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The Akan diaspora in the Americas
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- Creator
- Kwasi Konadu
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195390643, 0195390644
- OCLC
- ocn403853802
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- On diaspora and the Akan in the Americas -- Quest for the river, creation of the path : Akan cultural development to the sixteenth century -- History and meaning in Akan societies, 1500-1800 -- "The most unruly" : the Akan in Danish and Dutch America -- The antelope (adowa) and the elephant (esono) : the Akan in the British Caribbean -- "All of the Coromantee country" : the Akan diaspora in North America -- Diaspora discourses : Akan spiritual praxis and the claims of cultural itendity