Download or read book Asante Twi Dictionary Phrasebook written by Editors of Hippocrene Books and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique, two-part resource provides travelers to Ghana and the Ivory Coast with the tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on a variety of topics."--Back cover.
Download or read book Asante Twi Learner s Dictionary written by Kasahorow and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to read Modern Akan.The Asante Twi Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary of Asante Twi Pronunciations in Akan and English.Contains basic nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Akan language book.Discover the joy of reading in Akan.Suitable for children 8 to 12 years old.
Download or read book Akan Language the Akan Phrasebook and Dictionary written by Kwasi Bediako and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Akan language collects the most common Akan phrases and expressions as well as an English-Akan/Akan-English dictionary. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, sightseeing and many other categories of expressions that will help anyone wanting to learn Akan.
Download or read book A Comprehensive Course in Twi Asante for the Non Twi Learner written by Florence Abena Dolphyne and published by Ghana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asante Twi is the most widely spoken of the dialects of the Akan language, and Akan is spoken by about forty four percent of Ghana's population as a first language. It is also used as a second language by many others. The author, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ghana, has written the bookto introduce a non-Twi beginner to the spoken language, which forms themain focus. Dialogues are as natural and as close to current every day usage as possible. "...another book that should be very helpful to students and examiners in the Twi (Asante) language." (West Africa)
Download or read book Modern Akan written by Esi Cleland and published by kasahorow Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn simple Akan for getting around Ghana and making friends. Modern Akan is a concise, portable and easy-to-grasp reference to the Akan language. This kasahorow language guide includes - a basic grammar for Akan readers and writers - useful phrases for warming up a new relationship Written in Modern Akan. Modern Akan is a simplified spelling system used to write all the varieties of spoken Akan. Includes a pronunciation guide for reading Modern Akan in Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi and Fanti. Learn Akan: Learn Twi, learn Fanti, learn Akuapem.
Download or read book Let s Speak Twi written by Adams Bodomo and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Speak Twi is an introductory textbook for those seeking proficiency in Akan/Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of Ghana. This book is a systematic introduction to Akan and Ghanaian culture through the language learning process. Included are exercises and activities that require active participation on the part of the learner. The book also serves as a useful companion for academics and others embarking on field-trips to Ghana and neighboring countries where Twi is spoken.
Download or read book LearnAkan Twi Idioms Guide written by Stephen Awiba and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Twi learner, or a non-native speaker of Twi, you may have heard a native speaker use an expression that you knew the meanings of all its constituent words but still couldn't tell what the expression meant overall. This is typically characteristic of proverbs, idioms, and other such sayings. The purpose of LearnAkan Twi Idioms Guide is twofold: to help you make sense of some key idiomatic expressions in Twi to equip you to be able to use them yourself when speaking Twi The guide is intended for use by learners of Twi of all levels, as well as non-native speakers. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE IDIOMS COVERED IN THIS BOOK ARE IN THE ASANTE TWI DIALECT
Download or read book Learnakan Conversational Twi Guide written by Stephen Awiba and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of most learners of Twi is to attain optimal communicative competence in the shortest possible time. It is for this reason that we have put together this rather exhaustive conversation guide to help all learners. LearnAkan Conversational Twi Guide is intended for use by beginner, intermediate and advanced Twi learners alike. It features phrases and sentences used in natural conversation settings. In all, the e-book is divided into seventy-eight (78) sections, with each section dealing with a different communicative situation.
Download or read book Values of Adinkra Symbols written by Adolph Hilary Agbo and published by Ebony Designs and Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jabari written by Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds and published by Around the Way Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar of the Malayan Language written by William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English to Twi Bilingual Picture Dictionary written by Arielle Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English to Akan, Twi Picture Dictionary is a great resource whether you are teaching a child Twi or learning it yourself. It is a good starting point as it allows you to learn new words for everyday items and common animals. This book features bold and striking images as well as example sentences in both English and Twi, with highlighted keywords to help you learn and remember the words.
Download or read book Let s Learn Twi written by Paul A. Kotey and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Twi, the language of the Akan people of Ghana, incorporates Akan culture into the instruction. While primarily of use to the lay person, it will, however, also be welcomed by the more academic linguist wishing to learn more about the language's structure.
