On your way to Cape Coast, the regional capital of Central Region is a town called Mankessim. Here there is round-about with statues of the three founders-priests of Fantes, Oburumankoma, Ɔdapagyan and Oson. But do you know the history of Mankessim? Mankessim is the traditional capital of Fante people. Mankessim means The Big Town. This is so because it was the land in which all the seven sub-ethnic Bɔrbɔr Fante groups, namely Amanfo, Nkusukum, Ekumfi, Abora, Anomabo, Enyan, and Gomoa settled before moving to their present locations. When the Fantes crossed River Pra, leaving their cousins: Wassa and Ahanta people behind to move upward into the interior and southward to the mouth of River Pra close to Shama, they settled at Kwamankesse. From there they moved to Adowagyir, an Etsii settlement. Here they fought and defeated them. The leader of the Adowagyir Etsii was Nana Akraman. After defeating Akraman to flee to Dwoma (Mumford), the Bɔrbɔr Mfantse group occupied Adowagyir and ...