Fetu Kingdom

Fetu Kingdom
Effutu
Fetu Kingdom Effutu
Status	Kingdom
Capital	Effutu
Government	Monarchy
	Succeeded by
Fante Confederacy

Last updated February 08, 2025

Fetu or Effutu was a kingdom in what is now southern Ghana. The towns of Elmina and Cape Coast was originally built on Fetu land.^[1]^[2] By the early 1700s the kingdom was under the influence of the neighboring Fante Confederacy after having fought several wars in the previous century.^[3]

Sources

↑ DeCorse, Christopher. "A Tale of Two Polities: Socio-Political Transformation on the Gold Coast in the Atlantic World".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ Shumway, Rebecca (2011). "The Fante Shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 44 (1): 27–44. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 23046842.
↑ Law, Robin (2012). "Fante Expansion Reconsidered: Seventeenth-Century Origins". Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (14): 41–78. ISSN 0855-3246. JSTOR 43855021.

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[1] DeCorse, Christopher. "A Tale of Two Polities: Socio-Political Transformation on the Gold Coast in the Atlantic World".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[2] Shumway, Rebecca (2011). "The Fante Shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 44 (1): 27–44. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 23046842.

[3] Law, Robin (2012). "Fante Expansion Reconsidered: Seventeenth-Century Origins". Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana (14): 41–78. ISSN 0855-3246. JSTOR 43855021.

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