Techiman
Coordinates: 7 ° 35 ′ N , 1 ° 56 ′ W
Techiman (also Takyiman, Tekyiman, Tekyiman-Brong ) is the capital of the Bono East region in Ghana (West Africa). The city is located about 100 kilometers north of Kumasi on the Tano River and had 67,241 inhabitants in 2010, which is roughly a three-fold increase since the 1984 census (25,264 inhabitants). Techiman is also the capital of the Techiman Municipal District .
history
According to the oral tradition of the Fante , this people migrated to the coast from the Techiman region around 1300.
It is certain that 400 years later, after the conquest of Bono Manso , the capital of the Kingdom of Bono by the Ashanti in 1723, many residents of Bono Mansu fled to Techiman and founded the Bono Tekyiman state around 1740 under the suzerainty of the Ashanti, which in included about the area of the old bono empire.
Population development
The following overview shows the population by area since the 1970 census.
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 12,068 |
| 1984 | 25,264 |
| 2000 | 56,187 |
| 2010 | 67.241 |
religion
Since December 28, 2007 Techiman has been the seat of a Catholic diocese , Suffragan of the Kumasi ecclesiastical province , which was established from parts of the Sunyani and Konongo- Mampong dioceses . 79,645 Catholics with 695,826 inhabitants live on 22,400 km². The first bishop is Dominic Nyarko Yeboah.
Culture
In 2009 the foundation stone was laid for a cultural center in which the traditions and customs of the bono are to be maintained.
Techiman is celebrating the regional Apoo Festival - in 2009 for the first time in a few years because of a bereavement in the tribal royal house of the Bono . Apoo takes place in April / May and is a kind of carnival, during which men dress up as women (and vice versa). Local and national authorities are jokingly but relentlessly confronted with popular opinion; cases of corruption are particularly denounced. However, it is also about reconciliation: Family feuds are preferably settled during the Apoo. The highlight of the Apoo is the pageant of the King ( Omanhene ) the Techiman Bono through the city.
In August - at the end of the first rainy season - the Yams Festival is celebrated, a kind of harvest festival.
sons and daughters of the town
- Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi (* 1945), university professor and politician
swell
- ↑ Ghana: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2008 p. 742 and L'Osservatore Romano (German weekly edition) No. 1/2008 v. January 4, 2008 p. 6