Mamfe Akuapem
town in Eastern Region, Ghana
Mamfe is a town in the Akuapim North Municipal District of the Eastern Region of south Ghana. It shares borders with Amanokrom and Akropong.
History
Mamfe is a very strategic town in the Akuapem State. Mamfe is arguably the central town of the state as it connects all the 17 towns of Akuapem as well as having a very good road passing through it to Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital.
The Mamfehene, Osabarima Ansah Sasraku II, doubles as the Kyidomhene of Akuapem. Mamfe has featured regularly in the government’s budget statements when reference is made to the Tetteh Quarshie-Madina- Pantang-Mamfe road project.
That portion of the road from Akuapem to Accra was in a deplorable state until the 2000s when the then government secured funding to fix the Pantang –Mamfe portion. The Tetteh Quarshie to Pantang portion is in an advanced state of rehabilitation now.
Mamfe is thus a very popular town in Ghana in terms of geographical location and its role in traditional governance.
On a sunny day in May 1983 a section of the youth of Mamfe-Akuapem in south-eastern Ghana – reeking heavily of alcohol and marijuana, armed with machetes and pick-axes and angrily singing war songs, drumming and dancing – went to the residence of Nana Ama Ansaa Sasraku II, their queen mother.
“Mamfe Akuapem” enters the record as town in Eastern Region, Ghana. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mamfe, Akuapem and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107473403. The first chronological checks are 1983.
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