Social and Economic Survey of Kwamu

Abstract

A social and economic survey of the village of Kwamu was made by the students and staff of the Department of commerce, college of Technology during their spare time in the months of November and December, 1952. 2. Kwamu is a village on the main Accra-Kumasi road about 10 miles from Kumasi. It lies within the cocoa farming area and the majority of the men in the village a r e cocoa farmers. Many of the cocoa farmers work on farms some distance from Kwamu and at the time of the survey most of them were living away from the village in other cocoa farming areas. The villagers of Kwamu are eager to move from their present village to a new site on the new Kumasi-Accra .road which is still under construction. This new road lies about one and half miles to the north of the village