Akan people
ethnic group in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo
Facts
8 properties- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Religion or worldview
- Christianity, Sunni Islam, Akan religion[2][3][4]
- Country
- Ghana, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Jamaica, Suriname, United States, United Kingdom, Togo[5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Described by source
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought[20]
- Has part(s)
- Fante, Brong people, Ahanta people, Akyem, Asante, Gonja people, Anyi people, Akwamu[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
- Language used
- Akan
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Smithsonian Libraries African Ethnic Groups
- Population
- +20000000[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Akan people
en Twi-Fante
en Akans
ar أكانيون
cs Akanové
da Akan
de Akan-Volk
el Άκαν
es Pueblo akan
es Pueblo Akan
fi akanit
fr peuple akan
he אקאן
ja アカン人
ja アカン族
ko 아칸족
nl Ahanta
pt Akans
ro Poporul akan
ru аканские народы
🔖 Identifiers · 26
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85003050
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Akan dancer.jpg ↗
- ARTIC artist ID
- 48023
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 29489781X
- ASCCEG 2019 ID
- 9101
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 12020802r
- Described at URL
- africanarchive.org, africanarchive.org, africanarchive.org
- Freebase ID
- /m/05g0f1
- Ghana Place Names URL
- sites.google.com
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- akan-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0156971
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 1806071
Show all 26 identifiers +14
- Grove Art Online ID
- T001348
- IdRef ID
- 028355709
- Joconde author ID
- T513-211
- KBpedia ID
- EthnicGroupOfAkan
- Museum-digital ID
- 272539
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph242430
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007292917005171
- SocioMap ID
- SM250988
- Topic's main category
- Category:Akan people
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- akan
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- akanai
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- yfz69wea
- YSO ID
- 3661
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/e1be06fa-996e-4a8b-ae82-894383ae5e70
🔗 Connections
Country 8
Has part(s) 8
← Ethnic group 6
Has these parts 5
Religion or worldview 3
← Indigenous to 2
Influenced 1
Instance of 1
Language used 1
Subtypes 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category combines topics 1
← Category's main topic 1
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Summary
Akan people is an ethnic group[1].
Body
Use and Application
Components include Fante[11], an ethnic group[21], in Ghana[22]; Brong people[12], an ethnic group[23], in Ghana[24]; Ahanta people[13], an ethnic group[25], in Ghana[26]; Akyem[14], an ethnic group[27], in Ghana[28]; Asante[15], an ethnic group[29]; and Gonja people[16], an ethnic group[30], in Ghana[31].
Why It Matters
It has been cited as an influence by Gonja kingdom[32], a kingdom[33], in Ghana[34], founded in 1675[35].
FAQs
Who did Akan people influence?
Akan people has been cited as an influence by Gonja kingdom[32].