{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Esumeja | area_urban_sq_mi = | population_density_sq_mi = | population_density_km2 = | population_total = | population_note = | population_footnotes = | population_as_of = | area_blank1_sq_mi = | area_blank1_km2 = | area_blank1_title = | area_metro_sq_mi = | area_metro_km2 = | area_urban_km2 = | population_density_metro_km2 = | area_water_percent = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_total_sq_mi = | area_water_km2 = | area_land_km2 = | area_total_km2 = | area_footnotes = | unit_pref = Imperial | area_magnitude = | established_date3 = | population_metro = | population_density_metro_sq_mi = | established_date2 = | coordinates = | website = | blank1_info = | blank1_name = | blank_info = | blank_name = | area_code = | postal_code = | postal_code_type = | elevation_ft = | elevation_m = | elevation_footnotes = | utc_offset_DST = | population_urban = | timezone_DST = | utc_offset = | timezone = | population_density_blank1_sq_mi = | population_density_blank1_km2 = | population_blank2 = | population_blank2_title = Religions | population_blank1 = | population_blank1_title = Ethnicities | population_density_urban_sq_mi = | population_density_urban_km2 = | established_title3 = | established_title2 = | other_name = | shield_size = | dot_mapsize = | image_dot_map = | map_caption1 = | mapsize1 = | image_map1 = | map_caption = | mapsize = | image_map = | blank_emblem_size = | blank_emblem_type = | image_blank_emblem = | image_shield = | dot_x = | seal_size = | image_seal = | flag_size = | image_flag = | image_caption = | imagesize = | image_skyline = | motto = | settlement_type = | nickname = | native_name = | dot_map_caption = | dot_y = | established_date = | government_type = | established_title = | leader_name4 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title3 = | leader_name2 = | leader_title2 = | leader_name1 = | leader_title1 = | leader_name = | leader_title = | government_footnotes = | pushpin_map = Ghana | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name1 = Ashanti Region | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name = 25px Ghana | subdivision_type = Country | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ghana | pushpin_label_position = bottom | footnotes = }} '''Esumeja''','''Asumennya''', '''Assumegya''' or '''Essumeja''' is a town in the Bekwai Municipality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-06 |title=You have no authority to install a chief at Esumeja – Dormaahene tackles Otumfuo again - TV AFRICA NEWS |url=https://tvafricagh.org/2022/05/06/you-have-no-authority-to-install-a-chief-at-esumeja-dormaahene-tackles-otumfuo-again/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127165727/https://tvafricagh.org/2022/05/06/you-have-no-authority-to-install-a-chief-at-esumeja-dormaahene-tackles-otumfuo-again/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Esumeja in Ashanti Region - AfricaLocal.net |url=https://www.africalocal.net/GH/Ashanti-Region/Cities/Esumeja/ |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=www.africalocal.net |archive-date=2022-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920163724/https://www.africalocal.net/GH/Ashanti-Region/Cities/Esumeja/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 February 2021 |title=A/R: Four children rescued from suspected kidnapper |url=https://www.modernghana.com/news/1060043/ar-four-children-rescued-from-suspected-kidnappe.html |access-date=7 May 2024 |website=Modern Ghana}}</ref> In the early nineties, Odeneho Nana Oduro Numapau II was the Paramount Chief of the Esumeja Traditional Area.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 January 2016 |title=Court throws out Chieftaincy Minister's case against leaders of African-American community |url=https://www.modernghana.com/news/670990/court-throws-out-chieftaincy-ministers-case-against-leaders.html |access-date=7 May 2024 |website=Modern Ghana}}</ref> As at 2010, Nana Adwoa Obro Pokuaa Nyankronpon was the Queenmother of the town.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freiku |first=Sebastian R. |date=26 February 2010 |title=Ghana: New Twist to Esumeja Chieftaincy Dispute |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201002260506.html |access-date=7 May 2024 |website=All Africa}}</ref>
== History == Oral traditions among the Akan identify the cradle of their early evolution in the forest zone between the Pra and Offin rivers, north of the Twisa Hills, corresponding to the modern Adanse and Amansie areas.{{sfn|Abaka|Kwarteng|2021|p=112}} From this region, the Akan dispersed in several directions—to the coast, eastward to Akyem and Kwahu, northward to Ahafo and Bono, and westward to Gyaman and Sehwi.{{sfn|Abaka|Kwarteng|2021|p=112}} Oral accounts hold that some of the clans of the Asante nation emerged from a hole at Asantemanso near Asumegya, specifically the Oyoko and Aduana lineages.{{sfn|Abaka|Kwarteng|2021|p=112}} These traditions situate Asumegya Asantemanso as a sacred ancestral site central to Asante origins, reinforcing its role in the broader narrative of Akan state formation in the Pra-Offin basin.{{sfn|Abaka|Kwarteng|2021|p=112}}
== See also == * Asantemanso * Adansemanso * Adanse * Asante Empire * Abusua * Aduana * Oyoko
== References == {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Abaka |editor1-first=Edmund |editor2-last=Kwarteng |editor2-first=Kwame Osei |year=2021 |title=The Asante World |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=London |isbn=9781351184052 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Asante_World/3HsqEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0}} * {{cite book |last=Prempeh |first=Otumfuo Nana Osei Agyeman |editor-last=McCaskie |editor-first=Tom C. |year=2022 |title=History of Ashanti by Otumfuo, Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II |series=Fontes Historiae Africanae |location=Liverpool |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9781805960515|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Ashanti_by_Otumfuo_Nana_Osei/-KJwEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |access-date=19 October 2025}}
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