ASHANTI PROVERBS: THE PRIMITIVE ETHICS OF A SAVAGE PEOPLE (English Edition)

First published in 1916, (and republished 1969),this book contains eight hundred and thirty (830) proverbial sayings of the Ashantis revised with the modern Akan-Twi alphabetic characters and an introduction to the Twi language with a view to pronunciation of Twi words. To this has been added numerous annotations including English names of the flora and fauna in the Asante dialect employed in this book. This book seeks to show:

• Some custom, belief, or ethical determinant pure and simple, which may be of interest to the anthropologist.
• Some grammatical or syntactical construction of importance to the student of the language.

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