The Akwamu people are an
Akan Akan may refer to:
People and languages
*Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
*Akan language
Akan () is a Central Tano languages, Central Tano language and the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken ...
ethnic group 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 are native around the border between the
Eastern and
Volta Region
Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi-e ...
s. The Akwamu founded
an empire from the 17th and 18th centuries until
British colonization
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in 1886.
Olsen Olsen or Ölsen may refer to:
*Olsen (surname), people with the surname ''Olsen''
* Fred. Olsen & Co., a large shipping company with worldwide headquarters in Oslo, Norway
*Ölsen, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
* Olsen House, a his ...
states in his 1996 research that Akwamu populace in Ghana numbered over 50,000.
References
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Ethnic groups in Ghana