ABSTRACT
The reader unaccustomed to Akan ideas has seen trooping before his eyes a list of concepts which, being mostly peculiar to the Akan, have had to be expressed in the vernacular. Among the former are certain irreducible fundamental postulates upon the recognition of which the reader may come to classify the Akan-Ashanti of the Gold Coast as possessing a distinctive theory of life and being. The Moslems live in the Akan country mostly as servants or workmen and as pedlars of dubious charms and talismans and fortune tellers. These postulates, which are also the working tools of the Akan practice of morals and religion, are all the more valuable because whilst they may be considered exclusive to, and distinctive of, Akan thought and as original with the race, they yield on several points to san accommodation with other ideas in some other racial philosophies, and are readily reducible to terms already established in the accepted body of human knowledge.
