TRIBES OF GHANA | FANTE, EWE, GA, ASANTE ADINKRA, GYE NYAME, SANKOFA

[@Gigi-ni1cf]

I am visiting Ghana soon, this was a wonderfully informative video thank you ❤

[@aoppong6419]

Akan is a very complex society. Commenting on Akan culture from far away might lead to a dead end. 1. All Akans speak Twi! That’s their native language. So Fante, Bono, Asante, Akuapem, Nzima, Akyem etc etc all speaks Twi with different intonations. So Fante is not different from Twi but spoken with Fante intonation! Also not the difference between Akan and Asante. Akan is the whole and Asante is a piece within the whole. So the whole Akan is not Asante! You misrepresenting both. Adinkra is originally from the Bono group and was taken to Asante. Bono is the first Akan state where all the other Akan groups emigrated to form separate states. And don’t forget Asante is not a tribe but an Akan group. There are no tribes within Akan. The tribe is Akan! Akans live in groups! Asante is the largest group of the Akans, there you are right!

[@BlueIvory4]

Akan is a nationality actually. Ashanti is a tribe like Wassa

[@nicholasgwira9026]

This you should learn for yourself.

[@ericdickens6869]

Asante is a confederacy which covered six regions of Ghana and the Asantehene as the king

[@manueleyiah6272]

False. Name the regions

[@benita5912]

Loved this video, good job in all the research you did for this video. Keep going sis

[@britneyafrica]

Thank you ❤️ ❤️ truly appreciate the recognition. Stay tuned for more 🥳

[@chimakalu41]

6:21 There was a Ghanaian teacher among the teachers we had in primary school named Quashie. No I know hes ethnic group - Ga.

[@Unknown-te8fv]

I'm Ghanaian German and I'm an Asante. This year I will go to Ghana 🇬🇭 after 15 years

[@msshaponda112]

My Ancestry from 23 & me said that I was a likely match for Ewe, Fon, Ga-Dangme, and Fante peoples. Amazing!❤️

[@AuthorLHollingsworth]

One of the tribes that came up in my Ancestry is the Fante. As a Diaspora African we connect to multiple tribes due to forced slavery. Thank you for this information.

[@britneyafrica]

Thats amazing, I'm so happy you were able to uncover your ancestry, Diasporans may be a mixture of different ethnic groups, especially due to slavery as a ghanaian myself i can't say im 100 percent Asante - somehwere down the line i may be of another ghanaian ethnic group. So happy you found this helpful

[@mrhimselfalone7657]

Hey I wanted to know if Arkoh was a Fante name? I have a distant DNA match with a person with that last name.

[@averagecasual4801]

@@mrhimselfalone7657 Probably GA, they are different from fante.

[@mrhimselfalone7657]

@@averagecasual4801 oh okay cool.

[@gideonob]

@@averagecasual4801 you sure? All the people I know called “Arkoh” are Ashantis, it’s actually an Akan name, it’s more probable that it’s Fante or any of the Akans than Ga

[@nicholasgwira9026]

What does this help in building up Ghana?

[@adose_of_Tequila]

I really would like to know where my roots come from I’m African American I’ve visited Ghana love the country.

[@agapetheprodigalraqah]

Heyyy. Late viewer. But I’m a Ga and a Fante. Like in both sides of my family but idk I’m reconnecting with my Ghanaian culture and researching it myself since my parents picked and chose what to introduce me to. I can’t speak any of the languages but through context clues i can follow conversations in Ga and i can just mostly say Twi and Ga insults. That’s the extent of my linguistic expertise in Ghanaian languages. I was raised in a rural american suburbs so not many Ghanaians let alone black people lived where i grew up.

[@kadosoehumphrey2752]

Ie deh noh👋🏾I'm from suriname from the saamaka tribe our ancestors are from Ghana 🇬🇭 😀 so hii

[@kimberlyfr]

Great video Britney❤️

[@britneyafrica]

😊❤️

[@joye5761]

As a Nigerian 🇳🇬 with a Hausa/ Fulani mother, Hausas are ORIGINATED from Nigeria and are INDIGENOUS to Nigeria. They are the largest ethnic group in Nigeria, where their home is. You can find them in other parts of Africa where they migrated to, so I find it odd that you mention Hausa as a tribe when it’s NON INDIGENOUS to Ghana and they are less than 1% (0.01) living in Ghana.

