Okyeman History

Akyem Abuakwa, like all Akan nation-states and tribes, inherit properties and stools through their Maternal clan, except where a personal WILL, affecting the person's personally acquired property has been made in the presence of his family and a form of customary rites have been performed, before such a WILL is accepted as valid by the family. The practice excludes Stools in any form in the Akan states. The clan which has ruled and continues to rule in both Akyem Abuakwa and Akwapim paramountcy is the ASONA clan of the ancestry of NANA KUNTUNKUNUNKU I, "Odiahene Kan" (first King) of Akyem Abuakwa.

1. Nana Kunutunkununku I was the founder and the first ruler as the King of Akyem Abuakwa after the collapse of and break away from the Adansi Kingdom. Succession to the Akem Abuakwa Paramount Stool after Nana Kuntunkununku I were as follows:

1400-1500 AD
2. Nana Apeaning Kwaforo Amoah
3. Nana Damenera
4. Nana Pobi Asomaning
5. Nana Oduro
6. Nana Boakye I
7. Nana Boakye Manu II
8. Nana Agyekum Adu Owurae
9. Nana Boakye Mensah III
10. Nana Agyekum Adu Oworae II
11. Nana Agyekum Adu Oworae III
12. Nana Amankwatia

The above Kings of Akyem Abuakwa ruled in Adansi, as well as after the fall of Adansi during the movement south eastwards across the River Pra. These reigns and the "exodus", as already noted above, took place around 1500 AD. From that period up to 1733 AD, the following kings ruled in Abuakwa after driving the Akwamus out of the areas they were then occupying; events which have already been alluded to somewhere in this history.