Why these Ashanti warriors left the Asantehene to join a new race
Father Paramount Stool of the Kabiawe Yumu people in Ada explained the story of this incident
They are warriors who have waged many wars, fighting for themselves - the kingdom ofAshanti and the people of Denkyiras.
In fact, it was said that they were heroes for the Asantehene of the Ashanti kingdom and Denkyirahene more than a hundred years ago, but the time has come for them to leave. Itwas after the Feyiase warbetween the Ashantis and the Denkyiras.
Some of these heroes are said to have separated themselvesfrom their kingdoms and peopleand started their own way for a new life. They later met the Ga Dangmes who already lived in a place called Okor Hwemie and the two groups decided to stay together, considering how they could get help.
Speaking on GhanaWeb'sPeople & Places, Stool father of the Paramountcy family -Kabiawe Yumu nye Ada, Numo Israel Kartei Abram Akuako, explained how it was said,
"The Akan people, where my wife and I come from, they arethe Ashantis and the Denkyiras and during the war between the Ashantis and the Denkyiras,they fought with the king of the Ashantis and the Denkyiras, so they left their own blood.people are also looking for a place to live. They came to meet the Dangme tribe who came first. They were once heroes. They are fighting, they are the soldiers of the Asantehene and the Denkyirahene. So some of them are actually Bantama like our family, and some areDenkyira,” said Numo Israel Kartei. "They are heroes but they don't want to fight for the Asantehene and anybody. They want to create their own thing,"he added. “The Kabus led theAkans to join them (Dangmes) in the Okor forest. They formed a group and realized that they could help each other," he added. Numo Israel Kartei also told how one daughter was born.
According to him, Ada includesAkan, Ewe and Ga Dangme groups. "Ada has three major tribes, it is not a tribe that migrated here, but the first tribe that went here was the Dangme tribe and they are with other Ga Dangme people in a place called Lorlovo, in the eastern region of Ghana , near the Volta River.
According to Numo Israel Kartei, the Akan people joined the Dangmes and after some time decided to leave the forest for a better land to stay. Theysettled on a plain near Songhor, where salt is mined in Ada today. Later, some Ewe groups,including the Kogbor and Owhoewem people who also lived, looking for land to live in,found these people and decided to join them. He explained that the history of the Ewe is somewhat different, because apart from the Kogbor and theOwhoewem among the Ewewho joined them later, there arethe Kudragbe people who live inone of Adam's islands. "Afterwards, they moved to a plain near the salt flats, and the sheep came to join them. “Thefirst people who came were the Kogbo people (which means they will live with the Okor people) and there is an Ewe tribe called Kudragbe who used to be on the river side of the island. from Ahaviatse, then the Owhowem people joined them,so that we have 3 Ewe tribes, among the Dangme 4 children,then the Akan people.
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