[@peteryeboah9033]

You are very right, I believed that our Sister the blogger doesn't know that Hausa is not part of the Ghanaian tribes.

[@chimakalu41]

0:10 I am Nigerian but I will guess anyway I heard there about 80 Ethnic groups in Ghana as a whole

[@treesweson4234]

Faai go = hello in Okanisi marron from Suriname 🇸🇷 Your video is very informative 👏🏾😍 Thanks for sharing❤️⚖️🪶☀️

[@michaelgyan3626]

Akan and Guan good stuff but bit brief.

[@britneyafrica]

Thanks for the feedback will take it into consideration 👌🏾🤩

[@3stelleeee]

love the video 😻

[@britneyafrica]

Thank for tuning in 🤍🤍

[@eugenianyameke2855]

Hi darling you missed the NZEMA tribe

[@britneyafrica]

Hi, Nzema people are under the Akan and i hopw to do a video about the Akan ethnic group very soon

[@yamoahbahyenyadom5891]

Hausas and Fulanis are not part of the Ghana tribe. They are migrants from Nigeria, Futajalon. They are not part of Ghanaian heritage. No land belongs to them. They live in communities among the natives. I will defend our heritage. We don't want confusion in our tribes, we know ourselves. Please do your research properly.

[@daa8956]

Thank you so much for this

[@britneyafrica]

Thank you so much for tuning in ❤️ I hope you stay tuned for similar videos, also hope you enjoyed.

[@gornahsimonamy2780]

You are passionate about your work and that should encourage you to research more on your subject to make your work credible. I am niether a historian nor a specialist on the tribes of ghana and it will interest me if you could tell us more about the dagaare, sisala, lobi,gruni, kanjaga, kasena nankani, gonja, vagla, komkomba, nanumba, chumburi ... tribes of Ghana. Thanks

[@korkoilartey4031]

My father is from the GA tribe it was nice to see my last name

[@Blackgypsyy]

Asante - Hausa and Fante - Ga

[@adjeikuffor4467]

Ashante is not only Ashante region Ahafo is the same

[@britneyafrica]

Oh ok, great thank you 👌🏾

[@showtime1524]

@@britneyafrica how about degari people no mention of them

[@joshuaniisakabrown6360]

Kente is not Ashante culture it’s rather Ewe’s . Please more research next time

[@asantemarch7400]

Wow 😯 Good morning ☀️

[@larbikingsley3135]

Plse. Asante, Fante Akuapem, Akim etc.belong to the same tribe

[@blesshassey1804]

The Dangbes are the largest they consist of the Ada, nigo, prampram, s3, osudoku, and the largest amongst all are the krobo people. The dangbes are 85 percent amongst the Ga Adangbe group, 7opercent of the greater Accra lands belongst to the Adangbe people. Please learn more about we the Adangbe.

[@manueleyiah6272]

Akan is the umbrella ethnic group. Tribes likes Ashanti, Nzema, Fantes etc are under this umbrella.

[@chimakalu41]

Which ethnic group are you the host from?

[@kimberlymccarthy4383]

Are Fante people European if so how much percent

[@britneyafrica]

I wouldn’t necessarily say Fante people are European, but that Due to Fante’s living in and around the coastal region, they were the first to be exposed to Europeans. I’m not sure of the dynamics but it’s fair to say a fair few Fante’s intermarried, and worked for Europeans adopting their English names, hence why you could say Not all but many Fante’s have English sounding surnames. So if you are asking about DNA percentage I can’t say that Fante’s have European blood but would most probably be a very small amount in the Fante Population. Hope this helped ❤️

[@peteryeboah9033]

Hausa is not one of Ghanaian tribe. They were only brought from Northern Nigeria by the British to come and fight the great Ashanti Kingdom.

