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Adinkra
Adinkra are West African visual symbols encoding philosophical concepts, found in textiles and art, with research on cultural meanings, proverbs, and symbolism.
Akan
Adinkra Symbols in Cloth, on Walls, and on the Kristo Asafo Tomb
At Ntonso, a town north of Kumasi in Ghana's Ashanti Region, a printer works with a stamp cut from a piece of calabash shell.
Akan
Who Is Nyame? The Akan Sky God Who Owns the Stories
On the rear window of a trotro in Accra, in gold leaf on a coffin lid in Kumasi, on a pendant at the end of a chain in Brooklyn — the same shape keeps turning up. Two curled arms, one upright stem.