Historian Kwaku Darko Ankrah explains the meanings of some Akan names | Upside Down

Ghanaian historian Kwaku Darko Ankrah joins Frema Adunyame and Nana Tuffuor Boateng to explain the meanings of some Ghanaian names.
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[@bookreviewshub9126]

Glad to see my friend, Kweku Darko Ankrah impacting knowledge for public discourse

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@hudsonforbes6727]

The name Kwaku is very famous in Jamaican history he was a warrior who fought the enslavers ,there is also a well known saying coined after him.................... "can't ketch Kwaku yu ketch him shirt" ...........i always thought kwaku was a made up jamaican name now i know better.

[@BernardAsare-bh9gp]

Perhaps you should read about Kwaku Anansi or simply Anansi stories to know more about Kwakus.

[@BernardAsare-bh9gp]

Be remindful that Kwaku means a man born on a Wednesday with its associated horoscope in the Akan Culture

[@kofiopoku-acheampong671]

They didn’t teach us this in school lol. We ve protect to our history. I thought kofi was just a Friday born, but now I’m proud of my name because I learn that I’m from the Mars. Kofi Otsin. Thanks

[@YawAsafo]

Never heard the names explained in such an ancient way. They'll tell you what day of the week you are, mostly, but not in such historical detail, usually.

[@paulinaowiredu6932]

Really cool, thanks so much for sharing and thanks so much for Traditional clothing and jewelry. God bless you all.

[@AWOFOFORMBARadioTV379]

Great job. Very interesting.

[@williamsam1690]

A good historian ! Well done ! I didn’t hear the other appellation of Kweku in Fante-Abeku

[@KingsleyOfosuTwumEmergeMedia]

Nice to see my Facebook friend Kwaku Darko

[@samuelblay9616]

Yur trying but plz , with all due Respect, Speak yur own Language If It comes tò ur country History, Why hav we Always welcome Foreign cultures God's idears Mentalità food, Thats Why the Enemy knows Our True History monlre than US

[@ericabass9950]

I like this man

[@brettwilliams6749]

Greeting to u all my Queen & the one dress like u , && to Kwaku, am Brett here in the caribbean island of St Kitts & Nevis 🇰🇳🇰🇳🙏🙏 I was born on a Wednesday so my name is Kwaku too, my question to ur guest Kwaku, is there a God that was a sign to me before I was born & if so how do I address him please bayette 🇰🇳🇰🇳🙏🙏.

[@johndecribb8057]

Great chap, great compilation...I have a few doubts about the connection he was making with the planets...the reference to the planets seem quite anachronistic to the development of our ghanaian culture. But on the whole, kudos to the effort that has been put to it

[@evansasamoah7675]

Facts 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@bobbyyanks2223]

The Bantus originated from Cameroun.One can say the Bantu stripe from Cameroun ,Congo,and as part of Swahili,bantu stripe through Malawi,Zimbabwe and Xhosa in South Africa.So yes South Africans share language with Akans. So Ghanains in South Africans are sometimes surprised when words in South Africa sound and mean the same as in Akan And also Akan is very close to Yoruba and Igbo.The early researchers have documented these knowledge.Try and learn these languages

[@angelaofosuahamoafo3680]

Akans are more closer to the Igbo than Yoruba

[@africantruth2539]

Bobby Yanks that sounds interesting with the similarities with South Africa. It also makes sense since Akan and bantu languages belongs to Niger-Congo class of language.

[@zanekhayantu7332]

In Xhosa, a Southern African BaNtu Dialect... "Fema" meaning wealth, also in Xhosa, "ukuFuma", to be damp... "Nyame", meaning God, in Xhosa, "Nyameko" means Care/Goodness, but using BaNtu Linguism, you may say that It's "Nyame-Ko", "Ko/Kho" meaning Presence... So, Nyameko may well be "God's Presence"...

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@missbabyloved7531]

*Frema

[@NanaKNOwusu]

Minkelo, this is enlightening. Are the Xhosa a splinter group from the Akans?

