Mampong
Mampong is a town in the Ashanti region as the capital of Sekyere West District in Ghana and easily confused with Mampong Akwapim in. Therefore for Mampong in Ashanti, the addition Ash. be used. Mampong is on the meridian of longitude 7 ° 03 ' .00 "N and 1 ° latitude 24'36 .00 " W.
Mampong is located about 50 km north of Kumasi at the northern end of the Mampong - Highlands. Nearby is the Boumfoum wild animal reserve in the west and the Kogyae Reserve in northwestern Mampong lie. The city is located at one of the city's roads to the north, ending in Yeji. The road between Mampong and Kumasi is well constructed and asphalted, so the 50 km can be covered in a three-quarter hour. In the creation of the Volta Lake, however, the connection between Mampong and Tamale was initially interrupted, and Mampong has lost its significance as a trading city.
Mampong is next to Kumasi, the second most important residence of the traditional kings of Ashanti. Historically had Mampong therefore holds a significant role. On the way from Kumasi to Mampong along the Mampong Road, many of the Major Cities of the Ashanti culture as centers of Kente Arts Adinkra - print art and weavings (examples: Pankronu, Ahwiaa, Ntonso ).
Today, about 20,000 people live in Mampong. Mainly they are employed as plantation farmers, as a focus here on the cocoa, coffee and tobacco.
Tetteh Quarshie brought cocoa seeds 1879, the first to Ghana for the first time the cocoa growing on the African mainland. In the place Mampong, he built the first time on the African mainland successful cocoa plants and so broke the Portuguese and Spanish monopoly. Even today, his plantation to visit in the vicinity of the place.
Famous people
- Gerald Asamoah, professional football player (FC Schalke 04), German national football team
- Okatakyie Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa, Head of State 1969-1970
- Nana Boahen Anantuo, tribal chief of the Ashanti from the Ashanti war against Denkyira
- JH Kwabena Nketia, ethnomusicologist and composer