Saltpond
Coordinates: 5 ° 12 ′ N , 1 ° 4 ′ W
Saltpond is a fishing town on the Gulf of Guinea in the Mfantsiman District of the Central Region of Ghana . The place has about 21,000 inhabitants and is 20 kilometers east of Cape Coast . Like many places on the coast of Ghana, Saltpond also has an acan name : Akyemfo . Saltpond has a hotel and a district hospital.
The majority of the inhabitants of Saltpond belong to the Akan people of the Fanti . Their tradition says that they originally migrated here from Techiman in the interior of Ghana. In Saltpond, on the last Saturday in August, Odambea , the “Emigrant Festival ”, is celebrated in honor of this event. Life before emigration is re-enacted as a street theater.
Since deposits of kaolin are mined in the area , clay and ceramic goods are also produced in Saltpond. The large Saltpond Ceramics Factory located here , which in its heyday in the 1970s employed up to 200 people, is currently struggling with economic problems. There are also deposits of 581,000 tons of the light metal beryllium near Saltpond , and crude oil has been extracted since 1978, 12 kilometers off its coast .
The United Gold Coast Convention , the original party of Kwame Nkrumah , the first president of later Ghana, was founded here on August 4, 1947.
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