Akan Personal Names

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“It is revealing how Sekyi-Baidoo employs elements of general linguistics – semantics, grammar and phonology – to discuss the ideas, patterns and practices behind the creation of names among the Akan: and he presents these aspects of linguistics in a way that makes them be able to speak to the linguist as well as other students of names.

But of these, the stunning aspect is the establishment of the conceptual basis of names, especially when it is often held that Akan names have generally lost their meaning.

The discussions are able to place the various aspects of the life of the Akan – the material culture, the conceptual culture, and religious or spiritual culture, the social culture, and the linguistic culture, with its concepts and meanings, lexical items, grammar, and phonology – within a single  interconnected functional system of the creation and allocation of personal names”.

Prof. John F. Wiredu, Department of English, University of Ghana

 

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Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo

Yaw Sekyi-Baidoo is a professor in the Department of English Education at the University of Education, Winneba. where he serves also as Dean of the Centre for International Programmes, and a member of the Governing Council. He has deep research interest in onomastic theory and Akan onomastics and he is currently working on an Akan onomastic dictionary project.

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