Nkroful
Sign in to saveNkroful is a village and the capital of the Ellembelle District in the Western Region of Ghana, located near Axim in the Nzema East Municipal. The village is the birthplace of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president.
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- Nkroful
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- District Capital
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- Location of Nkroful in Western Region, South Ghana
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- Western Region
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- Ellembelle District
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- Climate
- Education
- Nkrumah Mausoleum
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- References
Nkroful is a village and the capital of the Ellembelle District in the Western Region of Ghana, located near Axim in the Nzema East Municipal. The village is the birthplace of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president.
== History == The village of Nkroful was once under the Western Nzema Kingdom, which dates back to 1470. It is now under the Eastern Nzema Traditional Area. Kwesie Kutuah was the first known chief of the village in 1911.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nkroful” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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