Goaso

Goaso stands in the forest country of Ahafo, among gently rolling lands watered by the Tano and other rivers. Oral tradition remembers an earlier settlement, Goaso Krodadaamu, beside the Goa River; its inhabitants later moved uphill to the site of the town. In the eighteenth century much of Ahafo was conquered and incorporated into Asante, and chiefs associated with Kumasi established settlements in the conquered lands. Goaso's traditions thus belong to a region shaped by both local settlement and the expansion of the Asante kingdom.