Perception

Akan perceptions of God can be discerned from the rich array of names and appellations used to describe the Supreme Deity. Among the Akan, the name for God is Nyankopɔn (Onyankopɔn), the Supreme Being. Etymologically, the term is often explained as deriving from “Onyame koro a ɔyɛ pɔn,” meaning “the one God who is supreme…