The Akan diaspora in the Americas
By: Kwasi Konadu.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195390643
Subjects: Akan (African people) -- America -- History; Akan (African people) -- Migrations; African diaspora; Akan (African people) -- Social conditions; Akan (African people) -- Social life and customs; America -- Ethnic relations; Africa, West -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: On diaspora and the Akan in the Americas; title: Quest for the river, creation of the path : West Africa and Akan culture development to the sixteenth century; title: History and meaning in Akan societies, 1500-1800; title: "The most unruly" : the Akan in Danish and Dutch America; title: The antelope (adowa) and the elephant (sono) : the Akan in the British Caribbean; title: "All of the Coromantee country" : the Akan diaspora in North America; title: The hawk (akorma) and the chicken (akok) : commerce and social chaos in nineteenth and twentieth century Akan societies.