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Akan

Women Potters

Cross Cousin Marriage

If a man wants to pass his wealth to his sons, his son's lineage will get the wealth, but if his son marries his sister's daughter, the wealth goes back to the man lineage.

Green always provide the wife, while the orange matrilineage provide the husband

• Required as a chore but ends up as a profession

Kente Fabric

• Mostly used for special occasions and ceremonies

• Yam Festival: celebrating the king and the townspeople are purified of the pollution of the proceeding year

Goverance

Laws

Two forms of Government

Federal Structure

Creator of Earth

High God

Gye Nyame

Asase Yaa

Abosom/Obosom

Goddess of the earth

Centralized bureaucracy

Created by the High god to

minster for him

Dealt with relations between the Kumasi king and neighboring chiefs

Used for capturing slaves

Dealt with collecting tributes, organizing manpower in farms and gold mines

Army

Omanhere

Mostly cavalry

Ruler

Matriarchal lineage

Possessions are pass on on to the females

• Prominent role of woman-matrilineage

• King of Dahomey took thousands of wives for himself

• Slaves

• Ashanti founded a highly structured monarchy

Technology

• Guns
• Brass, bronzes, and golds
• Cavalry
• Terracotta Sculptures-made with clay
• Bauxite

Sources

Trading

Social Stucture

• Traded slaves for guns from European.
• Golds
• Cocos

• Bartle, Phil. "Studies Among the Akan People of West Africa." Studies among the Akan of West Africa; Community, History, Society, Culture. Community Empowerment Collective, 27 Nov. 2012. Web. 11 Oct. 2013.

http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/rdi/index.htm

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Market Towns

People from other clans came to trade with

each others

Farming

Centralized Governance

Trees

• Yams,
• Coco
• Sweet potatoes
• Plantains

Oman

State

Asantehene Nana Opoku Ware II

Abusua panin

Abusua Kuo

Omanhene

Coco Trees

oil palm Trees

political bureaucracy

Asantehene

High chief

Family Head

The Family

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Lead by the female

Kuro

Town/village

Ohere

Chief

Elected by the elders of the town or village