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Paperback The Akan Diaspora in the Americas Book

ISBN: 0199922853

ISBN13: 9780199922857

The Akan Diaspora in the Americas

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In his groundbreaking study of the Akan diaspora, Kwasi Konadu demonstrates how this cultural group originating in West Africa both engaged in and went beyond the familiar diasporic themes of maroonage, resistance, and freedom. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Akan never formed a majority among other Africans in the Americas. But their leadership skills in war and political organization, efficacy in medicinal plant use and spiritual...

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