The Akan diaspora in the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Konadu, Kwasi
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Akan (African people) > America > History. Akan (African people) > Migrations. America > Ethnic relations. African diaspora. Akan (African people) > Social conditions. Akan (African people) > Social life and customs. Africa, West > Social life and customs.

Table of Contents:

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.