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The maps on this site
are designed to illustrate and enhance several other topics, notably history,
land and settlement patterns, and locations. Together, they can be seen
as a separate topic, but are best when used as references in conjuction
with other pages.
Maps:
Descriptions:
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Map of Ghana,
This is an outline of the country of Ghana showing the location of Kwawu
on it.
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Kwawu Historical;
Kwawu developed mainly on the escaprpment, but also had interesting events
on the Afram Plains, north of the Excarpment
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Trade Routes;
Wars and the expansion of the Akan, including Kwawu, was mainly about the
acquisition and control of trading routes through the rainforest.
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Sketch of Kwawu;
The pie shaped distribution of lands around settlements applied to the
whole of Kwau and is sketched here.
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Geology of Kwawu;
A vertical cross section of the escarpment with the lowlands to the south
and the Afram to the north.
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Sketch of Obo;
The map that I constructed in order to make a household survey of Obo
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Central Obo;
The pie shaped land distribution pattern repeats itself in the old section
of Obo focused on the chief's palace and the ancestral stool houses of
the old matrilineages.
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Settlement Patterns.
A diagramme showing the origin and development of the pie shaped pattern.
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Ghana
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Centro de Obo
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Historia
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Kwawu
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Comercio
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Asentamientos
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Geología
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Calles de Obo
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