Akan
At least some of the Jamaican Maroons were originally of the Akan people of the present Ghana and they used Akan names in various forms, based on the day of the week on which a person was born:
- Sunday: Quashie / Quasheba
- Monday: Cudjoe / Kujo / Juba
- Tuesday: Bene Cobena
- Wednesday: Quaco Cooba
- Thursday: Quaw Aba
- Friday: Cuffe Fiba
- Saturday: Quamin Mimba
The council of a Maroon settlement is called an Osofu, very similar to the Akan:Twi word asafo (= assembly, church)
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