| 单词 | Akan |
| 例句 | On the last day of his stay, Mr. Edmonds was initiated into the Akan religion. John Edmonds and the Allure of Africa 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z This practice is often linked to "Sankofa," an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana that roughly translates to "it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind." "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z I think about the meaning of Sankofa, a word from the Akan tribe in Ghana that means to understand one’s past in order to move forward. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Terra-cotta sculpture also flourished among the Akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast in the 17th and 18th centuries, but sometimes in semiabstract form. Art Review: ?Heroic Africans? at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-09-22T22:00:39Z Ghana has for several years been experiencing power shortages popularly known as "dumsor", which means on and off in the Akan language. Ghana power crisis: Limited gas supply triggers nationwide power outage 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Large marimo are now thought to be exclusively found in Lake Akan, and as seen from the data, even there they have become threatened. Unique marimo threatened by rising lake temperatures 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The mines at Akan also relied on enslaved workers, whom the Portuguese bought from Benin and then sold to Mande-speaking Dyula traders. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z “Since you were born on a Tuesday, I’m sure you would not mind the Ghanaian name Abena, the Akan name for all Tuesday born females, to your name,” he said. Harris finds new connections in Africa as historic figure 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Drawing inspiration from Ghana's rich arts and culture, the cathedral will have a high pitched staggered roof imitating the architecture of the Akan people. Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo's cathedral plan stalls amid economic crisis 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z In English, Akan and Russian with some subtitles. Review | ‘Queen of Glory’: A child of Ghanaian immigrants at sea in the Bronx 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z In recent decades, their global population has been decreasing and now the only place where balls of 20 cm and larger exist is Lake Akan in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. Unique marimo threatened by rising lake temperatures 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Located in present-day Ghana, Elmina was a fortified trading post from which the Portuguese traded copper, brass, and cloth with Africans for Akan gold. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z His interest in combining language and pictograms was enhanced when he learned, in the early 1970s, about Akan gold weights, a pre-colonial system of cast bronze and copper objects used for weighing gold dust. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z That’s when the jingles from the ice cream trucks — Mr. Softee, Akan’s Soft Ice Cream, Mister Creamy — became the soundtrack for Dervish’s funeral. An ice cream man died of cancer. A funeral procession of ice cream trucks honored ‘the king’ 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z That’s important, because the book’s title refers to a bird that, according to myths of the Ghanaian Akan tribe, walks forward with its head turned backward, toward its origins. Review: A dictator's daughter comes home in Chibundu Onuzo's 'Sankofa' 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z For the Akan people of Ghana, “sankofa” means not only to retrieve, but also to do so in the spirit of taking something good from the past to better the future. A long-lost photo changes a woman’s understanding of her family in Chibundu Onuzo’s ‘Sankofa’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The most popular is Adjoba - or “Born on Tuesday” in the Akan language of the southeast - a two-year-old girl with plump features. Ivory Coast company brings Black dolls to African children 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Combining geometric patterns with stylized representations of animals and humans, the weights allude to Akan proverbs. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Particularly fascinated with the dress of the Akan peoples of Ghana, he was co-editor of “Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture from 2002-2012.” Former Fowler Museum director and Ghanaian arts scholar Doran Ross dies 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The protest’s logo was a Sankofa bird, a symbol from the Akan people of West Africa, a reminder to look to the past while moving forward. Inspired by the 1963 Birmingham Children’s Crusade, Seattle Children’s March draws on rich history of youth protest 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z In contrast, Mr Kambon is fluent in two West African languages - Akan and Yoruba - and is proficient in a third, Wolof. Moving to Ghana 'to escape racism' 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z My Akan ancestors left Sudan around the 10th century — possibly fleeing forced conversion to Islam — and moved into the forest. Opinion | Slow-Cooking History 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Bouabré delighted in the way they distilled complex oral traditions and, in 1989-1990, made his own series of 42 drawings based on Akan gold weights. Review | MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The twins' first names meant "born on a Friday" in Akan, while their shared middle name means "twin". Obituary: Kofi Annan 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z And its staggered, high-pitched roofs are a welcome nod to traditional Akan architecture. Opinion | Ghana Deserves This Cathedral. Don’t Fight It. 