Mampong

Asante Mampong
Town and District Capital
Asante Mampong
Location of Mampong within Ashanti
Coordinates: 7°4′N 1°24′W / 7.067°N 1.400°W / 7.067; -1.400
Country Ghana
Region  Ashanti
Municipality Mampong Municipal
Population (2012)
 • Total 42,037[1]
 • Ethnicity Ashanti people
 • Nationality Ashanti
Time zone UTC+0 (GMT)
 • Summer (DST) GMT

Mampong is a small town in the Mampong Municipal of Ashanti and serves as the administrative capital of Mampong Municipal.[2] Mampong has a population of 42,037 people.[1] Mampong is also the centre of the new Anglican Diocese of Asante Mampong, inaugurated in 2014.

Namesakes

There are several settlements in the Ashanti Region with this name.

Notable residents

  • Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), author
  • (Brobbey Boakye Malik) used to be a student activist and an executive member of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) in 1981
  • J. H. Kwabena Nketia (b. 1921), ethnomusicologist and composer
  • Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi Akuoko (b. 1928), lawyer
  • Akwasi Afrifa (1936–1979), soldier and politician
  • Gerald Asamoah (b. 1978), retired footballer who played for the German national team and FC Schalke
  • Amoakohene Frank (1990 to date), veteran student politician;former President of NAHSAG and NUGS President 2017/2018
  • Oteng Amponsah Enock (1988 to date), politician and Mineral Processing Engineer
  • Akwasi Ampofo Agyei (late), founder and leader of Kumapim Royals Band, a renowned highlife musician
  • I. G. P. Kwakyi, former Inspector General of police
  • Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa (1953 to date), Ghanaian educator, politician, pathologist
  • Jones Clifford Akosa (b. 1911), businessman, politician, former District Commissioner
  • Isaac Adu-Gyamfi, entrepreneur, Corporate Control specialist and banker
  • Reginald Reynolds Amponsah (b. 1919), potter, politician, former Minister of State
  • Francis Ampratwum (died 2016), legal practitioner
  • Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong (b. 1958), former Deputy High Commissioner and Member of Parliament
  • Francis Addai Nimoh (b. 1965), former Member of Parliament
  • Peter Abum Sarkodie, former Member of Parliament, Executive Director of EPA,Ghana
  • Charles Allen Gyimah, entrepreneur, politician, and founder of Video City, Ghana.

Commissioner of Police CID/Special Branch J. H. Owusu-Sechere LLB 1918–1986, his nephew Governor, Bank of Ghana, banker/economist Dr J. H. Frimpong-Ansah 1930–1999

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Villages

  • Mprim
  • Bosofour
  • Daaho
  • Adw33ho
  • Copa
  • Asikafor Amantem
  • Tunsuom
  • Zongo
  • Akyeremade
  • Ade3mra
  • Lowcost
  • Old Daamang
  • New Daamang-Site
  • Nwaase
  • Penteng
  • Krobo
  • Dadease
  • Nwaadan
  • Asaam
  • Naama
  • Nyinaapong
  • Benim
  • Kofiase
  • Hwidiem
  • Kyeremfaso
  • Bobin
  • Nkwanta
  • Brengo
  • Timber-Nkwanta
  • Aboatem
  • Bosomkyekye
  • Woraso
  • Sekuruwa
  • Adidwan

Other villages

  • Hiamankyene
  • Genyakura
  • Owuobonho

Note

The centre for Plant Medicine is not in Mampong Ashanti but in Akuapim Mampong in the Eastern Region.

References

  1. 1 2 "World Gazetteer online". World-gazetteer.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11.
  2. ↑ "Mampong Municipal District".
  3. ↑ Karikari Robert


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