[@sophiawilson8696]

Where Is the Akan?.

[@manueleyiah6272]

Fante language is romantic ❤😊

[@foam3132]

K, just to clarify that the correct saying is the peoples of Ghana. The Asante are a people, not a tribe. The different Asante abusua are tribes

[@adjeikuffor4467]

People's forget bono who will be 5 million have 2 regions

[@zebra4805]

Lack of informations, not only ashantis uses kente and gold in ghana, what about the other tribes .

[@agona-piesieabankesieso7539]

Pls do a proper research, ok, if your program links with history bcos the Asanti tribe is full of mix tribe bcos of the King Ntim Gyakari war,( asa n'ti ) tribe are mix of Sefew,Bono, Adansi,Asene,Gonja,Dagomba,Mossi from Bukina Fasso were hired , Akwamu,Wassa,Nzima, and even one third of the Asanti towns are Denkyirans in which you don't know where Osei Tutu were trained as a King with Ɔkomfɔ Anokye as a sorcerer around 1681. Pls don't confuse people when it comes to history for there are many historians online in ghana and abroad because the Akans were many in those day 1600 before Osei Tutu form the collation in 1701. At that time all the small small Akan town were on their own independent e.i like Mampong,Akrokyere,Bowesango, Formina,Abankeseiso banso,Twifo, Juakobu,Kwaaman, Kokofo, Kumawu,Offiso,Juabin, except the Fante's who were at the southern coast and there were nothing like Kumasi or Asanti till Kofi Osei Tutu's war in 1701( asa n'ti ) Read Denkyira making the Asanti kingdom online pls, thanks .

[@atienuteaakompi2836]

What about the Guan? The aborigines?

[@britneyafrica]

Hi, thanks for your comment ! , i did mention the Guan tribe towards the end of the video, and very briefly spoke about them. I hope to do a seperate video on the Guan - as they were the first settlers of Ghana. Thank you

[@kwawkwansah2452]

​@@britneyafricaGuan were early settlers. They wete displaced by later groups But they may not be the first. There are some archaelogical sites known as Begho and Kintampo cultures which suggest people inhabited Ghana up to 3000 years ago. Ww need to be circumspect on our comments Also Hausa is not really from Ghana as a trade language it is widely spoken. But people in the north of Ghana includes Nanumba, Sisala, Dagati, Gonja, Konkomba, Busanga Lobi and so on

[@yotsanta]

You do not call a 7 million people a tribe. Are Ashantis not more than Danish, Kosova, Macedonian? Please use ethnic group instead for populous people.

[@kwasisarfoacheampong5385]

But you forget Bono my dear

[@britneyafrica]

Hi Bono also come under the Akan ethnic group and also hope to do a video on them

[@edwardkwakubofa6733]

Madam do a proper research Asantis an Bono, Akuapim,Akgyim, an fantes are AKANS.

[@Yohahnhandz612]

Maakye Abusua (Fante & Proud)

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

My name is ESI Oubi Doumbi Bosomtwe Thomson Lepage Morgan

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

My father was Ghanian and I would love you to research my father's brother chief of Effia village in Secondi Takoradi

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

Fanti tribe

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

I believe he has 5 wifes

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

Son of Efiah N'tow . My father's Brother name is Nana B. Rembong Yaw, other siblings Kogo N. Soun, Awui N. Soun, Kwaku Awotiwi, Fante Tribe

[@sofiaellemorganechanteuse]

I am not sure of the exact spelling

[@jamesfranksontettey2677]

When it comes to tribes there is so much misinformation such that it is sickening. The tribes in Ghana will never never never love one another and tribal tensions will forever dominate politics, government and social life. This obviously makes the future bleak since no tribe will like to be dominated by another tribe. Europe tried to build nations comprising of tribal or ethnic groups like in former Yugoslavia, Checkoslovakia and others. They all failed. So will the Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and others also fail in the near future. If Africans are wise and adopt the Swiss, Indian, American systems maybe we can have a future.

