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**alfredtaniypnx** · 03-20-2012, 08:15 AM

This is cool MK! I have a 4th great grandmother whose last name was written as Ohenia/Ohene. We think it might be a form of the Akan Ohene or Ohenewaa, which apparently is a name connected to some sort of Chief.

Yep, wouldn't surprise me. Akans were brought to those British Caribbean colonies. I tell my woman all the time, that she's basically Nigerian and I ask her when she's going to visit her mother country

In most Caribbean English Creoles, Twi (Akan), Igbo, and Ashanti are the main substrate languages.

03-20-2012, 08:15 AM	#16
alfredtaniypnx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 389 Senior Member	This is cool MK! I have a 4th great grandmother whose last name was written as Ohenia/Ohene. We think it might be a form of the Akan Ohene or Ohenewaa, which apparently is a name connected to some sort of Chief. Yep, wouldn't surprise me. Akans were brought to those British Caribbean colonies. I tell my woman all the time, that she's basically Nigerian and I ask her when she's going to visit her mother country In most Caribbean English Creoles, Twi (Akan), Igbo, and Ashanti are the main substrate languages.
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