The Adinkra Dictionary: A Visual Primer on the Language of Adinkra

W. Bruce Willis's dictionary catalogues the Adinkra symbols of the Akan people of Ghana entry by entry, giving each symbol's visual form, name and traditional proverbial meaning as documented within Akan visual and oral tradition itself, rather than a single outside theory imposed across every symbol. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with any individual entry, and it has not checked every entry against a second independent Akan source. Use it for the meaning and use of a specific Adinkra symbol; it is a reference cataloguing individual symbols rather than a connected historical argument about the broader visual tradition.