Afro-Atlantic 002: Jamaica and the Akan

[Kasgoinjail]

Loving this thread

 

[Monsanto]

Beautiful thread.

 

[Neuromancer]

Subs.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Anansi is an African folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.

He is also known as Ananse, Kwaku Ananse, and Anancy; and in the southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but often acts and appears as a man.

The Anansi tales originated from the Ashanti people of present-day Ghana. The word Ananse is Akan and means "spider". They later spread to other Akangroups and then to the West Indies, Suriname, Sierra Leone (where they were introduced by Jamaican Maroons) and the Netherlands Antilles. On Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire, he is known as Nanzi, and his wife as Shi Maria.

I used to read these as a boy finna get this nikka tatted on me

Written in patois which I can bArely read tho

Jamaica Anansi Stories Index

Been hearing my mother call spiders "Anasi" my whole life. Literally just now putting this together .

 

[Yehuda]

Off-topic but I saw this and it reminded me of the mutual intelligibility between that Ghanaian and that Surinamese community mentioned in this thread.

 

[BigMan]

Off-topic but I saw this and it reminded me of the mutual intelligibility between that Ghanaian and that Surinamese community mentioned in this thread.

Papiamento comes from Portuguese Spanish Dutch and African creoles like CV Krioulu

 

[get these nets]

Sizzla Kalonji named Rastafari Chief of Development for repatriation to Ghana - IRIE FM

Entertainer Sizzla Kalonji has officially been declared Rastafari Chief of Development for repatriation to Ghana.

iriefm.net

Oct 7, 2024

 

[Ziploc]

Jamaican Patois known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin)[4] spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. The language developed in the 17th century, when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to, learned and nativized the vernacular and dialectal forms of English spoken by the slaveholders: British English, Scots and Hiberno-English. It exhibits a gradation between more conservative creole forms and forms virtually identical to Standard English....
......Significant Jamaican-speaking communities exist among Jamaican expatriates in Miami, New York City, Toronto, Hartford, Washington, D.C., Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (in the Caribbean coast), also London,[8] Birmingham, Manchester, and Nottingham.

Loanwords:

Jamaican Maroon Language / Kromanti




Must watch video on the Kromanti language of the Jamaican Maroons

If anyone knows any Ghanaian posters please @ them.

Also any Guyanese or Surinamese posters as those two places are have a high Alan influence in their culture, especially Suriname
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There are many similarities in the cromanti dialect. descendants of Maroons in Suriname can somewhat converse with the cromanti in Jamaica and the Ghanian descendants of Akan people. We as Surinamese share a common ancestry with Jamaican Maroons.I am Maroon on my father's side who's Ofa is Nigerian,my mother's Ofa (bere) is Ashanti by birth.