The Bono People-Akan of West Africa

About Bono (Brong/Abron) people of Ghana and Côte d'lvoire. Bono is the cradle and civilization of Akan.

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Konadu, Kwasi & Campbell (2016). The Ghana Reader: History, culture and politics. Duke University Press, Durham and London.

Warren, D.M (1975). The Techiman-Bono of Ghana; an ethnography of Akan society. Kendall/Hunt Publishing

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Bono is the origins of Akan culture and civilisation

Lawyer Frimpong Anokye was right when he said that at TV3

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REFERENCES
Compton, Annie M. (2017). Excavations at Kranka Dada: An examination of daily life, trade and ritual in the Bono Manso region. Bar Publishing, Oxford.

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Meyerowitz, E. L. R.(1950) Akan traditions of origin. Faber & Faber Limited.

Adum-Kyeremeh, Kwame (2017). Asante Rule as a Factor in the Emergence of the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Department of History, University of Ghana.

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Arhin, Kwame. (1979). A profile of Brong Kyempim (Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong peoples of Ghana) Edited with introduction by Kwame Arhin. senior Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon.

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Buah, F.K. (1998). A History of Ghana. McMillan, London and Oxford.

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Issah, Mustapha. History of textiles in Ghana, the Akan background.

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Kwasi Konadu (2007). Indigenous medicine and knowledge in African society. Routledge, New York and London.

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Adu Boahen, A. (1986). Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900–1. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.

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It is therefore evidently that Lawyer Anokye Frimpong was right, Asante culture came from Bono (Konadu 2016, p.49; Warren 1975, p.3) and more especially Techiman. It was Bono intelligentsia which was taken to Kumasi to teach Asantes Akan civilised ways of life and culture.

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they send people to Techiman, for they are the keepers of the Akan calendar.

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THE AKAN CALENDAR
The Akan calendar or Adaduanan also trace its origins to Bono. It is from Bono that it was diffused into Asante and other Akan states. Rattray stated that whenever Asante is in doubt of celebrating Akwasidae and festivals,…

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THE GREAT TANO
The source and origins of Tano god also called Taa Kora is from Bono. The veneration of Tano is not only limited to Bono but the whole Akandom especially Asante. (Kwasi Konadu, 2016 p.39)

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This system of measuring value by gold weight as a medium of exchange was later developed by Asante and other Akan states.” (p.9)

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GOLD WEIGHTS AND SCALES
According to Meyerowitz 1950 (pp 43-44), historical records also indicate it was Bono who taught Asantes how to use gold. The use of gold weights and scales as a measure of currency is a typical example.

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Buah (1998) also recorded “Under the great ruler Akumfi Ameyaw c.1328-1363… he said to have been the first ruler in Akanland to introduce gold dust as a currency and gold weights as a measure of value.

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Arhin (1979) also indicated, Asantes did not know how to use some of the stolen regalia from Bono.

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GOLDEN STOOL AND REGALIA
Golden stool of pure gold was one of the elements in Bono and Bono taught Asantes the usage of gold. (Meyerowitz 1950; Konadu 2016 p.49). Moreover the first golden stool was stolen from Bono Manso by Asantes after the Asante-Bono war in 1723.

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Adum-Kyeremeh (2017) recorded “According to Bowdich, the Asante stool was carved out of common wood of the country and encased in golden plates. The Gyaman stool had a far greater meaning and significance for Asante than its reported superior quality.” (p.10)

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In a witnessed event, Bowdich described the Gyaman golden stool as “greater in splendor and value and in every way superior to that used by the Asantee chief.” him, the stool was “greater in splendor and value and in every way superior to that used by the Asantee chief.”

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However, this stool is believed to have been seized by the British.

Another golden stool of Gyaman which sparked the war in 1818 was far superior than Asante in.