Agogo

Agogo is a city in the Asante Akim North Municipal District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Agogo is approximately eighty kilometers east of Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region, and had a populace of 28,271 inside the 2000 census. Computer projections estimate that the 2007 population became 32,859. Around the yr 1500, the people of the Aduana extended family in Asantemanso, who have been firstly from Esumegya, dispersed to settle in exceptional elements of the country.

One institution settled at Nyanawase under Ansa Sasraku, but moved once more after a chain of wars with the Ashantis and the Gas. In the cease they settled in Akwamu. In or across the yr 1600, 3 chiefs of the Aduana clan: Ofori Krobon of Agogo, Ntori Nimpa of Kwaman, and Effa Kai of Kumawu left Akwamu to enroll in forces below the command of Ofori Krobon of Agogo with the intension of fighting and defeating Ataara Finam. He turned into the ideally suited ruler of the Afram plains at that time. This war lasted for nearly 3 years. All the lands managed with the aid of the vanquished Ataara Finam had been annexed to the 3 stools who have been independent of every different.