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Among some Ghanaian ethnic groups like the Akan, Ga, Ewe and Nzema, a name is automatically assigned based on the day the child is born. Africa's naming traditions: Nine ways to name your child - BBC News 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Reigners Bible Church International was under construction in the southern city of Uyo when it hosted hundreds of people for the consecration of founder Akan Weeks as a bishop on Dec. 10. Many structural faults in collapsed Nigerian church: Expert 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Hundreds were inside Reigners Bible Church International in the city of Uyo on Saturday for the episcopal ordination of founder Akan Weeks when the metal girders fell and the corrugated iron roof caved in. Climbing death toll of Nigerian church collapse reaches 160 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The Reigners Bible Church International was still under construction and workers had been rushing to finish it in time for Saturday’s ceremony to ordain founder Akan Weeks as a bishop, congregants said. At Least 160 Dead in Nigeria Church Collapse: 'We Saw Others Dying All Around Us' 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The Reigners Bible Church International was still under construction and workers had been rushing to finish it in time for Saturday's ceremony to ordain founder Akan Weeks as a bishop, congregants said. Hospital Director: 160 Dead in Collapsed Nigerian Church 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Akan starred in over 100 films and directed documentaries and television series in a career spanning more than four decades. Famed Turkish actor Tarik Akan dies after cancer battle 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He stays on the perpetual run throughout the film, in one near-continuous shot, to discover his human origins and thwart the plans of a telekinetic lunatic named Akan and his armed minions. Blu-ray review: ‘Hardcore Henry’ 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Both of them are West Africans, members of the Akan people, although she is Asante, from the interior of what we now call Ghana, and he is Fante, from the coast. A Sprawling Epic of Africa and America 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The bird, which means “turn around and get it,” is an Adinkra symbol from the Akan people of Ghana, placed on the sign at the request of Moore’s mother Mafori. Former Beaufort slave’s descendants mark historic cemetery 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z He has also participated in ceremonies held by the local Akan community, an ethnic group native to Ghana and Ivory Coast. Feared Traditional Priest From Ghana Spends a Year in the Bronx 2013-07-19T23:15:42Z Individual language Wikipedias range in size from four million articles for English down to Fijian, Chamorro, Akan, Xhosa and others with fewer than 150. Wikipedia: Meet the men and women who write the articles 2012-07-14T23:14:50Z Indeed, in the early 20th century it would not have been possible for them to have been literate in Fante, the particular Akan dialect spoken here. Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa [Excerpt] 2012-06-29T13:15:00.210Z “I was born in the Father of Apples,” the guest, Akan Rakhmetullin, a representative for Kazakhstan’s mission to the United Nations, told the students. City Room: For the Big Apple, an Ancient Gift 2011-12-07T23:51:46Z Akim is considered the finest and purest of all the Akan dialects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The director, Akan Satayev, is shooting the penultimate scene of his war epic in a dusty bowl surrounded by rocky hills, a river, and a fiberglass fortress where the bad guys, the Dzhungars, live. After Borat, Kazakhstan’s Cinema Dreams 2011-07-01T01:00:08Z But 80-odd pages later, with no further evidence, they become “Akan warriors,” and on the following page, leaders of an entire “detachment of Akan warriors.” Violence and Retribution 2011-02-06T03:50:04Z An Akan proverb rightly puts it that,"if one does not disclose his/her illness, the appropriate cure will equally not be found." Picture of health 2010-12-14T13:59:25Z Nana, the title all Akan chiefs bear, means a grandparent and Togbe the title an Ewe chief carries, means a grandfather. Mommie? Poppie? 2010-03-10T09:15:00Z A brief introduction to the principles of the native laws and customs of the Fanti and Akan districts of the Gold Coast with a report of some cases thereon decided in the law courts. Introduction to the Science of Sociology For instance, he suggests — reasonably enough — that Kook and Quamana’s names indicate the men may have been Akan, “children of a warlike African empire at the height of its glory.” Violence and Retribution 2011-02-06T03:50:04Z |
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