The list of Akan people includes notable individuals of

Akan Akan may refer to: People and languages *Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire *Akan language, a language spoken by the Akan people *Kwa languages, a language group which includes Akan * Central Tano languages, a language group ...

meta-ethnicity Meta-ethnicity is a relatively recent term (or neologism) occasionally used in academic literature or public discourse on ethnic studies. It describes a level of commonality that is wider ("meta-") and more general (i.e., might differ on specifics) ...

and ancestry; the Akan people who are also referred to as ( ak, Akanfo) are a meta-ethnicity and Potou–Tano Kwa

ethno-linguistic Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the nonlinguistic cultural behavior of the people who speak that language. __NOTOC__ Examples ...

group that are

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...

ly located on the

Ashantiland The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: ), today commonly called the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted between 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana. It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana as well as parts of Iv ...

peninsula near the equator precisely at the "centre of the Earth".

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An insight guide to Akanland’s culture and languageWo Aka Dictionaries
translation into Akan
"Akan Philosophy of the Person"
''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (2006) ISSN 1095-5054 {{DEFAULTSORT:Akan People Lists of people by ethnicity