The key subject here is about Kinship but as it is practiced among the Ashanti's.
Patrilineal Kinship
The relationship between boys and females of patrilineal descent is via their dads but not through their mothers. However, only men pass on their family identity to their progeny.
Children born to a woman are patrilineal descendants of her spouse. Patrilineal descent has been used by many civilizations throughout history to pass on titles and property. Even now, most surnames come from patrilineal ancestry.
For instance, a child usually gets the last name of his or her father. The patrilineal succession tradition, in which the crown is inherited by the male heirs, was another practice followed by royal dynasties.
Absolute primogeniture, which ensures that the first-born child would inherit the throne regardless of gender, has replaced agnatic succession in the majority of European royal lineages since the turn of the 20th century.
Matrilineal Kinship
The type of unilineal descend that follows a female line is known as matrilineal unilineal descent. Two persons are deemed related if they can be traced back to the same female ancestor through female ancestors using this pattern.
Both male and female children are descendants of their mothers through matrilineal descent, albeit only daughters are capable of passing along the family line to their offspring.
Social interactions between children and their dads in matrilineal societies typically diverge from what most people would expect because the biological father is not a part of their matrilineal family.
The next elder male kinman in the example of ego below, his mother's brother (MoBr), would be the person with the official responsibilities that European society associate with a father.
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