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Akan nnwom and funeral songs (Amanee)

Akan nnwom and funeral songs (Amanee) are the songs and laments performed at Akan funerals in Ghana, with the dirge, chanted by women soloists, as the central genre.

Akan people

Akan people: West African peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire speaking Akan (Twi) languages, with matrilineal kinship (abusua), subgroups such as Asante and Fante, and a noted tradition of brass goldweights.

Akan Seri

Akan Seri, born Akzhigit (Ақан сері, 1843–1913), was a Kazakh poet, singer, and composer of the sal-seri tradition of itinerant musician-poets, best known for the song "Kulager".

Akananuru

Akananuru (அகநானூறு, Akanaṉūṟu), also called Netuntokai, is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature, collecting 400 love poems of the akam genre.

Akandanayama

Akandanayama (アカンダナ山) is a 2,109 m andesitic stratovolcano with a summit lava dome on the Nagano-Gifu border, Honshu, part of the Yakedake volcano group; it erupted between 11.6 and 2.3 ka with no historical activity.

Akane Tsunemori (常守朱)

Akane Tsunemori (常守朱) is the protagonist inspector of Psycho-Pass, voiced by Kana Hanazawa, designed by Akira Amano; she polices latent criminals under the Sibyl System and leads Unit One as SHEPHERD 1 by season 2.

Akane Yamaguchi (山口茜)

Akane Yamaguchi (山口茜), born 1997, Japanese women's singles badminton player; three-time BWF World champion (2021, 2022, 2025), first Japanese world No. 1 (2018), 35 titles, 5th at three Olympics.

Akanu Ibiam

Akanu Ibiam, also known as Francis Akanu Ibiam, was a Nigerian medical missionary and statesman who served as Governor of Eastern Nigeria from 1960 to 1966.

AKAP12

AKAP12 (A-kinase anchoring protein 12; SSeCKS, AKAP250, gravin) is a human 6q25.1 scaffold gene binding PKA, PKC, and beta2AR, acting mainly as a tumor and metastasis suppressor downregulated in many cancers.

AKAP9

AKAP9 (A-kinase anchoring protein 9; AKAP450, AKAP350, Yotiao, CG-NAP) is a human gene on 7q21.2 encoding a ~450 kDa scaffold anchoring PKA at the centrosome, Golgi, and plasma membrane, organizing Golgi microtubule nucleation and linked to long-QT syndrome and AKAP9-BRAF thyroid fusions.

Akara Robotics

Akara Robotics is a healthcare robotics company based in Dublin, Ireland, and a Trinity College Dublin spin-out, best known for Violet, an autonomous ultraviolet disinfection robot deployed in hospitals.

Akarçay Tepe Höyük

Akarçay Tepe Höyük is a Neolithic settlement mound at Akarçay village, Birecik, Şanlıurfa, on the Euphrates' east bank; excavated 1999–2006 (METU TAÇDAM), it spans Middle PPNB to Pottery Neolithic with the region's first pottery, plus Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval layers.

AKARI

AKARI (あかり, "light"), known before launch as ASTRO-F, was Japan's first dedicated infrared astronomy satellite, launched by ISAS in February 2006 to carry out an all-sky infrared survey far more sensitive than IRAS.

Akari (あかり) (lamp)

Akari (あかり), meaning 'light' in Japanese, are paper-shaded light sculptures designed by Isamu Noguchi from 1951 in Gifu, Japan, distinguishing themselves from ordinary chochin lanterns by electric bulbs, metal armatures, and over 100 sculptural models.

Akari Fujinami

Akari Fujinami (藤波朱理), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 2003 in Yokkaichi, Mie; Paris 2024 Olympic 53kg gold, 2021 and 2023 world champion, 155-match win streak ended by Il Sim Son at the 2026 Asian Games.

Akari Kitō (鬼頭明里)

Akari Kitō (鬼頭明里) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Aichi Prefecture, best known as the voice of Nezuko Kamado in Demon Slayer and Kanata Konoe in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

AKARI Project

The AKARI Project, or AKARI Architecture Design Project, was a Japanese research program led by NICT from 2006 to design a new-generation network architecture free of IP constraints.

Akari Takaishi (髙石あかり)

Akari Takaishi (髙石あかり), born 2002 in Miyazaki, is a Japanese actress with Avex Management known for Baby Assassins (Chisato Sugimoto), the 2023 TAMA Film Awards Best Rising Actress prize, and as heroine of NHK's morning drama Bakebake.

Akaroa

Akaroa is a harbour town on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, site of the 1840 French Nanto-Bordelaise settlement, Treaty of Waitangi signings by Iwikau and Tīkao, and Hector's dolphin tourism.

Akasa Air

Akasa Air is an Indian low-cost airline based in Mumbai, launched in 2022 with backing from investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and flying an all-Boeing 737 MAX fleet.

Akash (आकाश) (missile)

Akash (आकाश) is an Indian short-range surface-to-air missile system developed by DRDO, with a range of 4.5 to 25 km, operational with the Indian Air Force and Army.

Akash Banerjee (आकाश बनर्जी)

Akash Banerjee (आकाश बनर्जी), Indian YouTuber, radio jockey and political satirist, founder of The Deshbhakt channel and the Bhakt Banerjee caricature; former Radio Mirchi and Times Now journalist, author of Tales from Shining and Sinking India.

Sep 19, 2026

Akash Bhanshali

Akash Bhanshali is a Mumbai-based investor and Chartered Accountant who leads principal investments at Enam Holdings, with exchange-disclosed holdings of over Rs 82.3 billion (Rs 8,230 crore) across 16 stocks as of June 2026.

Akash Network

Akash Network is a decentralized, open-source cloud computing marketplace, launched in 2020, where tenants lease CPU and GPU compute from independent providers through on-chain auctions.

Sep 27, 2026

Akash Pandurang Fundkar

Akash Pandurang Fundkar is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly who serves as the state's labor minister and Guardian Minister of Akola district.

Oct 3, 2026

Akash Vaani

Akash Vaani (ஆகாஷ் வாணி) is a 2022 Tamil romantic comedy web series, aha Tamil's first original, directed by Enoc Able, starring Kavin and Reba Monica John as a divorced couple feigning love at a college reunion; seven episodes, Telugu version 2024.

Akasha

Akasha (Sanskrit ākāśa, आकाश) is a concept of Indian philosophy denoting open space or sky, the finest of the five elements in Hindu ontology and the substratum of sound.

Akashdeep

Akashdeep (आकाशदीप) is a Hindi short story by Jaishankar Prasad, published in 1929 as the title story of his collection, set in the medieval Indian Ocean.

Akashi

Akashi (明石市, Akashi-shi) is a core city in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on the 135°E Japan Standard Time meridian facing the Akashi Strait. About 305,000 people; known for Akashi Castle, sea bream, octopus, nori aquaculture, and the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.