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Guan Influence on Akan Culture
Before the Akan spread across the forest lands of what is now Ghana, the Guan people were already settlers.
They were the first to settle...
Ancient Priesthood of the Tano Shrines
Long before the arrival of foreign faiths, the Akan people listened to the voice of rivers. Among those ancient waters, none perhaps carried greater...
Of Art & Gold: The Craftsmen of Early Akan Societies
Gold has always been more than just an "ornament" for the Akans. Its gleams are represented gloriously not only in the crowns and bracelets...
An Akan Approach to Artistic Immortality
In Akan thought, the hand that shapes clay does not merely create form but also gives life to memory.
Art among the Akan is not...
Okomfo Anokye: The Spirit Behind the Throne
Every nation has its thinker, its seer, the one who stands between the world of men and the world of the gods. For the...
Denkyira and the Shadow Before the Throne
Before the golden stool descended, before Osei Tutu united the disparate states, there was Denkyira.
And in the seventeenth century, it was the most formidable...
The Heartland: Adanse
In Akan oral memory, Adanse is the cradle of civilization, the soil where Odomankoma, the Creator, began shaping the world.
Tradition holds that the ancestors...