This group includes the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Ashanti, the Baoulé, the Brong/Abron, the Fante and the Nzema peoples covering the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Western, Central, and Eastern Regions, as well as portions of the midsection of the Volta Region, and into North Ghana.
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With the enthronement of the Akan/Akyem King in 1773 to the throne of Akropong alongside the throne of Akuapem, the kingdom became a double state known as the Akropong–Akuapem Kingdom.
Asiedu Yirenkyi (born 1946, Akropong) is a Ghanaian playwright, the author of Kivuli and Other Plays.
He was educated at the Basel Mission School in Accra from 1889 to 1896, and then at the Theological Seminary and Training College at Akropong, Akwapim District.
From 1926 Amu was transferred on promotion to Presbyterian Mission Seminary at Akropong on the recommendation of the Synod Committee of the Eʋe Presbyteria Hame.
George Darko (born 1951, Akropong) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit "Ako ti brofo" (Even Parrots speak English), which was very popular in the early 1980s.
In July 1954, he married Victoria Boohemaa Addo from Akropong, Akwapim.
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His parents were Seth Fianko — a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Kubease, Larteh, Ghana — and Agnes Fianko (née Reynolds) — also a teacher and a descendant of the royal family of Akropong, Akwapim, Ghana.
The Odwira Festival is celebrated by the people of Akropong-Akuapim, Aburi, Larteh and Mamfi in the Eastern Region.
Later in the summer, he sailed for Africa and established a crown plantation, Frederiksnopel, near Akropong in the fertile and cool Akwapim Hills reminiscent of the Mediterranean, purchasing the land from the Akwapim chief, Nana Obuobi Atiemo, on behalf of the King Christian VII of Denmark.