[@zanekhayantu7332]

@@NanaKNOwusu Not really... We're all One, just soread to different parts of The World...

[@ataaakweteyaryee9499]

@@NanaKNOwusu. Remember. Along the line we're one people.

[@BILLIONAIREGH]

Akan #BILLIONAIREGH

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@monicajemmott9695]

As a child i remembered there was a celebration of Ghana day, in Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demerara. The country was under the British then. The East Indians in the district did celebrate with us too.

[@fiifibismarkgyasi6346]

FRIDAY is true

[@yawsamy]

awsome information...amazing about how names connected to the planetary system.....we need to go back to the roots...

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@akwabanthebe5836]

That elaborate story is a big lie so well crafted and knitted together to deceive. Where did he learn the Akan planetary systems . Anyway he has done well by concocting such a great deception.

[@yawsamy]

@@akwabanthebe5836 - it is not a lie. U need to educate yourself. The Akan has strong connection w/ ancient Egypt. Go and study and u realize what the ancient Egypt do..u can just say it is lie when u don’t even know your ancestral roots

[@akwabanthebe5836]

@@yawsamy noo, I'm not ignorant of my roots, I'm solid in matters of Akan linguistics. He was doing well with the narratives of the history until he started explaining personal names. He was so smooth though, yet not a single name he explained was right. If he takes a sober reflection he will agree with me that his premises are not solid. Personally if you want to understand a name like Oti Boaten which is a royal name, you have to contextualise it along ancient kingships on the Akans migration channenels. From Israel through Egypt looking for a Head (Oti)which brings you to the the Egyptian Sphinx, the Stone Head (Oti bo) fortunately right there the Egyptians had the sun God ATEN and the image of the Sun Disc (Ankra- aten).So the Sphinx provides the Akan name Oti Bo and the sun God gives you aten thus ( Oti- bo- aten). Immediately the name becomes an Egyptian pharaonic name, specifically relating to the pharaoh Akhn-aten(.Ankraten in Akan - the round disc) This should give a smart researcher leads that ,the royalty of the Oti- Boaten , Oti- Akenten, Akuamoah- Boaten relates to the Pharaohs of Egypt. Linguistically, the Akans called the shrimps with long bitting hands as "akenten" relate it to the long stretched hands (rays) that surrounds the symbol of the Sun Disc ( aten) and you will realise the Akans and the Egyptians are speaking the same language. Meanwhile the Akans called the sun wia* meaning to crawl* while aten* also mean same. This confirms the Egyptian believe that the sun crawl from East to west every day ( eten, ewia). By the name 'Oti- Bo- aten' the Akans are saying there is a connection between the creator of the Sphinx and the originator of the SUN WORSHIP in Egyptian. Explaining Akan names is a huge research work and must not be shoddily done as I heard him do for the cameras.

[@monicaafful8304]

Please what is the mean of the name Akowah Akowah?

[@shaddyydgr8t1]

How about akomea

[@danskey2001]

I think Araba is Tuesday

[@kwesikwaa]

and you ppl if you knor say you no get time for the speaker dont bring them on🙄

[@isaacokyereasamoah]

I love this show

[@samuelblay9616]

Guud programms but Speak some of our Common Tongue and advice Our peoples tò stop using Western names Kakuchi Kwamechi kojochi Kwawchi,Kofichi,kwoasichi,kabenlachi ,or kabi- Kakula.........

[@isaacokyereasamoah]

@@samuelblay9616 meaning

[@ubcliftons9864]

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[@giftyford2332]

What's the meaning of my name Tuabea

[@zanekhayantu7332]

"kwesi" which means Sun, to The Xhosa, "Khwezi" is The Morning Star...

[@akwabanthebe5836]

The name is not "kwesi" it is Kwasi and the full name is Kwasi Bodua making etymological meaning as' kwa- si- brodua ' meaning " one who pounds with pounding stick".

[@NanaKNOwusu]

@@akwabanthebe5836 Kwasi and Kwesi are the same. Fantis spell it Kwesi. They are both pronounced Kwesi.

