Konadu calls attention to the historic formation of Akan culture in West Africa and its reach into the Americas. He examines the Akan experience in Guyana,Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, former Danish and Dutch colonies, and North America, and how those early experiences foreground the contemporary engagement andmovement of diasporic Africans and Akan people between Ghana and North America. INDICE: 1.: On Diaspora and the Akan in the Americas; 2.: Quest for theRiver, Creation of the Path: West Africa and Akan Culture Development to the Sixteenth Century; 3.: History and Meaning in Akan Societies, 1500 - 1800; 4.:'The Most Unruly': The Akan in Danish and Dutch America; 5.: The Antelope (adowa) and the Elephant ( sono): The Akan in the British Caribbean; 7.: 'All of the Coromantee Country': The Akan Diaspora in North America; 8.: Diaspora Discourses: Akan Spiritual Praxis and the Claims of Cultural Identity
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539064-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 322
- Fecha Publicación: 03/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés