Krobo people

The Krobo are a farming people who occupy Accra Plains, Akuapem Mountains and the Afram Basin.

The two Krobo traditional areas were originally known as "Nɔwe" that is Mănyă, meaning "ones home", and Nyέwe (Yilɔ).

The resident Krobo started calling them the derogatory term "Wa yilɔ", meaning "we told you we don't eat this".

During the 19th century they were one of the small states of the Gold Coast in the formative stages of political and cultural development.

After the middle of the 19th century they became economically and politically one of the most important groups in the country because of their dominant role in commercial production of export crops as well as beading.

The place of their split was renamed "Lɔlɔvɔ", an Ewe term meaning "Love is finished (ended)".

After the split, the Krobo people pressed on towards the west until they saw a 1,108-feet-high mountain with a gorge (valley) dividing it into two unequal sections.

In fact the name "Krobo" is of Akan origin and is derived from the term "Kro-obo-so-Foɔ", meaning "Town of rock/mountain dwellers".

In fact the Krobos won many wars by simply rolling boulders down the mountain – which would prevent the enemy from coming up and kill many of them in the process.

However, this proved a problem for the colonial Government as the people were very hard to monitor and therefore control from their mountain settlements.

Many reports came back that the seclusion of the mountain allowed certain warrior cults to be practised and laws to be broken (e.g. only burying your dead in the cemetery) without repercussions.