Akua'ba (sometimes spelled Akwaba or Akuba) are wooden ritual fertility dolls from Southern Ghana and nearby areas. The best known akua'ba are those of the Fanti people, “Fanti Dolls” whose akua'ba have large, disc-like heads. Other tribes in the West Africa region (f.ex. Kru and Igbo people) have their own distinctive style of akua'ba. Akuaba or Fante Dolls were known to have been taken to the Americas by some enslaved Africans. They are known to have been carried by slave mothers as little deities and as a connection to their ancestral homeland of Africa.