Akan Akan may refer to:
People and languages
*Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
*Akan language, a language spoken by the Akan people
*Kwa languages, a language group which includes Akan
* Central Tano languages, a language group ...
ethnic group inhabiting the
Ashanti Region
The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the m ...
of
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Tog ...
. The capital of the Adansi is at
Fomena
Fomena is a small town and is the capital of Adansi North, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
. An Adansihene (king of Adansi) is still designated. The Adansi has seven paramountcies: the capital,
Fomena
Fomena is a small town and is the capital of Adansi North, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
,
New Edubiase
New Edubiase is a small town and is the capital of Adansi South, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
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Dompoase
Dompoase, a suburb of Kumasi, and located in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The place is known for Dompoase Senior High School. It is a town of 30,000 people in Ghana. Kumasi is the capital of the region, considered th ...
. The Adansi is devolved into three
local government
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divisions - Adansi South which has a population of 129,325 and an area of 1,380 square kilometres has the capital at New Edubiase; Adansi North has a population of 235,680, and an area 828 square kilometres and has its capital at
Fomena
Fomena is a small town and is the capital of Adansi North, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
; and Obuasi Municipal which has a population of 175,043 and is the second-largest urban settlement in the Ashanti Region and the eight biggest urban settlement in Ghana. Adansi South was once the largest
cocoa
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter an ...
growing area in the
Ashanti Region
The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the m ...
.
History
The Adansi land stretches from the
Pra River Pra River may refer to:
*Pra River (Ghana)
The Pra River is a river in Ghana, the easternmost and the largest of the three principal rivers that drain the area south of the Volta divide. Rising in the Kwahu Plateau near Mpraeso and flowing south ...
to the south to the Asante paramountcy of
Bekwai
Bekwai is a town and the capital of the Bekwai Municipal, a municipality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.Twi-speaking Denkyera tribe. According to imminent historian F.K.Buah, the Adansiland is considered the origin of some
Akan people
The Akan () people live primarily in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as ''Twi/Fante'') are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Con ...
. In the 17th century, the Adansi were powerful people known for their ability to build beautiful structures. The Akan office of Okyeame (linguist) is said to have originated in Adansi.
Obuasi
Obuasi is a town in the southern
Ashanti Region
The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the m ...
and is the capital of Obuasi Municipal, a district lying south of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Obuasi is the second-largest urban settlement in the Ashanti Region and the eighth-most populous settlement in terms of population, with a population of 168,641 people, according to Ghana's 2010 Population and Housing Census. It is the largest settlement of the Adansi people.
Situated on the railway line from Kumasi to Sekondi, it is known for its Obuasi Gold Mine, now one of the nine largest on
Earth
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, gold having been mined on the site since at least the seventeenth century.