Essam is a small town and is the capital of
Bia West District
Bia West District is one of the nine districts in Western North Region, Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, ...
, a
district in the
Western North Region
The Western North Region is one of the six new regions of Ghana created in 2019. The region is bounded by the Ivory Coast ( Comoé District) on the west, the Central region in the southeast, and the Ashanti, Ahafo, Bono East and Bono regions ...
of
Ghana.
The people there are mainly
Sefwi people
The Sefwi are an Akan people.
The Akan sub-group live predominantly in Western North Region of Ghana. The Akan sub-group speak the Akan dialect Sefwi language.
The term Sefwi, which refers to the language spoken and the Sefwi people mythica ...
and their common language is the
Sefwi language
Sehwi, also known as Sefwi, Esahie, and Asahyue, is a Niger-Congo language spoken by 305,000 across southwestern Ghana, principally in the Western Region. It is a Kwa language of the Central Tano branch, closely related to Anyin, and mutually ...
.
References
Populated places in the Western North Region
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