Mampong

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.

Asante Mampong
Town and District Capital
Asante Mampong
Location of Mampong within Ashanti
Coordinates: 7°4′N 1°24′W
CountryGhana
Region Ashanti
MunicipalityMampong Municipal
Population
 (2012)
 • Total42,037[1]
 • Ethnicity
Ashanti people
 • Nationality
Ashanti
Time zoneUTC+0 (GMT)
 • Summer (DST)GMT

Namesakes

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

Notable residents
  • Bill Asamoah (born 1975), Actor, Producer, Publicist, Tourism Ambassador, Kumawood President, Ghana Actors' Guild Ashanti Regional Chairman
  • 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 (1921-2019), ethnomusicologist and composer
  • Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi Akuoko (b. 1928), lawyer
  • Akwasi Amankwa 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),2020 NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Mampong Constituency, a veteran student leader;former President of NUGS 2017/2018 and former President NAHSAG 2015/2016
  • Oteng Amponsah Enock (1988 to date), Former SRC president of University of mines and Technology, Tarkwa, a prolific writer, a politician and a Mineral Processing Engineer at Newmont Mining
  • 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
  • Charles Allen Gyimah, entrepreneur, politician, and founder of Video City, Ghana.
  • Dr Kofi Amaniampong (1944 to date) Ob/Gyn Specialist and Founder of Jubail Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre, Sakumono

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
  • Nyinampong
  • Brofoyeduru
  • Benim
  • Kofiase
  • Hwidiem
  • Kyeremfaso
  • Bobin
  • Nkwanta
  • Brengo
  • Timber-Nkwanta
  • Aboatem
  • Bosomkyekye
  • Woraso
  • Sekuruwa
  • Adidwan

Nintin

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. "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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