Mampong
Asante Mampong | |
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_location_map.png)  Asante Mampong Location of Mampong within Ashanti | |
| Coordinates: 7°4′N 1°24′W / 7.067°N 1.400°W | |
| Country | Ghana |
| Region |  Ashanti |
| Municipality | Mampong Municipal |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 42,037[1] |
| • Ethnicity | Ashanti people |
| • Nationality | Ashanti |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | GMT |
Mampong is a small town in the Mampong Municipal of Ashanti and serves as the administrative capital of Mampong Municipal.[2] Mampong has a population of 42,037 people.[1] Mampong is also the centre of the new Anglican Diocese of Asante Mampong, inaugurated in 2014.
Namesakes
There are several settlements in the Ashanti Region with this name.
Notable residents
- Bill Asamoah (born 1975), Actor, Producer, Publicist, Tourism Ambassador, Kumawood President, Ghana Actors' Guild Ashanti Regional Chairman
- Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), author
- (Brobbey Boakye Malik) used to be a student activist and an executive member of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) in 1981
- J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921-2019), ethnomusicologist and composer
- Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi Akuoko (b. 1928), lawyer
- Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa (1936–1979), soldier and politician
- Gerald Asamoah (b. 1978), retired footballer who played for the German national team and FC Schalke
- Amoakohene Frank (1990 to date),2020 NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Mampong Constituency, a veteran student leader;former President of NUGS 2017/2018 and former President NAHSAG 2015/2016
- Oteng Amponsah Enock (1988 to date), Former SRC president of University of mines and Technology, Tarkwa, a prolific writer, a politician and a Mineral Processing Engineer at Newmont Mining
- Akwasi Ampofo Agyei (late), founder and leader of Kumapim Royals Band, a renowned highlife musician
- I. G. P. Kwakyi, former Inspector General of police
- Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa (1953 to date), Ghanaian educator, politician, pathologist
- Jones Clifford Akosa (b. 1911), businessman, politician, former District Commissioner
- Isaac Adu-Gyamfi, entrepreneur, Corporate Control specialist and banker
- Reginald Reynolds Amponsah (b. 1919), potter, politician, former Minister of State
- Francis Ampratwum (died 2016), legal practitioner
- Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong (b. 1958), former Deputy High Commissioner and Member of Parliament
- Francis Addai Nimoh (b. 1965), former Member of Parliament
- Charles Allen Gyimah, entrepreneur, politician, and founder of Video City, Ghana.
- Dr Kofi Amaniampong (1944 to date) Ob/Gyn Specialist and Founder of Jubail Specialist Hospital and Fertility Centre, Sakumono
Commissioner of Police CID/Special Branch J. H. Owusu-Sechere LLB 1918–1986, his nephew Governor, Bank of Ghana, banker/economist Dr J.H. Frimpong-Ansah 1930–1999
Villages
- Mprim
- Bosofour
- Daaho
- Adw33ho
- Copa
- Asikafor Amantem
- Tunsuom
- Zongo
- Akyeremade
- Ade3mra
- Lowcost
- Old Daamang
- New Daamang-Site
- Nwaase
- Penteng
- Krobo
- Dadease
- Nwaadan
- Asaam
- Naama
- Nyinampong
- Brofoyeduru
- Benim
- Kofiase
- Hwidiem
- Kyeremfaso
- Bobin
- Nkwanta
- Brengo
- Timber-Nkwanta
- Aboatem
- Bosomkyekye
- Woraso
- Sekuruwa
- Adidwan
Nintin
Other villages
- Hiamankyene
- Genyakura
- Owuobonho
Note
The centre for Plant Medicine is not in Mampong Ashanti but in Akuapim Mampong in the Eastern Region.
References
- ^ a b "World Gazetteer online". World-gazetteer.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11.
- ^ "Mampong Municipal District".
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