Origins and Early Settlements

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The Nsawkaw people trace their origin back to the movement of the Bono people after a series of civil conflicts and spiritual revelations that...

The Dormaa people trace their beginnings to the expansive network of Bono states that once dominated the forest and savannah boundary zones of Ghana. Their...

The traditions surrounding Nsua Tre in the Bono and Ahafo region have roots that stretch back to the earliest Bono settlements. Oral accounts state that...

According to the oral traditions recorded by Kwabena Ameyaw, the people of Sampa trace their ancestry to the Nafana group who migrated from Kakala...

In the vast history of the Bono and Ahafo (Brong Ahafo) Region, Adantia occupies a quiet yet vital space. Adantia’s oral traditions reveal a history...

The story of Banda, who reside deep in the northwest of the Bono region, is a unique one that is not oft enough mentioned. Long...

From the settlements of Adanse and Amansie, waves of people set out toward the north and west, carrying with them their stools, their shrines,...

In Akan oral memory, Adanse is the cradle of civilization, the soil where Odomankoma, the Creator, began shaping the world. Tradition holds that the ancestors...

The Akan developed from a network of settlements in the Brong-Ahafo region, which evolved into the Bono, Wenchi, and Nsoko people. Simultaneously, down south,...