“The Akan never constituted a majority among other African cultural groups shipped to various parts of the Americas, including Jamaica, throughout much of the ‘slave trade’ (henceforth, ‘international enslavement enterprise’). However, their leadership skills in war and political organization, expertise in medicinal plant use and spiritual practice, and their very presence as archived in the musical traditions, language, and patterns of African diaspora life far outweighed their actual numbers (whatever the ultimate total might be).”

-Kwasi Konadu, The Akan Diaspora in the Americas