Akan Deities and Their Day Names: Onyankopɔn Kwame, Asaase Yaa, Po Abenaa and Kofi Yesu
Among the Akan of Ghana, naming is never a casual act. Names locate a person in time, history, morality, and the spiritual universe. One of the most distinctive Akan naming practices is the giving of day names (kradin), assigned according to the day of the week on which a child is born. These names are…
