Mfantsefo or Fante ("Fanti" is an older spelling) confederacy is a combination of Akan people and aboriginal Guan people. The Fante people are mainly located...
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Ivory Coast, as well as in Liberia, Gambia and Angola. Fante is the common dialect of the Fante people, whose communities each have their own subdialects...
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The Fante Confederacy refers either to the alliance of the Fante states in existence at least since the sixteenth century, or it can also refer to the...
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Mankessim Kingdom (section The Fante confederacy)
modern-day Ghana. It is regarded as the heartland of the Fante people, and operated as capital of the Fante Confederacy in the 19th century. The town of Mankessim...
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The Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807) was a war fought between the Ashanti Empire and the Fante Confederacy in the region of what is currently the Republic...
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Twi (category Ashanti people)
'Akan' that is not used by the Fante people. It is not a linguistic grouping, as Akuapem Twi is more closely related to Fante dialect than it is to Asante...
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Fante may refer to: Fante people, an Akan people from central southern coast of West Africa Fante dialect, a Niger-Congo language Fante Confederacy, either...
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The Asafo flags are regimental flags of the Fante people, an ethnic group that mainly resides in Ghana's central coastal region. The flags are influenced...
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James Bannerman (category Fante people)
James Bannerman (12 March 1790 – 18 March 1858) was a lieutenant and acting governor of the Gold Coast (part of modern Ghana) from 4 December 1850 to 14...
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John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical...
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Kurt Okraku (category Fante people)
Kurt Edwin Simon Okraku (born June 1, 1971) is a Ghanaian football administrator who has served as the President of the Ghana Football Association since...
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family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Ashanti, Baoulé, Bono, Chakosi, Fante, Kwahu, Sefwi, Wassa, Ahanta...
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sauce with fish. Akple is preferred by the people of the southern regions of Ghana—the Ewe people, the Fante people and the Ga-Dangme—but it is also eaten...
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Rulers and Signatories of the Fante Confederation (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Akan people Ghana Gold Coast Lists of incumbents...
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The Ga–Fante War in 1811 was a war fought by the Ashanti Empire. The war was started when an Ashanti ally started a war against the Fante Confederacy,...
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Ottobah Cugoano (category Fante people)
British abolitionist and activist who was born in West Africa. Born into a Fante family in Ajumako, he was sold into slavery at the age of thirteen and shipped...
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Michael Essien (category Fante people)
just as he got a better knowledge of the teaching and development of young people off the field in FCN, as inspiration for his ongoing coaching education...
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Paul Acquah (category Fante people)
Paul Amoako Acquah is a Ghanaian economist and a former Deputy Director for the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund from 1998 to 2001...
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Akosua (section Notable people with the name)
the Ashanti people, it is actually practised by all Akan (i.e Ashanti, Akuapem, Akyem, Fante) people who follow traditional customs. People born on particular...
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Nana Aba Anamoah (category Fante people)
Nana Aba Anamoah (birth name: Rosemond Nana Aba McEwan-Anamoah, born on June 19, 1980) is a Ghanaian media personality. Until her resignation from TV3...
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Alan John Kyerematen (category Fante people)
attitudinal change in the people of Ghana Coming from a mixed Akan ancestry of the Asante and Fante ethnic subgroups, he speaks Twi and Fante fluently. In addition...
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Kofi Annan (category Fante people)
were born into one of the country's Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and their uncle were Fante paramount chiefs, and their brother...
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Ebo Taylor (category Fante people)
showed that at 77 years old, Taylor remained creative, mixing traditional Fante songs and chants with children's rhymes and personal stories into his own...
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with European colonial powers on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), the Fante, who inhabit the coastal region, developed an especially complex version...
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modern-day Ghana, by the Asante, the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Bono, and the Fante people of the Akan ethnic group of Ghana and now generally accepted across the...
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Elsie Effah Kaufmann (category Fante people)
Elsie Akosua Biraa Effah Kaufmann FGA, FBSE, FGhIE, PE (born 7 September 1969) is a Ghanaian academic, academic administrator, biomedical engineer, and...
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Prempeh I (category People from Kumasi)
Britain annexed the territories of the Ashanti and the Fante people, despite the British and Fante being allies during this time. Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh...
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Mankessim (section Notable people)
the Fante ethnic group of Ghana. Mankessim's history is linked to three famed warriors: Obrumankoma, Odapagyan and Oson, who helped the Fante people migrate...
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Sam E. Jonah (category Fante people)
strategic leadership of the company with its CEO, Bobby Godsell. Sam Jonah is a Fante Royal but born in Obuasi and had his high-school education at Adisadel College...
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Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng (category Fante people)
motivation therefore was to become a heart surgeon, so he could help heal people with heart related conditions. After finishing his post-graduate studies...
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