The Akan Diaspora in the Americas by Kwasi Konadu

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By Kwasi Konadu

In his groundbreaking research of the Akan diaspora, Konadu demonstrates how this cultural workforce originating in West Africa either engaged in and went past the primary diasporic topics of maroonage, resistance, and freedom. among the 16th and 19th centuries, the Akan by no means shaped a majority between different Africans within the Americas. yet their management abilities in battle and political association, efficacy in medicinal plant use and religious perform, and tradition archived within the musical traditions, language, and styles of African diasporic existence a long way outweighed their sheer numbers. Konadu argues composite Akan tradition calibrated among the Gold Coast and wooded area fringe made the contributions of the Akan diaspora attainable. The ebook examines the Akan adventure in Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, former Danish and Dutch colonies, and North the US, and the way these early reviews foreground the fashionable engagement and move of diasporic Africans and Akan humans among Ghana and North the USA. finding the Akan variable within the African diasporic equation permits students and scholars of the Americas to higher know the way the diasporic duvet got here to be and continues to be evolving.

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