Akan academia and inventions
Akan academia and inventions is the scholarly term for research concerning Akans and Akanland. It consists of several disciplines such as academia, technology, and science.
Akan academia
Akan lecturer and influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, Kwame Nkrumah was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. Akan Kwame Anthony Appiah is an internationally respected philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Akan doctorate of philosophy in philosophy; Nat Quansah was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Akans in Akanland enrol and graduate from prestigious Akan secondary education institutions within Akanland such as Prempeh College, Opoku Ware School, Osei Kyeretwie Secondary School and Kumasi Academy; Mfantsipim School and Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Senior High School; Koforidua Senior High Technical School; Fijai Senior High School; and Akans in Akanland enrol and graduate from prestigious Akan higher education institutions within Akanland such as the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Garden City University College; University Of Energy And Natural Resources; University of Mines and Technology; University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast; University of Sustainable Environmental Studies and Applied Research, All Nations University and Ashesi University.
Akan inventions
Akan program manager, Patrick Awuah, Jr. spearheaded the development of dial-up internetworking- technologies at Microsoft. Awuah founded the Ashesi University.
Akan internationally respected mathematical physicist, Francis Allotey is credited for the invention of the "Allotey Scientific Formalism" which arose from his work on soft X-ray spectroscopy.
See also
- African Studies
- African Science and Technology
- Invention