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Tan Date
Tan Date was the leader under whom Abron (Bono) migrants moved west in the late 17th century, escaping the rising power of the Ashanti Empire, and settled around Bondoukou on the border of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast. Abron tradition remembers him as the founder and first king of Gyaman, which grew rich on the trade of the Dyula merchants there.
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