Artists in Akan society, located in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast, crafted objects to bring their rulers into communication with spiritual and ancestral realms. Akan society includes a subgroup ...

AFA copy Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. Contents Volume 1. The Akan people: a documentary history -- Volume II. Akan peoples in Africa and the diaspora: a historical reader ...

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Special issue of Ghana notes and queries reproducing papers presented at a seminar at the University of Ghana, in 1965 relating to Akan history and culture. The Akan of Ghana -- The origins of the ...

This drum is one of the oldest surviving African-American objects. The drum was collected in the early 1700s in the Colony of Virginia, now part of the United States of America. The drum, however, was ...