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  Akatakyiwa borders on Yamoransa. The town has two primary schools and a JSS will be built this year. There will also be a vocational school.

Pictures of a primary school:

 

  
  Primary School in Akatakyiwa Primary School in Akatakyiwa - Interior Primary School in Akatakyiwa - Interior Primary School in Akatakyiwa - Interior width= Durbar grounds in akatakyiwa  
             
  The following pictures are from Sigrid Rosen-Bouillon, Zevenhuizen (The Netherlands):  
             
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Detailed Report of Akatakyiwa in the Mfantsiman District in the Central Region of Ghana
Author: Nana Poma Kwaduah XVIII
Brief History of Akatakyiwa

Akatakyiwa was known in the Mfantseman District according to Archives records in 1661. History depicts that people of Nkusukum who migrated from Bole in Northern Ghana, and first settled there for a long time before embarking on a journey to Southern Ghana.

Then they spread themselves along the coast and the forest within the Mfantsiman District, and the man and his two sisters journeyed to the Western part of the District. They resided at Biriwa, so being a hunter, he started his work and there came by a stream called river Bruku, as they say WATER IS LIFE, he decided to settle there so he went back to call his two sisters and they settled at the forest. 

The man called “Poma Kwaduah” and his two sisters Takyiwa and Aekyiwa, finally settled in the forest as their home. Later Aekyiwa was married to a chief of the village called Ekumfi Abuakwa also in the Mfantsiman District. 

Poma Kwadua who was also the first chief of the village was one of the finest hunters at that time. He was called to a mission in another village near Komenda to kill a leopard that was disturbing them, he killed the leopard, so they named the village after him, and they called the village “Akatakyi” in the Komenda. By then, when people went to the village (where he settled with  his sisters), they met only Takyiwa, so when they returned to their village, they told their families that: “Aka – Takyiwa nko wo ho” – which literally means it has left with Takyiwa alone in the village. 

So from that time, if anyone is going to the village, he/ she will say: “I am going to aka Takyiwa”, so that was how the village got its name “AKATAKYIWA”. 

Sources: 

  1. Central Regional Archives
  2. Ancestral Historic Documents C

Compiled by: Nana Poma Kwaduah XVIII,

Chief of Akatakyiwa and Adontehen of Nkusukum Traditional Area

Dated: 25-02-09

  
     
 

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In August 2006, Nana Kwadua was installed in Akatakyiwa. This year, he celebrated his first anniversary.

     
 

Nana Poma Kwadua XVIII

 
     
 

Nana Poma Kwadua XVIII.