The Akan Diaspora in the Americas

by Kwasi Konadu

PDF, 2010

Publication

Oxford University Press (2010), Edition: 1, 324 pages

ISBN

0195390644 / 9780195390643

Notes

CONTENTS
1. On Diaspora and the Akan in the Americas
2. Quest for the River, Creation of the Path: West Africa and Akan Culture Development to the Sixteenth Century
3. History and Meaning in Akan Societies, 1500 - 1800
4. "The Most Unruly": The Akan in Danish and Dutch America
5. The Antelope (adowa) and the Elephant ( sono) : The Akan in the British Caribbean
7. "All of the Coromantee Country": The Akan Diaspora in North America
8. Diaspora Discourses: Akan Spiritual Praxis and the Claims of Cultural Identity
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