[@britneyafrica]

Definitely agree with some of what you are saying, but do you really believe tribal tensions will never end ?! If Ghanaians can do one thing it’s definitely come together in times when we need each other 👌🏾🤞🏾sure there are differences but I think we can say we appreciate those differences, when it comes to the political aspect of tribal tensions Im not too knowledgeable, but thanks for your insight 🙏🏾🙏🏾 hope you subscribed ❤️

[@jamesfranksontettey2677]

@@britneyafrica Let us have strong Ghana like strong Switzerland, strong India, strong UK, strong US etc with each tribe maintaining it's language and identity under a government running a free market economy drawing from the economic strength that all the constituent tribes bring to a United Ghana with economic and financial destiny. Switzerland should be our model.

[@britneyafrica]

Definitely agree here, if there is anything that can make Ghana stronger it should happen ❤️😌 what do you think Ghana could exactly to become stronger as a nation ?💪🏾

[@jamesfranksontettey2677]

@@britneyafrica It is simple. Let us draw on the peculiar strengths of the constituent tribes to build a vibrant nation. Not a country where Ashantis for example want so much to dominate else we will definitely go the way of Cote D'Ivoire and Nigeria, I am afraid. Let's take a look at what Mahama did and what Akufo Addo is doing now. It is very sad. When will Africans learn. Today almost all government top posts are held by Ashantis and Akyems not even Fantis their cousins. Mahama did the same. Our colonizers really did us a lot of harm by the way African countries are presently constituted. We just can't develop in harmony with this situation. Cote D'Ivoire went very far but Tribalism has now destroyed everything. Look at Germany and Switzerland and see how they are constituted. No tribe in Germany and Switzerland feels threatened by another tribe.

[@britneyafrica]

Wow!, you are very knowledgeable in this area. Corruption and implicit tribalism also has a role to play in the posts held more by a certain tribe. It definitely is unfair. I do believe that Ghana, with all it's issue's is as peaceful as there can be. Don't you believe there is a greatness in Ghana being different to the west or the countries you mentioned we should be more like!

[@africantruth2539]

Asantes and Fantes are not tribes but belong both to the Akan tribe. The Ewes and other tribes also have subgroups but you and many others don't called them tribes. It is only when it comes to Akan subgroups you do that. Neither Fante nor Twi are languages. Rather they are dialects of the Akan languages. You are doing a good job but have to be accurate.

[@britneyafrica]

Hi, thanks for your comment. this is exactly what i was trying to convey. My wording may have miscommunicated this. I do agree that when it comes to the Akan ethnic group people are more knowledgeable on them, and so sometimes omit to speak about the other ethnic groups which the Ewe fall in. Thank you

[@africantruth2539]

@@britneyafrica No problem and you are welcome.

[@TheCounselOfNigritia]

I did my African Ancestory test, and my results on my patrilineal side is Akan. But everytime I do research it never talk about Akan specifically

[@agyemangjonathan3191]

But is Akan an ethnic group or tribe?

[@africantruth2539]

@@agyemangjonathan3191 Even though I wrote tribe, Akan is an ethnic group. However, it is common in Ghana to call the ethnic groups as tribes.

[@PhonzyFc-h9i]

My surname is asante🤣

[@nicholasgrant300]

Can u search your roots in ghana

[@britneyafrica]

Yes you can, are you familiar with AfricanAncestry.com Africans identity ourselves through our tribes and then through countries, you would often hear an African say what tribe they are off especially west Africans. You can find out what tribe you are from through African ancestry ❤️❤️ hope this helped and hope you subscribed too

[@nicholasgrant300]

Already subs

[@britneyafrica]

@@nicholasgrant300 Thank You, Hope that helped 🤞🏾

[@nicholasgrant300]

Are u living in ghana

[@britneyafrica]

@@nicholasgrant300 No, I’m a Ghanaian living in the Uk

[@evanscarl1029]

Get it right ,ewe cut across Ghana,Togo and Benin. Is the language of the west Africa coast.

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

I can tell you're asante lol

[@britneyafrica]

Ohhh wow thank you, that’s a first 👌🏾👌🏾😂 how can you tell?!

[@ericdickens6869]

Asante is not a tribe