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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".
The Akan (/ ˈ æ k æ n /) people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa.The Akan speak languages within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. [2]
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.
[5] [6] The Ashanti people usually give these names so that the names of close relatives be maintained in the families to show the love for their families. [5] [6] In the olden days of Ashanti it was a disgrace if an Ashanti man was not able to name any child after his father and/or mother because that was the pride of every Ashanti household.
The Anufo or Chakosi are an Akan people who live in the Dapaong and (Sansanné-)Mango areas of Togo, as well as in Ghana. [1] They trace their origin to a place called Anou or Ano on the Komoé River in the Ivory Coast. [1] [2] Thus, they refer to themselves Anoufou "people of Anu". [1]
Akosua is an Akan given name to a female child born on Sunday (Kwasiada). [1] [2] It is mostly practised by all Akan (i.e Ashanti, Akuapem, Akyem, Akwamu, Bono, Fante) people who follow traditional customs. [3] People born on particular days are supposed to exhibit the characteristics or attributes and philosophy, associated with the days.
Category:Names by country which covers family names as well as given names; Category:Given names by culture; Subcategories. ... Category: Surnames of Akan origin.
Their mighty Guan culture have had influence on neighbouring Akan cultures.Akans,especially the borbor Mfantsefo had adopted their names and some cultural elements and fused it with theirs through integration to produce modern cultures which is shared by both the Guan people of Winneba and their Akan neighbours.However,Efutu just like other ...