Akan

Among the Akan of Ghana, naming is a unique socio-cultural practice; they sometimes name their infant based on the day of the week the child was born.

Camekan's Love Cups celebrate the history of glassmaking in Turkey but with whimsy and originality and Erdem Akan shows the edgier contemporary design at play in an ever evolving country.

Based on her research findings MacLean attempts to answer these questions by challenging "previous assumptions about institutions, social capital, and the nature of the African state" by pointing out that since the Akan villages on both sides of the border consider themselves as one and the same people, "diverse histories of colonial and postcolonial state formation" have shaped the puzzling differences in the informal institutions of social reciprocity and citizenship at the local-level (p.

The Akan people do not regard, and never have regarded, Onyame as their tribal god.

I see an image of the Akan, born mystically by the dead queen who was the warlord of her kingdom.

In an earlier work, "The Akan Concept of Mind", Wiredu (1983:121) noted that the universality of one human family is based on the okra which according to him is equal in all human beings at all time because it transcends the biological.

The CPS said the warrant listed nine offences and stated that "between 2004 and 2005, the defendant conspired with others (named as Tuncel Tahir Soycan and Akan Kursat Talat) to develop land which did not belong to them, and to sell villas built without permission upon that land by means of false representations to the prospective purchasers".

The newspaper added that the CPS said the warrant listed nine offences and stated that "between 2004 and 2005, the defendant conspired with others (named as Tuncel Tahir Soycan and Akan Kursat Talat) to develop land which did not belong to them, and to sell villas built without permission upon that land by means of false representations to the prospective purchasers".

The arrest warrant states that "between 2004 and 2005, the defendant conspired with others (named as Tuncel Tahir Soycan and Akan Kursat Talat) to develop land which did not belong to them, and to sell villas built without permission upon that land by means of false representations to the prospective purchasers.

In addition to the ancient Kumano road in a mountainous area with famous shrines that straddle Wakayama and Mie prefectures, the book newly designates the Shiretoko national park, Lake Mashu and Lake Akan, all in Hokkaido, as three-star sightseeing spots.

Akan and Ashanti tribes use decorations for cultural and religious purposes without considering them "art objects.

Local residents, university students and leading names including Rutkay Aziz, Edip Akbayram, Suavi, Mehmet Guleryuz, Onur Akin, Tarik Akan, Menderes Samancilar and Ilhan Cihaner have protested demolition of the Humanity Monument by sculptor Mehmet Aksoy in the eastern province of Kars.

The goldweights are miniature brass sculptures, rarely more than two or three inches in size, first made over 600 years ago by the Akan people (of modern-day Ghana and the Ivory Coast) as counterbalances for gold dust, their local currency.

Aside from a shared hatred of slavery and inequity, these particular men had Akan day-names in common.

After Okura, Banks, and other ethnic-minority performers stage a concert in the city of Eniwa in southern Hokkaido on Sunday, the international group of riders and performers will visit Asahikawa, Lake Akan, Kushiro, Obihiro and Sapporo for concerts and meetings.