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- Akan_names abstract "The Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These \"day names\" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name. These names have spread throughout Ghana and Jamaica. This tradition is shared throughout West Africa due to Akan Influence, from Benin/Dahomey (Fon) and Togo (Ewe), to the Ga, to other West Africans and throughout the African diaspora. For example, in Jamaica the following day names have been recorded: Monday, Cudjoe; Tuesday, Quabenah; Wednesday, Quaco; Thursday, Quao; Friday, Cuffee; Saturday, Quamin; Sunday, Quashee. English translations of these names were used in the United States during the nineteenth century; Robinson Crusoe's Friday may be conceptually related. During the 18th-19th Century, slaves from modern day Ghana in the Caribbean were referred to as Coromantees. Many of the leaders of slave rebellions had \"day names\" including Cuffy or Kofi, Cudjoe or Kojo, and Quamina or Kwame/Kwamina.Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an English or Christian name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. In the official orthography of the Twi language, the Ashanti versions of these names as spoken in Kumasi are as follows. The diacritics on á a̍ à represent high, mid, and low tone (tone does not need to be marked on every vowel), while the diacritic on a̩ is used for vowel harmony and can be ignored. (Diacritics are frequently dropped in any case.) Variants of the names are used in other languages, or may represent different transliteration schemes. The variants mostly consist of different affixes (in Ashanti, kwa- or ko- for men and a- plus -a or -wa for women). For example, among the Fante, the prefixes are kwe- and e-, respectively. Akan d̩wo is pronounced something like English Joe, but there do appear to be two sets of names for those born on Tuesday.".
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Category:Akan_given_names.
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Coromantee.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Cudjoe.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Cuffy_(Guyanese_rebel).
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink File:Ashantis_(Ashanti_people).jpg.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "''Kodwe,'' Monday's child".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan day name".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan names#Day names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ashanti birthday names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Day Names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kwaku".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "the naming customs".
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- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Adam Afriyie bears the Ashanti special-delivery name "Afriyie" and Ashanti-family name "Afriyie".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Afua Benson bears the Ashanti given-day name "Afua".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Afua Hirsch bears the Ashanti given-day name "Afua".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Curtis Obeng bears the Ashanti-family name "Obeng".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Freema Agyeman bears the Ashanti-family name "Fremah" as given-name and Ashanti-family name "Agyeman".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Holly Quin-Ankrah bears the Ashanti-family name "Ankrah".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Jon Asamoah bears the Ashanti-family name and Ashanti given-day name "Asamoah".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Joyce Bamford-Addo bears the Ashanti-family name "Addo".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Kojo Baffoe bears the Ashanti given-day name "Kojo" and Ashanti-family name "Baffoe".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Kwame Anthony Appiah bears the Ashanti given-day name "Kwame" and Ashanti-family name "Appiah".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Kwesi Appiah bears the Ashanti given-day name "Kwasi" and Ashanti-family name "Appiah".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Memphis Depay bears the Ashanti-family name "Depay".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Omenaa Mensah bears the Ashanti-family name "Omenaa" as given-name and Ashanti-family name "Mensah".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Paul Cuffee bears the Ashanti-family name "Cuffee".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Prince Boateng bears the Ashanti-family name "Boateng".".
- Akan_names caption "Ashanti-Multiracial Vic Mensa bears the Ashanti-family name "Mensah".".
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- Akan_names image "Adam Afriyie on street.jpg".
- Akan_names image "Afua_Hirsch.jpg".
- Akan_names image "Appiah.jpg".
- Akan_names image "Bamford addo.jpg".
- Akan_names image "Curtis Obeng 16-02-2013 1.jpg".
- Akan_names image "Freema Agyeman 2012 .jpg".
- Akan_names image "Holly_Quin-Ankrah.jpg".