There are many ways of naming children in the world. Some children are named after grandparents, saints, mystical meanings, favourite singer or even depending on the weather during the child's birth. The Akan are no different. The people of Akan name their chilldren after seven days. The children are named depending on the day they were born and their gender. The akan people have defined seven names per gender, each referring to a day of the week. For example a girl born on Monday will be called Adwoa while a boy is called Kwadwo.
- In the landing page click find out more to take you to another page.
- Enter your date of birth. When you feed in this, it calculates when you were born. For example July 7th 2013 calculates and gives a Sunday.
- Choose your gender. A named is assigned based on your gender and the day you were born.
NB: When one inputs an incorrect value, an alert if given to check your values again. When one leaves the gender field blank, one is prompt to choose a gender.
Internet connection Phone or laptop
Live demo link https://sandrachege.github.io/akan/
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