Gyaaman

Gyaaman was an Akan kingdom spanning parts of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast. In the seventeenth century migrants of the Aduana clan moved into the Black Volta basin and established a kingdom centered on Amanvi.

Asante armies defeated Gyaaman in 1740–1741 and reduced it to a tributary. King Kwadwo Adinkra stopped paying tribute in 1817; an Asante invasion followed in 1818, and he was killed. In 1819 Asante made Gyaaman a province and occupied it.