Awurade Kasa
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Truth teller, Historian, Neo Akanist
Akania — Akanis
Joined October 2024
RT @AkanArchives: Very Important information! Before the Denkyira Sasatia blade, the Abankumdwa, & the Asante Golden Stool, most Akan peopl….
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The clans dispersed due to power struggles after Awurade Basa’s death, rivalry over trade, resources, and recurring wars. Prior to this, Adansemanso stood as a powerful center, uniting the clans under the authority of the Afenakwa sword and the shared worship of the deity Bona.
@AkanAxis Is there an explanation for why they fragmented and didn't stick together?.
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Many of the royals of the 8 Akan clans traced their beginnings to Adanse, the oldest southern Akan state. From there they dispersed, establishing new settlements that grew into polities such as Denkyira, Akyem, Assin, Kwahu, Asante, etc (2/2).
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Yes, the Akan have many stories of our ancestors ‘emerging from holes in the ground.’ It’s a metaphor for living in ancient rock shelters and later claiming those emergence sites as ancestral homelands. The clans fragmenting is a different story (1/2).
@AkanAxis Is there a collective origin myth on what distinguishes the akan from their neighbors? And if so is there a myth that explains how the different clans fragmented? Thanks.
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If you have any questions about Akan pre-history, please feel free to quote or reply to this post with any questions!.
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RT @Phillip05166897: The original assertion was dumb anyway, why would European colonials live in vernacular architecture and not their own….
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Per @grok, the Akan-Sahel gold trading network dates to the 13th–14th century.
@MeloCheick @AkanAxis Historical records show Mansa Musa's wealth (1312-1337) came mainly from Mali-controlled mines like Bambuk and Bure. Akan gold trade with Sahel began around the 13th-14th centuries via intermediaries, but it was secondary and not the backbone of his empire's riches or 1324.
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Per OP’s screenshot, the Akan–Sahel gold trading network dates to as early as the 14th century. However, this does not mean all of Mansa Musa’s caravans carried Akan gold, nor does it imply the Mali Empire depended on it.
This dependence continued during the Songhai Empire until its fall to the Moroccans. The Akan then turned toward the coast with the arrival of the Europeans at the same time , and undeniably became the masters of gold in West Africa to this day.
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Before the Akan became the primary gold traders in West Africa during the 15th century, their kola nuts were already commodity for long-distance trade in the Sahel.
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Before 1482, Akan gold reached Mali indirectly through Wangara middlemen, traded for goods from the Sahel and North Africa. The Portuguese arrival on the coast disrupted this system, shifting the Akan gold trade southwards to Elmina and the Atlantic.
@GeneralPorcupin This is a lie and lack of information . The principal gold mines from the Mali empire were Bure and Bambouk, still today Mali is second in gold production in Africa . The Lobi people are also not Akan and neither is the lobi goldfields
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The rulers of Bekwai and Mampong would meet in this location on special occasions or when summoned by the Asantehene.
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An unknown photographer noted that the tallest of the three buildings belonged to the Asantehene, the one on the left to the Mamponghene, and the one on the right to the Bekwaihene.
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RT @eben_offen: In Akan culture, your mother’s sister is called Maame Ketewaa (Aunty). Her brother is not referred to as Papa Ketewaa, but….
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This is so absurd because the individuals who pioneered this method were Ghanaian researchers. Specifically, Kwaku Effah Gyamfi, James Anquandah, J. Boachie-Ansah, & others.
@AkanArchives Isn’t it also Europeans who’ve ‘connected’ the recent archeological findings to Akan material culture , which you choose to believe 🤔… why believe todays Europeans over yesterdays.
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J.B. Danquah played a key role in promoting the idea that the people of the Gold Coast were descendants of the ancient Ghana Empire. He was a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), the first political party in the country.
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According to Bono (Abron) elders interviewed in 1970–71, the name “Bono” means “first born.” According to oral tradition, the Bono were the first to occupy the land in what is now the Bono Region of central Ghana, tracing their descent from Asaman, a founding ancestor.
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By the 19th century, the term Akan had become synonymous with “pioneer” and “aborigine.”.
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According to Adanse elders interviewed in 1969, the meaning of Akan derives from the Twi root kan, meaning “first,” making Akanfoɔ translate literally as “the first people.” In oral tradition, the elders maintained that after God created the earth, he created the Akans first.
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Similar to the Golden Stool, the Afenakwa was the sword the Adansehene used to unify Adanse into a centralized power during times of war. Afena – sword.Ɔkofena – war sword .Ɔkrafena – soul sword . Each serving a different purpose.
@AkanArchives The name is Afenakwa and not Akofena…just trying to educate here. Why will we have two separate names for the same thing?.
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Adansemanso, the former capital of the old Adanse kingdom, was a major ironworking center, with excavations revealing slag heaps that confirm oral traditions of Adanse towns producing weapons, shields, and farm tools from locally smelted iron.
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