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Akan

[ ah-kahn ]

noun

plural Akans, (especially collectively) Akan
  1. a language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in much of Ghana and parts of the Ivory Coast.
  2. a member of any of various Akan-speaking peoples, including the Ashanti and Fanti.


Akan

/ ˈɑːɑː /

noun

  1. -kan-kans a member of a people of Ghana and the E Côte d'Ivoire
  2. the language of this people, having two chief dialects, Fanti and Twi, and belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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But some matrilocal communities exist today or in the recent past, including the Akans in Ghana, West Africa and Cherokee in North America.

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A video shared by local media showed MPs in the dimly lit chamber chanting: "Dumsor, dumsor", which means power outage in the local Akan language.

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“The world has discovered that there’s a new way to approach music … that hits you, gives you a new emotion, gives you new feelings, gives you a new experience,” says Akan of Afrobeats Intelligence.

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The cardinal referred to the fact that in one of Ghana's languages, Akan, there is an expression "men who act like women and women who act like men".

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Ghana has for several years been experiencing power shortages popularly known as "dumsor", which means on and off in the Akan language.

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