·
Before the Bankam Dwa (Bankam Bead Stool) & the Sika Dwa (Golden Stool), the Afena was the original symbol of power in Akan societies. It was tied to ntoro (patrilineal lineage) & passed from father to son. The original creator of the sword was Awurade Basa of Adansemanso.
Ghana Facts@TheGhanaNation

What do the symbols on the Sword of State, communicate? Let’s dig in It is of solid gold, and its design is based on that of the double-bladed "Afena-nta" It bears on one side the following symbols: 1. ‘Nyame-tumi’ (a square, a circle and a and triangle, known as…1/3

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Akanfoɔ Abrabɔ@AkanfoAbrabo·
Some designs and variants of ahenema.
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