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      The life and history of Ɔkᴐmfo Anokye, c.1635–1720

      Wayward, haughty with spotted skin and disheveled hair

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      The life and history of Ɔkᴐmfo Anokye, c.1635–1720
      ByRobert Hanserd
      BookIdentity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 30
      eBook ISBN 9781315102344
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter uses history, memory and interdisciplinary evidence to investigate ?k?mfo Anokye, local spirit practice and cognitions of freedom. Gold Coast regional cultures defined spirit, earth and the cosmos. Local priests professed interpretations of unknowable spiritual realms and propagated real world support or opposition of polities and royals. Akwantu, akoma and odehye opontumi elucidate some aspects of idealized and real priestly practice. They reflected the practitioner’s exegesis of spirit knowledge that was “authoritative and absolute” but also “individualized, accommodative and adaptive.” Cultural transfer whereby West and West Central African social practice and belief were remade in American environs like Jamaica and New York constitute a key feature of Black Atlantic and diaspora history. That Akan, Guan, Ga and Ewe spirituality and worldview coalesced in Akanized Anansi tales, naming, oath making and priestly practice in West Africa attested to the validity of Atlantic cultural transfer. Gold Coast regional spiritualists were real historic actors in pre-colonial Afro-Atlantic worlds.

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