Fomena

Fomena lies in the Adansi country, a district of forest and farmland on the edge of the Asante sphere. Adanse was one of the earliest Akan states, and by one tradition its central authority broke into smaller towns such as Fomena before Asante came to dominate the region. In 1820 the envoy Joseph Dupuis described it as a village of modest size within the Ashanti Empire. Its people cleared forest plots for farming and traded with Kumasi, the Asante capital.