Akwamu people
Nation and ethnic group in Ghana
Ethnic group
- (Akan)
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- Akan religion
- Christianity
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]
References
- ^ a b Olson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN 9780313279188.
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