[@akwabanthebe5836]

@@NanaKNOwusu the Fanti dialects changes original words into slangs . Yes ,the Two are the same though , but if you want originality you don't chose Fanti variations.

[@stephenboateng9360]

Ntu please i need your contact cos we need to clarify something here. I hope you are a South African

[@Rio-uv1gs]

I'm looking for a family called Emet Asamoah or it could be Asamboh. ( Are any of those Ghanaian last names? ...

[@jsok6390]

YES ASAMOAH IS A GHANAIAN AKAN NAME

[@nanaadu732]

What is the meaning of the name 1. Pinamang 2. Aduboffour

[@akwabanthebe5836]

Nana I want to give the two names a try, though they sound sweet but their meanings may not be that enthusiastic. 1. Pinamang unfortunately is not the original name , it should rather be PIRAMAN and it simply means an ETHIOPIAN ( a black man). Other variations are a. Otopiri b.Topiraman.( a town in Akyem). 2. Adubofour- Is the same name as Boadu and refers to an ancient architecture of massive dimensions. An architect of such edifice.

[@gordenbaah6468]

Blackman will never compiled them into books for the next generations to read and understand to motivate them He will talk and talk and later u won't see him again Some other race could wish to get to make it bigger

[@abotsia]

Didn't you hear him say he traveled for 10years to learn all these and is compiling them into a book?

[@edenrose6718]

Agotime have Ghana side and togo side but live together there

[@ahiavorrichard4753]

peoudo psychology

[@kwesikwaa]

like for real citi for take Frema off interviews..shes always jumping the gun and cutting the flow🙄🙄. ahh

[@maxwellampiaw-kwening8513]

Please Araba is Aba Yaa Arabia is Thursday not Wednesday

[@chibulOSMOKE]

Araba is a Tuesday born female in Fante. Aba and Baaba are Thursday born females in Fante

[@daniellaapoh1325]

Am Aba a fante born in Thursday and my sister is Araba born on Tuesday

[@akwasiowusu7460]

How did we get colonized if we were organized

[@oseitututawiah2109]

You get colonized by power, not because you are not organized.

[@TWUMKWAME5]

Why did the Americans get colonized by the British?

[@malcolmlyndsell5009]

what did africa invent? oh yea the tooth pick

[@AlinAlin-lr3qc]

Hmmmm lose nation what happened to our language

[@akwabanthebe5836]

Smooth speech but lacks truth, the meanings are too deep than these people know. FREMA means SCHOLARLY, (fre- ma)"clay mud" source of ancient cuneiform writing, coming from ancient Egypt. Boateng is "bo- aten" creator of the Egyptian god Aten( the sun god- Amoaten, Amoawia) Wiafe- Akenten ( Awia fi akenten) the sun rises by casting its beams across the horizon. Exercising power and authority over the land. Akenten ( ankh ne aten) Akhenaten. Oti Boaten - the Sphinx head creator of Aten. Never listens to anyone explaining Akan names without connecting to Egypt.

[@greygodkae_]

Solid bro

[@bobbyyanks2223]

Stop that Semitic crap.Why should we be specifically native to Egypt and Israel.Humans ,at one point or other in time,as cause of inferiority complexes,ascribe their efforts and being to beholding organisations ,structures and STATES.Remember Egypt was powerful for over 4,000 years so its no wonder some or lot of words are similarly used across the cultural delineation.The 'Apiru or Hapiru or Hebrews' and their CORE ARAB cousins (people who lived in Palestine,Lebanon ,Gaza)like every "battered" societies underwent a period of inferiority which made them almagamate "pagan" belief systems of the Egyptians and the various empires of MESOPOTAMIA. It's no wonder ABRAHAM or IBRAHIM was made to originate from the city of Ur a famous city of one of their colonial masters.Remember these Mesopotamian powers battered the Hebrews for about 6000 years. So JUDAISM and by extention CHRISTIANITY are just a muddle of "colonial "belief systems of the EGYPTIAN and MESOPOTAMIAN colonisers of the Hebrews. So black Africans in their efforts to 'feel great ' resort to a known path of attaching oneselves to a perceived past greatness go the (EGYPTIAN) or ISRAELI way which is in itself fake and born out of inferiority. The Rastafarians make the same error. The Germans in their awakening made same error by ARIANISING their past

