Brong (people)
The Brong are a people in Ghana as well as in the Ivory Coast (in the department of Bondoukou ), who are also called Abrong , Abron , Bono , Boron , Bron , Doma or Gyaman .
The Brong are namesake of the Brong-Ahafo region in the center of Ghana. In Ghana, the Brong number around 1,050,000 to 1,185,000 people - alongside the other peoples of Ghana . Only a small part of this people, an estimated 131,700 to 186,000 people live in the Ivory Coast. Here the predominant name of this people is Abron, in Ghana Brong.
The Brong belong to the Akan ethnic group and speak the Abron , a Kwa language . They are predominantly members of the traditional Akan religion , but there are also increasing numbers of followers of Christianity .
history
In the 15th century, the Abron founded the Bondoukou kingdom with the legendary King Adou Bini . In the sixteenth century, the Brong established the Gyaman Kingdom within the Bono Kingdom .
literature
- Italian : Marco Lunghi, Gli Abron della Costa d'Avorio: una cultura teocratica che sopravvive e si rinnova , Vita e pensiero, Milan, 1984, 158 p., ISBN 88-343-0335-0 .
- English : Kwame Arhin (dir.), A profile of Brong kyempim: essays on the archeology, history, language and politics of the Brong peoples of Ghana , University of Ghana, 1979, 180 p. (Actes d'un séminaire de 1973)
- Eva Lewin Richter Meyerowitz, “A re-appraisal of Meyerowitz on the Brongs - a rejoinder”, in Research Review (Legon, Ghana), vol. 8, n ° 2, 1972, pp. 11-19
- James Stuart Olson , "Abron", in The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8 , p. 5.
- Dennis M. Warren, "Bono shrine art", in African arts (Los Angeles), 9 (2), janvier 1976, pp. 28-34, 80
Individual evidence
- ↑ «Abron. A language of Ghana » ethnologue.org
- ^ Voir E. Terray, Une histoire du royaume abron du Gyaman: des origines à la conquête coloniale , 1995 (nombreuses références)