The Agricultural System of the Manya-Krobo of the Gold Coast

• Published in: Africa
• Main Author: Field, M. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1943
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Anthropology; Geography, Planning and Development; Craggy Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1156383; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0001972000054887

Opening Paragraph The Manya-Krobo are one of the eight groups comprising the Adangme-speaking peoples who inhabit the Shai Plain between the River Volta and the Accra Plain. Until about 1890 the Krobo head-quarters were on the Krobo Hill, a rocky fastness which rises abruptly like a craggy island out of the perfectly flat plain. They have now abandoned this hill and made their head-quarters in the town of Odumase near the foot.