Akan diaspora in the Americas

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Konadu,Kwasi (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    New York: Oxford University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, History, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Americas, Ethnic relations, African diaspora, Africa, West, and Akan (African people)
    Notes:
    307 p, 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 idenitity

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