Akwamu was a state set up by the Akwamu people in present-day Ghana. [1] After migrating from Bono state, the Akan founders of Akwamu settled in Twifo-Heman. The Akwamu led an expansionist empire in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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]

Akwamu, Akan state (c. 1600–1730) of the Gold and Slave coasts of western Africa. At its apogee in the early 18th century, it stretched more than 250 miles (400 km) along the coast from Whydah (now Ouidah, Benin) in the east to beyond Winneba (now in Ghana) in the west.

After the death of the fifth Twifo King, a section of the Abrade, Under the leadership of Otumfo Asare (1580-1595), migrated from Twifo-Hemang to Abakrampa to Asamakese, they became know as "Akwamu", in place of their former name "Twiforo".

Farming prospered, producing wealth in food, and some of the Akan communities in time coalesced into small states and minor kingdoms. At least two of these new states became prominent: those of Akwamu in the south and Denkyira …

A large number of the Asantes of today originated from Akwamu especially, people from Asafo and Adum as well as sections of people from Bantama and Barekese.

Akwamu expansion in Ghana started between 1629 and 1710. The powerful king Otumfuo Ansa Sasraku I annexed the Guan and took over the traditional areas of the Kyerepon. According to Akwamu tradition, Otumfuo Ansa Sasraku I, also played an important role in the life of the King Osei Tutu I of Asante by protecting him from the Denkyera .

2023年10月29日 · The Akwamu were originally called Aduana Twifo but got the name “Akwamu” or “Akwamufo” when they were moving from their settlement at Twifo Hemang. According to highly acclaimed Ghanaian Historian, Henry Kwadwo Amoako, the Akwamu (ah-kwah’-moo) got their origin name from the Akan term “kon bu” meaning neck (kon) break (bu).

Akwamu was a state set up by the Akwamu people in present-day Ghana. After migrating from Bono state, the Akan founders of Akwamu settled in Twifo-Heman. The Akwamu led an expansionist empire in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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