Ghana (Eastern Region, Central Region, Ashanti Region and Accra)
Languages
Twi and English
Religion
Christianity predominantly, Akyem Traditional Religion
Related ethnic groups
Akan
The Akyem are an Akan people. The term Akyem (Akem, Akim or Aki) is used to describe a group of four states: Asante Akyem, Akyem Abuakwa, Akyem Kotoku and Akyem Bosome. These nations are located primarily in the eastern region in south Ghana. The term is also used to describe the general area where the Akyem ethnic group clusters. The Akyem ethnic group make up between 3-4 percent of Ghana's population depending on how one defines the group and are very prominent in all aspects of Ghanaian life. The Akyem are a matrilineal people. The history of this ethnic group is that of brave warriors who managed to create a thriving often influential and relatively independent state within modern-day Ghana.[1] When one talks of Ghanaian history, there is often mention of The Big Six. These were six individuals who played a big role in the independence of Ghana. Of the big six, people of Akyem descent made up the majority.
The Akyem are an Akan people. The term Akyem (Akem, Akim or Aki) is used to describe a group of four states: Asante Akyem, Akyem Abuakwa, Akyem Kotoku...
Akyem Kotoku describes a traditional geo-political entity in Eastern Ghana. Akyen Kotoku is one of the three independent states along with Akyem Bosome...
Akyem Bosome describes a traditional geo political entity. A state with a non contiguous land mass that exists today in the Eastern and Ashanti region...
Akyem Abuakwa is one of the four states of Akyem in 14th-century Africa. Currently, it is part of Ghana. Historically, the Akyem were part of the Adansi...
This is a list of rulers of the Akan state of Akyem Abuakwa. Ghana Gold Coast Lists of incumbents Stewart, John (1989). African States and Rulers. London:...
Akyem mine is an open-pit gold mine near New Abirem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is owned by Newmont. The mine was developed in 2005, with commercial...
administrative and traditional center of the Birim Central Municipal District and Akyem Kotoku, respectively. The town had 60,604 residents as of 2013. Akim Oda...
are: AKYEM ABUAKWA – the largest of the states in terms of land, size, population and natural resources. AKYEM KOTOKU – the second largest. AKYEM BOSOME...
family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Ashanti, Baoulé, Bono, Chakosi, Fante, Kwahu, Sefwi, Wassa, Ahanta...
Ras Akyem (sometimes called Ras Akyem Ramsey or Ras Akyem I Ramsey) is a Barbadian painter. A graduate of the Edna Manley School of Art in Jamaica, his...
Akim Swedru Senior High School, also known as AKISSS, is a co-educational senior high school located south of Akim Swedru, the capital of the Birim South...
Peninsula. It is the smallest of the three Akyem states, including Akyem Abuakwa and Akyem Kotoku, that form the Akyem Mansa—which is a nation-state of non-contiguous...
only woman to hold the office of ruler, or Okyenhene, in the history of Akyem Abuakwa in present-day Ghana. She ascended the Ofori stool in 1817 after...
-0.6928472 Akyem Apinamang is a mining community near Akwatia in the Denkyembour District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The people of Akyem Apinamang...
Ohum Festival is a traditional festival celebrated by Akuapems and Akyems in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The festival is celebrated on a Tuesday/Wednesdays...
October 1881 – 21 August 1943) was the Okyenhene or King of the Akyem people and of Akyem Abuakwa, a traditional kingdom that stretches back to the thirteenth...
Nana Dokua was the queen mother of Akyem Abuakwa. She was the one who welcomed the King of the Dwabens called Nana Kwaku Boateng and his army. A civil...
founder of the Akyem State, afterwards Kyebi located in the valley of the Birim river after 1727. He ruled from 1704 to 1727. "Akyem Abuakwa, 1700-1943:...
originate in what is now modern-day Ghana, by the Asante, the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Bono and the Fante people of the Akan ethnic group of Ghana and now...
Ghana before 1725 as 'Ackee' or 'Aki', another name for the Akan people, Akyem. The fruit's scientific name honours Captain William Bligh who took the...
Okyenhene is the title of the Tribal King of Akyem Abuakwa (also styled Okyeman), an old powerful traditional kingdom in the Eastern Region of Ghana....
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