Bono (born Paul David Hewson in 1960) is an Irish musician, activist, and lead singer for the band U2.
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The Mfantsefo or Fante are an Akan people. The Fante people are mainly located in the Central and Western coastal regions of Ghana. Over the last half century, due to fishing expeditions, Fante communities are found as far as Gambia, Liberia and even Angola. Major Fante cities in modern Ghana include Kasoa, Winneba, Agona Swedru, Tarkwa, Oguaa, Edina (Elmina), Mankessim, Sekondi and Takoradi.
Techiman is a city and is the capital of Techiman Municipal and Bono East Region of Ghana. Techiman is a leading market town in South Ghana. Techiman is one of the two major cities and settlements of Bono East region. Techiman is home to West Africa's largest traditional market. Techiman has a settlement population of 104,212 people in 2013. Techiman is located at a historical crossroads of trade routes and the Tano River, and serves as capital of the Techiman Municipal District.
The Brong-Ahafo region was a region in central Ghana. Brong-Ahafo was bordered to the north by the Black Volta river and to the east by the Lake Volta, and to the south by the Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions. The capital of Brong-Ahafo is Sunyani. Brong-Ahafo was created on 14 April 1959 from the then Western Ashanti and named after the dominant and native inhabitants, Akans, Brong and Ahafo. In 2019, as a result of the 2018 Ghanaian new regions referendum, the region was divided into three, namely Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions, and ceased to exist.
The Akan people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. The Akan speak dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Ashanti, Baoulé, Bono, Chakosi, Fante, Kwahu, Sefwi, Wassa, Ahanta and Nzema among others. The Akan subgroups all have cultural attributes in common; most notably the tracing of matrilineal descent in the inheritance of property, and for succession to high political office.
Bono State was a trading state created by the Bono people, located in what is now southern Ghana. Bonoman was a medieval Akan kingdom in what is now Bono, Bono East and Ahafo region respectively named after the and Eastern Ivory Coast. It is generally accepted as the origin of the subgroups of the Akan people who migrated out of the state at various times to create new Akan states in search of gold. The gold trade, which started to boom in Bonoman as early in the 12th century, was the genesis of Akan power and wealth in the region, beginning in the Middle Ages.
Sunyani is the capital town of the Bono Region and the Sunyani Municipal of Ghana. Sunyani had a population of 1,208,649 at the 2021 population and housing census. The city consists mainly of the Bonos other tribes.
The Bono, also called the Brong and the Abron, are an Akan people of West Africa. Bonos are normally tagged Akan piesie or Akandifo of which Akan is a derivative name. Bono is the genesis and cradle of Akans. Bono is one of the largest ethnic group of Akan and are matrilineal people. Bono people speak the Bono Twi of Akan language. Twi language, thus the dialect of Bono is a derivative of a Bono King Nana Twi. In the late fifteenth century, the Bono people founded the Gyaaman kingdom as extension of Bono state in what is now Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Berekum United Football Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Berekum, Bono Region, previously known as Bechem Chelsea Football Club. They compete in the Ghanaian top-flight league called the First Capital Premier League.
Brong Ahafo United is a Ghanaian football Club, based in Sunyani, currently competing in the Ghana Premier League. It was established in 1960 to bring the people of Bono or Brong and Ahafo together through football. The club is also known as Apostles of power soccer. Their long time regional rival is Bofoakwa Tano, a club based in Sunyani as well. Other known clubs in the region are Aduana Stars(two time GPL champions), Berekum Chelsea, Young Apostles(BA United seed), DC United, Nsoatreman, Wamnafo might Royals, and few other clubs not mentioned.
Kintampo United is a Ghanaian professional football team based in the Bono East Region that plays in the 1B Zone of the Ghana Division One League. Zone 1A has seven competing teams from the part of the Ashanti Region, Bono Region, Ahafo Region and the three Northern Regions of Ghana.
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Gabriel Kweku Osei is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Tain Constituency in the Brong-Ahafo Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. Currently, he is the Business Development Officer for the National Service Scheme Head Office.
Kwame Boahene Yeboah-Afari was an educator and a politician. He served in various ministerial portfolios of the first republic including serving as Ghana's first Minister for Agriculture and the first Regional Minister for the Brong Ahafo Region. He also served as a member of parliament for the Sunyani East constituency.
Robert Sarfo-Mensah a Ghanaian politician and member of the Fifth and Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing Asunafo North in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.
Emmaunuel Owusu-Mainu is a Ghanaian educationist and politician. He was the member of parliament for the Atebubu-Amantin Constituency in the fourth and fifth Parliaments of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
Isaac Kwadwo Adjei Mensah was a Ghanaian politician and was the member of parliament for the Techiman North constituency in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. He was a member of parliament in the 2nd and 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana and a Regional Minister for the Brong-Ahafo Region, as well as a Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing.
Prince Oduro-Mensah is a Ghanaian Politician and a member of the Third Parliament of the Fourth Republic Representing the Techiman South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.
Nicholas Appiah Kubi is a Ghanaian Politician and a member of the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing theJaman Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. He represented the Constituency for only one term.
Nicholas K. Adjei Kyeremeh is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Second Parliament of the Fourth Republic representing the Dormaa East Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. He served one term as a Parliamentarian.