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Kwonaa

Fante · Fante / Central Region, Ghana · Kinship

Kwonna is one of the Fante family groups (clans) listed by Sarbah among the 'seven great families', where it is grouped with Ebiradzi or Odumna. Sarbah notes that members of a clan call one another brothers and sisters and that it was unusual for free members of the same clan to intermarry.

He belongs to the Kwonaa clan of the Fante.

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