[@akwabanthebe5836]

@@bobbyyanks2223 is Bobby telling Jamaicans they never came from Africa? Or Gas , they didn't come from Nigeria? You don't seem to be a fan of history so why enter there? I know as an Akan that, "A land in the middle of waters or a river is called "Nsuposo" and a landmass between Two River is called "ENSUPOTAM" then, the Greeks are credited with "MESOPOTAMIA" to mean land between Two River. Meanwhile you know as an Akan that : ENSU means -water PO means - landmass TAMU - territory/area It would be a little foolish not to become curious to know why there were towns in Israel with names like Kina, Anim, Abarim, Tete, Abelmaim, Misrefomaim, Sansanna, Mahanedan, Teman, Obo , Kumidi , Odomera , etc.which are all Akan words with meanings. Even when you see that Esau has the same meaning as Esaw. When Asere ( laughter) as Isaac Aba Kain (1st born)as Cain Ayewa (earthenware) as Hawa Adamua ( earth hole) as Adam/Adama. Bobby, I'm not doing this for you, but for those who love the history of Africa's great peoples.

[@bobbyyanks2223]

@@akwabanthebe5836 You could end up being a Chinese,going by your exposition.Learn a lot of languages and you could find out such "phonetic coincidences ' do happen. The issue is that Egypt was very powerful so it was almost likely that words may be close in sound and even by contrivance one can deduce similar meanings .Now for example you do the overkill of finding some similarities between Akan words and MESOPOTAMIA.

[@akwabanthebe5836]

@@bobbyyanks2223 No Bobby, it is not an overkill. If you understand the dynamics of ancient conquests, governance, civilizations and migrations you would understand that, these similarities didn't happen per chance. There are linkages which some of us are trying to establish. Unknown to some of you, the ancient Egypt, which I know the Akans were the Pharaohs and developed its civilizations, is a trillion dollar industry paying million of dollars into the Egyptian and the European economies whilst the original owners dwell in poverty. My pain is that, Egyptologists have lied a lot to the world yet people believe in them . They have manufactured false names from the hieroglyphics for the Pharaohs, the sculptures,the lands and almost everything. In so doing they have removed the Egyptian civilizations from Africans and given it to the Greeks and made them look strange to us Africans. This is the reason why Africans have accepted the inferiority tag and behaves like people who have no history and therefore no future. Bobby, I have researched too much and have so much information that am not ready to entertain any assumption theories. I'm ready and prepared to tear down the entire Egyptian history and get it rewritten, from the African perspective. Those who believe in this vision must come on board. There are many American and European books even Russian explaining hieroglyphics, why is there none ,coming from Africa where it originated.

[@akwasiowusu7460]

Stop praizing these organizations that could'nt even Write. And lived in primitive sociëteis

[@linyfp8588]

This is a disgrace to Ghana!!!!!! What prevented you pple from speaking any of the nice languages of Ghana???

[@larrylopez7559]

What prevented you?!

[@nestacyriano]

For meanings of days of the week and names please contact the Ewes for the truth. This man is talking rubbish 😂

[@iddrissmohammed980]

Shame on you for not explaining in the local dialet brofo nsem NKOAAAAAAAA

[@yingyang9482]

What is Ghana's official language?

[@iddrissmohammed980]

@@yingyang9482 how many ghanians understand your so called official language ?

[@VoguishMis]

@@iddrissmohammed980 how many Ghanaians would understand whichever language he chooses to speak? English is universal. It is more widely spoken than any Ghanaian language.

[@nanakumasitv16265]

Masa this show is pointless, you guys are talking about culture and our history but you're speaking English ?!!