Official Name: | Old Tafo Akyem |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Ghana |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Old Tafo in Eastern Region |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ghana |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Abuakwa North Municipal |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Demonym |
Timezone: | GMT |
Timezone Dst: | GMT |
Coordinates: | 6.2333°N -24°W |
Elevation M: | 207 |
Old Tafo is the oldest town in the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional area in the Abuakwa North Municipality in the Eastern Region of south Ghana.[1] It is the home of the famous Ohum Festival, the only festival widely celebrated by the people of Akyem Abuakwa. It houses the Ohum dua, an over 500-year-old spiritual tree that does not wither; and the Ohum shrine where the mighty deity Agyempremu Kofi resides. Old Tafo shares border with New Tafo where the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) is located.http://www.crig.org.gh/administration.php It also shares a border with Osiem, where the Memeneda Gyidi Church is located, founded by Opanin Samuel Brako.https://samuelbrako-k.blogspot.com/2020/02/samuel-brako-founder-of-gyidi-saviour.html[2]
Old Tafo is known for WBM Zion Secondary School School.[3] The school is a second cycle institution.[4] WMB Zion Secondary School.