Other Akan languages employ variants on Obroni: For example Western Ghana, uses the term ‘Brofo’ or ‘Brofwe’.
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Oburoni (or Obroni) is the Akan (or more specifically, the Twi language) word for foreigner, literally meaning "a person from beyond the horizon".
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West Africa does not have an equivalent of the ubiquitous ‘mzungu’, used throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, and even within Ghana, Obroni predominates because it is common to the predominant local languages, those of Akan family, primarily Ashanti Twi, Akuapem Twi and Fante.