Akwamu 1650 – 1750 A Study of the Rise and fall of a West African Empire.

Abstract

Little is known of the Akwamu State. It is not until Akwamu emerges as a coastal and imperial power, in the second half of the seventeenth century, that there commence numerous references to Kwamu in the series of reports on local affairs written by servants of the Danish, Dutch and English trading companies operating along the Gold Coast. From that time onwards it becomes possible to reconstruct the history of Akwammu in considerable detail. Nevertheless, a few isolated references to Akwamu in its pre-imperial period survive, and enable one to attempt a tentative outline of the consolidation of the state that period