1978/01/01 by Philip F. W. Bartle · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research #Paragraph #Geography #Guan #State (computer science) #Ethnology #History #Ancient history #Archaeology #Political science #Humanities #Art #Law
paper · doi:10.2307/1158712
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Opening Paragraph Several attempts have been made to understand the development if not the origin of Akan culture in terms of the diffusion of (a) traits from the north which were taken south with the expansion and disintegration of the great savanna trading empires and the southward migration of Mande Dyula merchants and (b) traits which were already present prior to that migration in a large area once populated mainly by Guan in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Togo, and today populated for the most part by Akan, Adanbe, and Ewe. The mixing of these cultural traits and the point of origin for the Akan expansion appear, to have taken place along a trade route stretching from the Sahara to the Atlantic coast, close to the site of Begho near Wenchi in the Bono Techiman state (Boahen 1966; Goody 1959, 1966, 1968; Wilks 1962).