Techiman

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Techiman is the leading market town in Ghana and is, together with Sunyani, one of the two chief cities of the Brong-Ahafo Region. This city of nearly 80,000 is located at a historical crossroads of trade routes and the Tano River, and serves as capital of the Techiman Municipal District.

History

Techiman is the legendary birthplace of all of the Akan peoples.cite web
last = Warren
first = Dennis Michael
title = City of Techiman
work = [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc550/MsC538_warren/WarrenFA.html Warren African Slide and VideoTape Collection]
publisher = Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries
date = posted online 2001
url = http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/techiman.html
accessdate = 2008-06-13] The Fante people, according to their oral tradition, separated from the Akans at Techiman and migrated to found the Mankessim Kingdom in 1252.

After Bono Manso, capital of the Bono state, was taken by the Ashanti Empire in 1723, refugees settled in Techiman and founded the Bono-Techiman state in 1740 under Ashanti sovereignty.

Geography

Economy

Citation
last = Dennis
first = Carolyne
last2 = Peprah
first2 = Ernestina
publication-date = 1995
contribution = Coping with transition through organisation: Techiman Market, Ghana
editor-last = Sweetman
editor-first = Caroline
title = Societies in Transition
series = Oxfam Focus on Gender
publication-place =
publisher = Oxfam
pages = 43–48
isbn = 0855983396]

Politics and government

Transport

Techiman is connected by road to Sunyani and its airport. The city is not yet serviced by the Ghana Railway Corporation, but it has been proposed that a line be extended there. The Tano River is a navigable river.

A study of traffic in the city in March 2007 found a breakdown of 34% for taxis, 31% for pedestrians, 10% for buses and vans, 7% for bicycles, 6% for motorbikes, 5% for cars and 7% for "other" modes of transportation. Of bicyclists, a focus of the study, 49% traveled for work, 18% for school ,14% for recreation and 6% for touring. cite journal | year = 2008 | month = January-March |format= PDF | title = Cycling in Techiman | journal = The CCE Newsletter | volume = 4 | issue = 1-2 | pages = 1 | publisher = Centre for Cycling Expertise | location = Tema, Ghana | url = http://www.centrecycling.org/docs/newsletters/Newsletter.pdf | accessdate = 2008-06-13]

Demographics

The population has grown rapidly in recent decades, doubling between the 1970 and 1984 censuses, and again doubling by the next census in 2000. The recent estimate of 79,547 is nine times the population that the city had in 1960 at Ghana's independence.

Culture

References

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/GH/0/TechimanMbreweja.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 229m]