Kokofu is a town in the
Bekwai Municipal district
Bekwai Municipal Assembly is one of the forty-three districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Amansie East District, which it was created from the former Amansie District ...
, a
district
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in the
Ashanti Region
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of
Ghana
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.
History
There are many variations on the origin of Kokofu. The following information is taken from Ghana Place Names.
Ghana Place Names, Kokofu
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1. "When Kobia Anguanfi came to the throne, he said that Assumya .. was not a convenient place for him to dwell with his families so he sent his hunter to seek for a place so that they may dwell there. This hunter in searching for a place, found a gardiner by name Kokor who had made a large garden or Affuo (the Ashanti name for a garden). So this hunter returned and told the King and so the king used to make a promenade to the garden of Mr. Kokor. When they were accustomed of the place, the king said to his families that he will go and make a dwelling at Kokor Affuo, i.e. the garden of Kokor, so they all went and dwell there. When they had settled there, they at first called the place 'Kokor Affuo', and afterwards the place came to be called Kokofu."
2. "the name Kokofu originated from 'Koo-ko-Afuom' meaning soft cocoyam farm"
3. Ellis gives; "Koko-fu probably means People of the Hill (Koko), there being a well-marked range of hills in the Kokofu District." However Ellis's etym. is not always reliable.
4. R.S.Rattray: "The first person of the Oyoko clan to come from the ground at 'Santemanso was Ankyewa Nyame. She .. had a daughter, Pinamin Panyin. .. When the Oyoko people first came from Omanso to settle at the place now called Kokofu, they found a certain hunter, by name Odabo, and his mother, Aberewa Pofi, in possession of the land. Pinamin Panyin requested permission to settle there and make a farm. She found, on trying to do so, that the weeds sprang up very quickly, and also that the soil was very red; hence she called the place Kokofu (red and weedy)." ("Ashanti Law and Constitution", p. 198).
Education
Kokofu is known for the Oppong Memorial Secondary School.second cycle
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institution.
See also
* Bekwai (Ghana parliament constituency)
Bekwai is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Joseph Osei-Owusu is the member of parliament for the constituency. He was elected ...
References
External links
Bekwai Municipal District Official website
Populated places in the Ashanti Region
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