Princes Town or Pokesu is located 5 km east of Fort St. Antonio on Manfro Hill in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region of south Ghana, Africa.

On 1 January 1681, a Brandenburger expedition of two ships commanded by Otto Friedrich von der Groeben arrived in the Gold Coast and began to build a strong fort between Axim and the Cape of Three Points.

By 1717, an Akan merchant, John Canoe, learned that the Prussians were going to sell the fort, part of the Brandenburger Gold Coast colony, to the Dutch.

In protest, he began a resistance that managed to stave off fleets of warships for approximately seven years.

[2] "Junkanoo" festivals, named after John Canoe, such as Mardi Gras are held annually in the coastal outlines of North Carolina, in Jamaica and the Bahamas.