Agogo, Ghana

Agogo
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Agogo
Coordinates: 6°48′0″N 1°5′0″W / 6.8°N 1.083333°W / 6.8; -1.083333Coordinates: 6°48′0″N 1°5′0″W / 6.8°N 1.083333°W / 6.8; -1.083333
Country	Ghana
Region	Ashanti Region
District	Asante Akim North District
Elevation[1]	396 m (1,299 ft)
Population (2012)
• Total	36,249
	Ranked 46 in Ghana
Time zone	GMT

Agogo is a city in Asante Akim North District of Ashanti Region of Ghana. Agogo is approximately 80 kilometers east of Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital.^[2] The city is the forty-sixth most populous in Ghana in terms of population, with a population of 36,249 people.^[3]

History of Agogo

After the dispersal of the people of the Aduana Clan from Esumegya, Asantemanso to settle at different places in the country in or about the year 1500 the group that had settled at Nyanawase under Ansa Sasraku moved again after a series of wars with the Akans and the Gas to settle at Akwamu. In or about the year 1600, three chiefs of the Aduana Clan: Ofori Krobon (of Agogo), Ntori Nimpa (of Kwaman) and Effa kai(of Kumawu) left Akwamu and joined forces under the command of Ofori Krobon of Agogo to fight and defeat Ataara Finam the then Supreme Ruler of the Afram Plains, in a war that lasted a better part of three years. All the land controlled by the vanquished Ataara finam was annexed to the three stools who were independent of each other. With this annexation, the three stools Agogo, Kumawu and Kwamang, in common controlled some of the most extensive land possessions in the Ashanti Union. In fact, the three stool owned lands extending to Akwamu as far to the Volta Region, Brong Ahafo and parts of the Northern Region.

Meanwhile the people of Agogo had settled at Santenso where the three year war with Ataara finam was fought to a finish. Like all other Asante States the people Agogo had stayed as a separate, independent entity until the need to form a Union of States arose. Incidentally, the people of Agogo did not take part directly in the Denkyira war in 1698 that saw the liberation of Ashanti from denkyira under King Osei Tutu, although they contributed men and materials to support the Ashanti Forces.

Institutions in Agogo

Agogos Presbyterian Hospital, established 21 March 1931, is the oldest Mission hospital in Ghana, and its Ophthalmology program serves patients from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo.^[4] There is also a collaboration with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Kumasi, which is part of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi and associated with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. The Asante-Akyem campus of Presbyterian University College is in Agogo, with a health and medical sciences department affiliated with the hospital.^[5]

Agogo and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in partnership with Fort Lauderdale-based Citrix Systems and Sister Cities International, launched the prototype Cyber Sister Cities (CSC) program.^[6]

Sister city

Agogo has a sister city:^[7]

• Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

References

External links

• Presbyterian University College, Agogo
• Agogo Presbytarian Hospital
• KCCR

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