Akuapem Mountains
Akuapem may refer to: * Akuapem people, an ethnic group of Ghana * Akuapem dialect, their language * Akuapem Kingdom Akropong is a town in South Ghana and is the capital of the Akuapim North District, a district in the Eastern Region of South Ghana. This town is known for producing snails and palm oil.

Akuapem People
The Akuapem are one of the main ethnic groups of the Akan people living in 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 Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina .... They mostly reside south of the Eastern Region of Ghana. References Akan {{Ghana-stub ...
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Akuapem Dialect
Akuapem, also known as Akuapim, Akwapem Twi, and Akwapi, is one of the principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Bono and Asante, with which it is collectively known as Twi, and Fante, with which it is mutually intelligible. There are 626,000 speakers of Akuapem, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire. It is the historical literary and prestige dialect of Akan, having been chosen as the basis of the Akan translation of the Bible. Etymology The name Akuapem is thought to derive from either Akan ''nkoa apem'' ("thousand subjects") or ''akuw-apem'' ("thousand companies"). History Akuapem's orthography was first developed by missionaries at the Gold Coast Basel Mission in 1842, but its written history begins in 1853 with the publication of two grammars, the German ''Elemente des Akwapim Dialects der Odshi Sprache'' and the English ''Grammatical Outline and Vocabulary of the Oji Language with especial reference to the Akwapim Dialect'', bo ...
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Akuapem Kingdom
Akropong is a town in South Ghana and is the capital of the Akuapim North District, a district in the Eastern Region of South Ghana. This town is known for producing snails and palm oil.Akuapim North District
. Akropong has a 2013 settlement population of 13,785 people.

History

Akropong was the site of a mission station run by the

Basel Mission

. Akwapim in which we see today became what it is from immigration and tribal wars. About 13 ...
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