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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Firewall: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by PreColonialAfrica13: [qb] Yeah, should've mentioned that. By akan writing do you mean the symbols they put on their cloth patterns? I considered that too but wasn't sure what it meant. [/qb][/QUOTE]I believe most or all those civilizations in southern west africa had writing one way or the other from either the islamic states north and the west trading with them like portugal etc.. and some had native writing. _______________________________________ Here something about the akan. I got this from the other website. The Ashanti Surprises in Kumasi, the Ashanti capital Sir Garnet Wolseley commanded the British forces in their Third Ashanti War in west Africa, 1873-1874. After winning several victories over the Ashanti Wolseley and his army occupied their capital of Kumasi; finding it abandoned, they explored it for a little while and then burned it. They made two discoveries of note - one macabre and one fascinating. Supposedly there was extensive evidence of human sacrifice. How important was this tradition in Ashanti culture, how and why was it done? I have not come across many references to human sacrifice in African history. Secondly, the British supposedly found 'rows of books' in a multitude of languages. How did the Ashanti come to own this library, and what were some of these languages? To what extent were the Ashanti people literate? Had they commited their own tongue to writing? _______________ Quote: Because of the long history of mutual interaction between Ashanti and European powers, the Ashanti have the greatest amount of historiography in sub-Saharan Africa. The British touted the Ashanti as one of the more civilized African peoples, cataloguing their religious, familial, and legal systems in works like R.S. Rattray's Ashanti Law and Constitution. Quote: Ashanti was one of the few African states able to offer serious resistance to European colonizers http://www.historum.com/middle-eastern-african-history/42038-surprises-kumasi-ashanti-capital.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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