The Akwamu people are an Akan ethnic group in Ghana. They are native around the border between the Eastern and Volta Regions. The Akwamu founded an empire from the 17th and 18th centuries until British colonization in 1886.[1] Olsen states in his 1996 research that Akwamu populace in Ghana numbered over 50,000.[1]
^ abOlson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 9780313279188.
The Akwamupeople are an Akan ethnic group in Ghana. They are native around the border between the Eastern and Volta Regions. The Akwamu founded an empire...
Akwamu was a state set up by the Akwamupeople in present-day Ghana. After migrating from Bono state, the Akan founders of Akwamu settled in Twifo-Heman...
subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Ashanti, Baoulé, Bono, Chakosi, Fante, Kwahu...
River is crossed by the Adome Bridge just below the Akosombo Dam. The Akwamupeople who once built a kingdom in both east and west banks of the river spanning...
the Akwamuhene of the Akwamupeople, as well as his official residence. It is currently occupied by the current king of Akwamu state, Odeneho Kwafo Akoto...
Mampong in Ashanti Region. These multi-ethnic people were given the name Akuapem by Nana Ansa Sasraku I of Akwamu, a renowned warrior king. The word "thousand...
would certainly bring doom upon his people, who were still subjects of the Denkyirans. Instead, he fled to the Akwamu court of Sasraku I in Akwamufie. There...
defeating the Akwamu, the Akyem got control of the land the Akwamu had been occupying that belonged to the Ga nation, and the Ga people were allowed more...
Akwamufie is the ceremonial state and seat capital of the Akwamupeople. It is located along the Akuapim-Togo range, the Volta River and in the Eastern...
Breffu (possibly derived from Twi, Baffour) was an Akwamu leader of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (then known as St. Jan) in Danish West Indies...
The Bono, also called the Brong and the Abron, are an Akan people of West Africa. Bonos are normally tagged Akan piesie or Akandifo of which Akan is a...
alloys. Oral accounts place the formation of the Akwamu state between the 16th and 17th centuries. Akwamu established its capital at Asamankese, where it...
force, sometimes by purchase. In 1692, Nana Asamani, the king of the Akwamupeople, planned to capture the fort from Denmark–Norway. Disguising himself...
civilisations. Twi is spoken by over nine million Asante people as a first or second language. The Asante people developed the Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta...
with the Danes and the Ga-Adangbe people in Accra. He served as a broker between the Danes, the Ga-Adangbe, and the Akwamu traders. Asamani planned to seize...
Bono State (or Bonoman) was a trading state created by the Bono people, located in what is now southern Ghana. Bonoman was a medieval Akan state in what...
The Efutu (also called Awutu or Simpafo) are an Akanized Guang people that are the original inhabitants of present-day Ghana. They founded the coastal...
with Denkyira. He adopted the military organization of Ashanti allies, Akwamu, and honed the Union army into an effective fighting unit. Osei Tutu improved...
on which they were born. This is due to influence of the Akan people such as the Akwamu and others. Local languages are used as the many languages of...
approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century...
festival. The modern city of Asamankese was founded and occupied by the Akwamu. The Akwamus moved south and eastward from Dormaa around the 14th century to Twifo-Heman...
Okomfo Anokye, his original name Kwame Anokye Frimpon Kotobre — Amos Anti, "Akwamu, Denkyira, Akuapem, and Ashanti in the Lives of Osei Tutu and Okomfo Anokye"...
while the Akwamu dominated trade with Europeans in Eastern Ghana. The Denkyira state dominated the neighboring states apart from the Fante, Akwamu and Akyem...
location of Abene, along with a dreaded militia that guarded the route (led by Akwamu warriors) helped stave off attempts by colonial forces to capture the Omanhene...
John, where many plantation owners and their families were killed by the Akwamu, including Breffu, before it was suppressed later the following year. In...
section of the Aduana headed for Akwamu. Some of the principal towns of the Aduana are Dormaa and most of the Bono people, Akwamu and Twifo Heman. In Asante...
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