Ghanaian symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms
This article is about the Bono visual symbols. For the term in physics, see Adinkra symbols (physics).
Samples of recorded Adinkra symbols
Adinkra are symbols from Ghana that represent concepts or aphorisms. Adinkra are used extensively in fabrics, logos and pottery. They are incorporated into walls and other architectural features. Adinkra symbols appear on some traditional Akan goldweights. The symbols are also carved on stools for domestic and ritual use. Tourism has led to new departures in the use of symbols in items such as T-shirts and jewellery.
Adinkra calabash stamps
The symbols have a decorative function but also represent objects that encapsulate evocative messages conveying traditional wisdom, aspects of life, or the environment. There are many symbols with distinct meanings, often linked with proverbs. In the words of Kwame Anthony Appiah, they were one of the means for "supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief".[1]
^Appiah, Kwame Anthony (1993). In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1st paperback ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506852-8.
walls and other architectural features. Adinkrasymbols appear on some traditional Akan goldweights. The symbols are also carved on stools for domestic...
standardized font in 2020. Adinkra Nkyea, a writing system based on the Adinkrasymbols.[unreliable source?]. Some Ghanaians use the Adinkra Nkyea writing system...
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and markers. Adinkrasymbols Alchemical symbols الله Allah Angel Moroni Ankh Armenian eternity sign Astrological sign Astrological symbols Astrology and...
actual creator of the adinkrasymbols was most likely an earlier Bono artist with the name Adinkra much before the time of Kwadwo Adinkra. In the 19th century...
women scoffed at.[citation needed] The Ashanti used Adinkrasymbols in their daily society. The symbols were used as a form of decoration, logos, arts, sculpture...
categorised into aesthetics, ethics, human relations, and concepts. The Adinkrasymbols have a decorative function as tattoos but also represent objects that...
names and Asante and Akan-surnames (but mispronounced by the English), Adinkrasymbols on houses, Anansi stories and the dialect of Jamaican Patois being...
nsoromma is one of the Bono Adinkrasymbols, which is interpreted to mean "Osram" Moon "Ne" and "Nsoromma" Star. This symbol signifies love, bonding and...
Region of Ghana. The Ashanti used Adinkra in their daily lives. Adinkra Nkyea is a writing system based on the Adinkrasymbols[citation needed] Akan at Ethnologue...
supersymmetry, and supergravity. His current research focus is on Adinkrasymbols, a graph-theoretic technique for studying supersymmetric representation...
military chaplain symbols. Similarly, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers recognize 57 symbols (including a...
corresponded to a series of eight Adinkrasymbols. Using a nearby decoder key, teams had to locate the eight symbols in a massive word search-like puzzle...
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela. In Ghana, the swastika is among the adinkrasymbols of the Akan peoples. Called nkontim, swastikas could be found on Ashanti...
missions. In such situations, the meaning associated with the Ashanti Adinkrasymbol embossed on the sheath conveys the message of the mission. Its name...
have really good chemistry." Sarkodie-Mensah has tattoos of Ghanaian Adinkrasymbols along his spine. His first name (Kofi) is the traditional name in Ghana...
Akan culture originating from Western Africa, one of the Adinkrasymbols named Wawa Aba is a symbol of hardiness, toughness, and perseverance. People there...
culture also include, but are not limited to: Akan art Kente cloth Adinkrasymbols Outdooring naming ceremony Akan names Akan Calendar Akan Chieftaincy...
to move between worlds, realms, times, traditions, and elements." An Adinkrasymbol; the name is Akan for "God is King." Depicts a German shepherd and American...
of Ghana: University of Ghana. p. 6. User, GitHub. "AdinkraSymbols & Meanings". AdinkraSymbols & Meanings. Retrieved 26 March 2023. {{cite web}}: |last=...
miniature representations of West African cultural items such as the adinkrasymbols, plants, animals and people. The earliest weights have been dated from...
(fontomfrom, atumpan), Akan nomenclature, umbrellas used for kings, adinkrasymbols, fly whisk, ivory trumpets, head gears, swords of the nation. Bonos...
of animals, birds and plants. These reliefs consist of traditional Adinkrasymbols, having unique symbolic meanings associated with Asante culture and...
stools, goldsmithing, blacksmithing, Kente Cloth weaving, the famous adinkrasymbols and goldweighing. Anquandah, James (2002). "Ghana: early towns & the...
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