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Asamoah

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Asamoah is a prominent last name of the Akan tribe in West Africa, primarily located in Ghana. It is derived from "Asomafo" in the twi (chwee) language, meaning "apostles." In Twi, "Asoma" is the verb "to send" and "fo" means people, so the literal translation is "sent people." The family name grew with the rise of Christianity in the *Ashanti Empire and later Gold Coast which are the forerunners to modern Ghana. It is originally pronounced with three syllables "a-sah-muah" but the lack of the twi vowel "ɔ" in many scripts has led to the four syllable pronunciation "a-sa-mo-ah" in western culture.