The richest gold country of the Akan forest, along the Ofin and its tributaries round the later Obuasi, with the old workings at Akrokerri and Dompoase near Adansemanso that Ofosu-Mensah describes as mined under ritual supervision.
Whether gold was dug here for trade on 1 January 1200 is not shown: Garrard dated the earliest Akan gold weights to about 1400 and Wilks the Wangara opening of the goldfields to the late fourteenth century. A gold-bearing district, not a town.
Who holds it
- Title
- Not known
- Since
- Not known
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
No lord known.
How things stand that morning
Gold in the ground and the rivers; working for trade not shown in 1200.
Walls and castle
See summary.
Trade and crafts
Alluvial and reef gold (later).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Geology and later workings; dating of the trade disputed.
Sources and studies
- Akan people (Wikipedia, citing Shinnie 2005, Ofosu-Mensah 2010, Boaten 1971, Konadu and Campbell 2016, Shumway 2011)
- Akan goldweights (Wikipedia, citing Garrard 1972)
- I. Wilks, Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Journal of African History 23 (1982); T. F. Garrard, Akan Weights and the Gold Trade (1980); from the researcher's knowledge
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.