 Oral tradition attributes the origin of adinkra to Gyaman in modern-day Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.According to Kwame Anthony Appiah, they were one of the means for "supporting the transmission of a complex and nuanced body of practice and belief".Lusona is an ideogram that functioned as mnemonic devices to record proverbs, fables, games, riddles and animals, and to transmit knowledge..