The Akan people are a linguistic group of
West Africa.This group includes the Akuapem, the
Akyem, the
Ashanti, the
Baoulé, the
Brong, the
Fante and the
Nzema peoples of
Ghana and
Côte d'Ivoire. From the
15th century to
19th century, the Akan people dominated gold mining and gold trade in the region.
Akan art is wide-ranging and renowned, especially for the tradition of crafting bronze gold weights, which were made using the
lost wax method of
casting. Branches of the Akan include the
Abron and the
Afutu. The Akan culture is the most dominant and apparent in present-day Ghana. The Akan are typically better educated and are in better financial positions than the other
ethnic groups, historically. Some of their most important
mythological stories are called anansesem. Anansesem literally means 'the
spider story', but can in a figurative sense also mean "traveler's tales". These "spider stories" are sometimes also referred to as nyankomsem; 'words of a sky god'. The stories generally, but not always, revolve around
Kwaku Ananse, a
trickster spirit, often depicted as a spider,
human, or a combination thereof.
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