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Adinkra are symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms. Adinkra are used extensively in fabrics and pottery among the Ashantis of Ashanti Kingdom and the Baoules who historically migrated to Ghana.

The symbols have a decorative function but also represent objects that encapsulate evocative messages that convey traditional wisdom, aspects of life or the environment.

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• GET/symbols

The/symbols route accepts the query string parametersname,meaning andsynopsis for returning specific symbols that match those searches.

To get all symbols with 'Nyame' in the name, you would send/symbols?name=Nyame

To get all symbols with 'star' in the meaning you would send/symbols?meaning=starSame for 'star' in the synopsis if you follow my drift.

You can also combine query string params./symbols?name=Nyame&meaning=heavens&synopsis=courage will return all symbols than contain 'Nyame' in the name or 'heaven' in the meaning or 'courage' in the synopsis.

GEThttps://adinkra.herokuapp.com/symbols?name=Nyame&meaning=heavens&synopsis=courage

GEThttps://adinkra.herokuapp.com/symbols?name=Nyame

GEThttps://adinkra.herokuapp.com/symbols?meaning=star

Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page.This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the clone button and then click thecopy to clipboard icon.

Open a terminal and run the following git command:

git clone "url you just copied"

where "url you just copied" (without the quote marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.

For example:

git clone https://github.com/this-is-you/adinkra.git

wherethis-is-you is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the first-contributions repository on GitHub to your computer.

Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):

cd adinkra

Now create a branch using thegit checkout command:

git checkout -b <add-your-new-branch-name>

For example:

git checkout -b your-branch-name

(The name of the branch does not need to have the wordadd in it, but it's a reasonable thing to include because the purpose of this branch is to add your name to a list.)

If you go to the project directory and execute the commandgit status, you'll see there are changes.

Add those changes to the branch you just created using thegit add command:

git add .

Now commit those changes using thegit commit command:

git commit -m "<Descriptive Commit Message>"

Push your changes using the commandgit push:

git push origin <add-your-branch-name>

replacing<add-your-branch-name> with the name of the branch you created earlier.

If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see aCompare & pull request button. Click on that button.

Now submit the pull request.