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Ameyaw Kwaakye
Ameyaw Kwaakye is a king of the Akan state of Bono, in the forest-savanna borderland of present-day Ghana, remembered in oral tradition. Tradition associates his reign with an expansion of gold mining, the source of Bono's wealth and of its trade with the north. His exact dates are uncertain, and he is known mainly from traditions later preserved in Techiman.
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