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Fanti

Member of an Akan-speaking people of the coastal area of Ghana. Traditionally they are farmers and fishers. They inherit property and titles through the female line and membership in work and political organizations through the male line. They migrated to the coast in the 17th century, forming autonomous city-states, which later joined in the Fanti confederacy.



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