# Akassa

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{{Short description|Town and settlement in Nigeria}}
{{for|the language|Akassa language}}
{{Use Nigerian English|date=January 2023}}
[[File:Akassa on a John Bartholomew & Co. map published c. 1914 (part).jpg|thumbnail|right|Akassa (at the bottom) on a [John Bartholomew & Co.](/source/John_Bartholomew_%26_Co.) map published c. 1914.]]
thumbnail|right|British stamps used in 1898 at Akassa by the Royal Niger Company.
'''Akassa,''' is an [Ijaw](/source/Ijaw_people) town at the southernmost tip of [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria)  in [Bayelsa State](/source/Bayelsa_State)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bayelsa State Government – The Glory of all Lands |url=https://bayelsastate.gov.ng/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |language=en-US}}</ref> where the [Nun River](/source/Nun_River) [estuary](/source/estuary) meets the [Atlantic Ocean](/source/Atlantic_Ocean).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nun River {{!}} river, Nigeria|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Nun-River|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> It has a lighthouse that has stood since 1910, [Akassa Lighthouse](/source/Akassa_Lighthouse).<ref>{{cite web |title=Since 1910, a Lighthouse in the Creeks |url=https://folio.ng/since-1910-a-lighthouse-in-the-creeks/ |website=Folio Nigeria |accessdate=17 August 2020}}</ref>

The [proximity](/source/Distance) of Akassa to the Atlantic <ref>{{Cite web |title=World Edition |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}}</ref> has made it a traditional trading site in [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria) and during [British colonial](/source/British_colonial) years it was the site of an outpost of the [Royal Niger Company](/source/Royal_Niger_Company). [Tax](/source/Tax)es imposed by the company on local peoples caused the [settlement](/source/Settlement_hierarchy) at Akassa to be [attacked in 1895](/source/Frederick_William_Koko_Mingi_VIII_of_Nembe).<ref>"Royal Niger Company" in ''[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)'', Online Library Edition, 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.</ref>

In the heart of the [Niger Delta](/source/Niger_Delta),<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-27 |title=Niger Delta Avengers threaten return, vow to crash economy |url=https://guardian.ng/news/niger-delta-avengers-threaten-return-vow-to-crash-economy/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2022-03-10 |newspaper=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian_(Nigeria))|language=en-US}}</ref> [habitation](/source/human_settlement) in the general region is sandwiched between [salt water](/source/salt_water) and the [brackish water](/source/brackish_water) of [mangrove swamp](/source/mangrove_swamp)s and most locals make their living from fishing or small scale trading, or by providing services to multi-national oil companies<ref>{{Cite web |title=Company - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms |url=https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/company |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=Vocabulary.com |language=en-US}}</ref> active in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mangrove destruction by oil in Niger Delta {{!}} WRM in English|url=https://wrm.org.uy/articles-from-the-wrm-bulletin/section1/mangrove-destruction-by-oil-in-niger-delta/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=wrm.org.uy}}</ref> There are few roads and no electricity. Health and educational facilities <ref>{{Cite web |title=Facilitate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms |url=https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/facilitate |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Vocabulary.com |language=en-US}}</ref> are few and most people do not have access to clean water.

More recently, the Akassa Development <ref>{{Cite web |title=Development - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms |url=https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/development |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=Vocabulary.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Foundation was formed in conjunction with [Pro-Natura International](/source/Pro-Natura_International), [Statoil](/source/Statoil) and [BP](/source/BP) to build local capacity.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/325313.stm The Akassa approach] by John Egan, [BBC News](/source/BBC_News), 22 April 1999.</ref><ref>[http://www.statoil.com/AnnualReport2008/en/Sustainability/Society/Pages/5-6-3-3-3_CommunityDevelopmentInNigeria.aspx Community development in Nigeria. Akassa: Community development through empowerment] ''Statoil Annual Report 2008'', Statoil, 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201603/http://www.statoil.com/AnnualReport2008/en/Sustainability/Society/Pages/5-6-3-3-3_CommunityDevelopmentInNigeria.aspx Archived here.]</ref>

==Climate==
Akassa has a [tropical rainforest climate](/source/tropical_rainforest_climate) ([Köppen](/source/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification) ''Af'') bordering upon the more typical southern Nigeria [tropical monsoon climate](/source/tropical_monsoon_climate) (''Am'') with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.<ref>{{Cite web|title=tropical rainforest {{!}} Climate, Animals, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/tropical-rainforest|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>
{{Weather box
|width = auto
| location = Akassa
| metric first = Yes
| single line  = Yes
| temperature colour = pastel
| Jan high C = 31.1
| Feb high C = 31.7
| Mar high C = 31.9
| Apr high C = 31.7
| May high C = 31.0
| Jun high C = 30.0
| Jul high C = 28.5
| Aug high C = 28.4
| Sep high C = 28.9
| Oct high C = 29.5
| Nov high C = 30.5
| Dec high C = 30.8
| Jan mean C = 26.9
| Feb mean C = 27.6
| Mar mean C = 27.9
| Apr mean C = 27.8
| May mean C = 27.1
| Jun mean C = 26.4
| Jul mean C = 25.3
| Aug mean C = 25.3
| Sep mean C = 25.6
| Oct mean C = 26.1
| Nov mean C = 26.7
| Dec mean C = 26.9
| year mean C =
| Jan low C = 22.7
| Feb low C = 23.5
| Mar low C = 24.0
| Apr low C = 23.9
| May low C = 23.2
| Jun low C = 22.8
| Jul low C = 22.1
| Aug low C = 22.3
| Sep low C = 22.4
| Oct low C = 22.7
| Nov low C = 23.0
| Dec low C = 23.0

|rain colour = green
|Jan rain mm = 64
|Feb rain mm = 103
|Mar rain mm = 171
|Apr rain mm = 261
|May rain mm = 381
|Jun rain mm = 602
|Jul rain mm = 491
|Aug rain mm = 284
|Sep rain mm = 494
|Oct rain mm = 417
|Nov rain mm = 193
|Dec rain mm = 80
|source 1 = Climate-Data.org<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://en.climate-data.org/location/380630/
|title = Climate: Akassa
|publisher=Climate-Data.org
|accessdate = August 8, 2020}}</ref>
}}

==See also==
*[Akassa Tribe](/source/Akassa_tribe)

==References==
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Category:Ijaw
Category:Populated places in Bayelsa State
Category:Bayelsa State

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