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The Akan are an ethnic group from western Africa. This group includes the Ashanti, the Fante and the Nzema peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

Some of their most important mythological stories are called Anansasem ("spider stories" also Nyankomsem "words of a sky god"). These stories generally, but not always, revolve around Kwaku Ananse, a trickster-spider spirit.

The highest god is Brekyirihunuade ("he who knows and sees everything"). ***

See "Studies Among the Akan People of West Africa" for a wealth of information about the Akan culture and society.

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01 December, 1996

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African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
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01 March, 1997

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West African Religious Traditions: Focus on the Akan of Ghana (Faith Meets Faith Series)
by: Robert B. Fisher
01 April, 1998

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Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection
by: Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Doran H. Ross, Frances Marzio
01 November, 2002

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African Cultural Values: An Introduction
by: Kwame Gyekye
01 February, 1996

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Cocoa and Kinship in Ghana: The Matrilineal Akan of Ghana
by: Christine Okali
01 March, 1984

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Spider and the Sky God: An Akan Legend (Legends of the World)
by: Deborah M. Newton Chocolate, Dave Albers
01 September, 1992

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Speaking for the Chief: Okyeame and the Politics of Akan Royal Oratory (African Systems of Thought)
by: Kwesi Yankah
01 June, 1995

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Hearing and Keeping: Akan Proverbs: Ghana
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