Fetu Kingdom
Fetu Kingdom Effutu | |||||||
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| Status | Kingdom | ||||||
| Capital | Effutu | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
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Fetu or Effutu was a kingdom in what is now southern Ghana, specifically in today's central region. The towns of Elmina and Cape Coast was originally built on Fetu land.[1][2] This kingdom has historically withstood many wars and defended it territories from the neighboring Fante Confederacy mostly through forming alliances with states such as Eguafo and Dutch. Majority of these wars were fought in the early 17th century.[3] Fetu had equally produced remnant groups such as Winneba and Mumford, both located in Central Region. Another group called Nyangbo(Batrugbu) in today's Volta region are also believed to come from the Fetu Kingdom. All these mentioned groups belong the Guan ancestry. Guans are believed to be Ghana's earliest settlers.
Sources
[edit]- ^ DeCorse, Christopher. "A Tale of Two Polities: Socio-Political Transformation on the Gold Coast in the Atlantic World".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Shumway, Rebecca (2011). "The Fante Shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 44 (1): 27–44. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 23046842.
- ^ Law, Robin (2012). "Fante Expansion Reconsidered: Seventeenth-Century Origins". Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (14): 41–78. ISSN 0855-3246. JSTOR 43855021.
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