Abutia
Abutia , also Abutia Kingdom , is a tribal principality or a traditional area as a term from the British colonial times in West Africa , in the east of today's Ghana in the southern half of the Volta region .
history
Abutia is a traditional tribal region in what is now Ghana. The area was the colonial period from 1884 to 1916 part of Togoland as German colony and later British colony from 1916 to 1945. Due to the independence of Ghana on March 6, 1957 Abutia part of the Republic of Ghana .
In 1992 the parliament issued a decree in the constitution of the Republic of Ghana, in which the traditional areas regained their cultural sovereignty ( sub-national monarchy ). This was modified in a special decree in 2008. The current Togbe (tribal leader) has been Togbe Abutia Kodzo Gidi V since 1998.
Location and territory
The traditional tribal area of Abutia is geographically between 6.33˚ N and 6.93˚ north latitude and 0.17˚ and 0.53˚ east longitude. The area is bordered to the north by the Adaklu District and Afadjato Area, to the south by the Adaklu District, to the west by the South Dayi District and to the east by the Ho Municipal and the Republic of Togo . The area covers a size of 1,002.79 km².
Cities and regions
Today's cities and regions of Abutia are:
- Agbagyi
- Agorve
- Aframcopes
- Agric
- Amesinyacope
- Anyinawasi
- Argordeke
- Avetakpo
- Awakpeta
- Bator
- Buluonyibe
- Dalor
- Dangbe
- Dzanyodake
- Forsime
- Gbetekpo
- Gbetekpomanu
- Hlorve
- Kissifli
- Kloe
- Kpeteho
- Kpogadzi
- Kpolukope
- Kpota
- Kwanta Awudomi
- Togbave
- Tedeafenu
- Tedeafenu-Volo
- Tegbleve
- Teti
- Tsauvenu
- Tsili (Kyito)
- Megame
- Norris
- Noanyikbe
- Sebekope
- Vohu
- Wodome
The cities are Teti, Agove and Kloe.
National park
The Kalakpa Resource Reserve is a national park in Abutia. It is located in the southeast of the Abutia Hills Forest Reserve between 6 ° 18 'and 6 ° 28' north latitude and 0 ° 17 'and 0 ° 30' east longitude and thus in the traditional tribal areas of Abutia and Adaklu . The Kalakpa River divides Abutia from Adaklu. The area of the national park measures 325 km² and is mainly covered with tree and savannah vegetation, mainly dry Borassus Combretum forest area.
Literature (selection)
- Michel Verdon: Re-defining pre-colonial Ewe polities: the case of Abutia ; Africa , 50 (3), pages 280-292. [2]
- Michel Verdon: Divorce in Abutia , Africa, 52 (4), pages 48-66. [3]
- Michel Verdon: The Structure of Titled Offices among the Abutia Ewe , Africa, 49 (2), 159-171. [4]
- Ayipey Patricia: A Preliminary Archaeological Investigation of Mountain Agbenu, Abutia, Ghana PDF , Chapter 1.5 The Contemporary Setting and Settlement History of Abutia
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Anne-Sophie Arnold: Reports of an excursion to southern Ghana
- ^ A b Michel Verdon: The Structure of Titled Offices among the Abutia Ewe , Extract
- ^ History of Ghana
- ↑ Ghana's independence
- ↑ Constitution of the Republic of Ghana ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Republic of Ghana ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ayipey Patricia: A Preliminary Archaeological Investigation of Mountain Agbenu, Abutia, Ghana PDF , page 10
- ↑ Michel Verdon: Re-defining pre-colonial Ewe polities: the case of Abutia Extract
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Kalakpa Resource Reserve
- ↑ Kalakpa Resource Reserve, Ghana Expeditions ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kalakpa Resource Reserve, African Bird Club
