**Anhwiaso** is a town in the **Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District** of Ghana's **Western North Region**, and it is one of the two towns that give the district its name — the other being Bibiani and Bekwai (Western North's Bekwai, not the Ashanti Bekwai). Anhwiaso sits in the heart of the Sefwi-speaking belt. The people are **Sefwi**, an Akan subgroup, and the traditional area is a recognised Sefwi paramountcy — **Anhwiaso Traditional Area** — with its own Omanhene and a stool that traces deep Akan lineage. The town is close to **Bibiani**, the district capital, which is the bigger commercial centre, and the two are often spoken of together as "Bibiani-Anhwiaso." Economically, this is **cocoa and gold country**. The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai area is one of Ghana's historic cocoa-producing districts, and it also sits on the rich gold belt that runs through the Western North Region — Bibiani in particular is known for its gold mines, which draw labour and trade from surrounding towns like Anhwiaso. Farming (cocoa, plantain, cassava, maize, oil palm) remains the backbone of everyday life for most households. Culturally, Anhwiaso shares the wider Sefwi traditions: the **Sefwi dialect of Akan (Twi)**, Akan naming customs, stool and chieftaincy structures, and the famous **Sefwi Yam Festival** celebrated across the Sefwi areas to mark the new yam harvest. The town also falls within the Sefwi missionary belt — the Sefwi area was one of the last major Akan territories to receive Christian missionaries in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and churches are central to community life today. Administratively, remember the recent change: since **2019**, the Western North Region was carved out of the old Western Region, so Anhwiaso is now in **Western North**, not the old Western Region. Its district, Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai, has its assembly seat at Bibiani. If you're planning a visit or need something specific — the current Omanhene, schools in the town, or how to get there from Kumasi or Takoradi — tell me and I'll go deeper. As the Akan say, *"Yɛn nyinaa yɛ abusua"* — we are all one family; and Anhwiaso, like every Ghanaian town, is a thread in that cloth.