Download or read book Ama a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade written by Manu Herbstein and published by Moritz HERBSTEIN. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman." During a period of four hundred years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read and write was a criminal offense. When the last slaves gained their freedom in Brazil, barely a thousand of them were literate. Hardly any stories of the enslaved and transported Africans have survived. This novel is an attempt to recreate just one of those stories, one story of a possible 12 million or more.Lawrence Hill created another in The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows my Name in the U.S.) and, more recently, Yaa Gyasi has done the same in Homegoing. Ama occupies center stage throughout this novel. As the story opens, she is sixteen. Distant drums announce the death of her grandfather. Her family departs to attend the funeral, leaving her alone to tend her ailing baby brother. It is 1775. Asante has conquered its northern neighbor and exacted an annual tribute of 500 slaves. The ruler of Dagbon dispatches a raiding party into the lands of the neighboring Bekpokpam. They capture Ama. That night, her lover, Itsho, leads an attack on the raiders’ camp. The rescue bid fails. Sent to collect water from a stream, Ama comes across Itsho’s mangled corpse. For the rest of her life she will call upon his spirit in time of need. In Kumase, the Asante capital, Ama is given as a gift to the Queen-mother. When the adolescent monarch, Osei Kwame, conceives a passion for her, the regents dispatch her to the coast for sale to the Dutch at Elmina Castle. There the governor, Pieter de Bruyn, selects her as his concubine, dressing her in the elegant clothes of his late Dutch wife and instructing the obese chaplain to teach her to read and write English. De Bruyn plans to marry Ama and take her with him to Europe. He makes a last trip to the Dutch coastal outstations and returns infected with yellow fever. On his death, his successor rapes Ama and sends her back to the female dungeon. Traumatized, her mind goes blank. She comes to her senses in the canoe which takes her and other women out to the slave ship, The Love of Liberty. Before the ship leaves the coast of Africa, Ama instigates a slave rebellion. It fails and a brutal whipping leaves her blind in one eye. The ship is becalmed in mid-Atlantic. Then a fierce storm cripples it and drives it into the port of Salvador, capital of Brazil. Ama finds herself working in the fields and the mill on a sugar estate. She is absorbed into slave society and begins to adapt, learning Portuguese. Years pass. Ama is now totally blind. Clutching the cloth which is her only material link with Africa, she reminisces, dozes, falls asleep. A short epilogue brings the story up to date. The consequences of the slave trade and slavery are still with us. Brazilians of African descent remain entrenched in the lower reaches of society, enmeshed in poverty. “This is story telling on a grand scale,” writes Tony Simões da Silva. “In Ama, Herbstein creates a work of literature that celebrates the resilience of human beings while denouncing the inscrutable nature of their cruelty. By focusing on the brutalization of Ama's body, and on the psychological scars of her experiences, Herbstein dramatizes the collective trauma of slavery through the story of a single African woman. Ama echoes the views of writers, historians and philosophers of the African diaspora who have argued that the phenomenon of slavery is inextricable from the deepest foundations of contemporary western civilization.” Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.
Download or read book Dictionary of Languages written by Andrew Dalby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Download or read book Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana written by Kwasi Ampene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nnwonkoro is a genre of women's song found among the Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. It has become a hybrid musical form, incorporating songs and dance movements based on traditional practices alongside others reflecting Christian influence. Nnwonkoro groups perform regularly at funerals, on state occasions, for entertainment, and even in church. In common with other Akan musical traditions, nnwonkoro is transmitted orally and aurally. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Asante and Bono Ahafo regions, and featuring many transcriptions of songs, this book investigates the nature of composition in oral culture, together with issues such as the scope of the poetic imagination and the transformation processes that accompany modernization. This study illuminates the musical style of nnwonkoro in a way which, it is hoped, will facilitate future comparative study of African songs. A CD recording is included.
Download or read book Somali Learner s Dictionary written by Kasahorow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to read Modern Somali.The Somali Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary of Somali and English.Contains basic nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Somali language book.Discover the joy of reading in Somali.Suitable for children 8 to 12 years old.
