The Asutifi area — today part of the Ahafo Region of Ghana — is a classic forest-belt Akan landscape of old stool towns, farming villages and mining camps, historically organised around the Asutifi Traditional Council and its principal towns of Kenyasi and Ntotroso. **The main traditional settlements** - **Kenyasi (Kenyasi No. 1 and Kenyasi No. 2)** — the seat of the Asutifi Traditional Area and home of the Omanhene's palace. Kenyasi No. 1 is the older, stool town; Kenyasi No. 2 grew beside it, largely as a result of the Newmont Ahafo mine and the influx of workers and settlers from the 2000s onward. - **Ntotroso** — the other great Asutifi town, with its own divisional chief under the Asutifi paramountcy. It sits close to the Ahafo mine's plant site and has been at the centre of land, compensation and resettlement discussions. - **Hwidiem** — a historic Asutifi town and a major market and lorry station on the Goaso–Kumasi corridor; it has its own traditional authority and is a gateway into the Asutifi North district. - **Goaso** — the administrative capital of Asunafo North and the biggest commercial town in the wider Ahafo area, closely tied to Asutifi through trade, chieftaincy and family links. - **Wamahinso, Gyedu, Kensere, Nkaseim, Dadiesoaba, Biaso, Wioso, Acherensua, Anyimah, Kwakubia, Asumura, Mehame, Yamfo-adjacent settlements** — the smaller farming and mining communities scattered through Asutifi North and Asutifi South, many of them founded as cocoa and food-crop villages and later swollen by small-scale gold mining (galamsey). **How they are organised** The Asutifi Traditional Area is headed by a paramount chief (Omanhene) based at Kenyasi, with divisional and sub-chiefs at Ntotroso, Hwidiem and the surrounding towns. Each town has its own stool, its own Odikro or chief, and its own clan (abusua) structure — Akan matrilineal descent, with the usual Asante/Bono-Ahafo institutions: the ohene, the ohemaa (queenmother), the linguist (okyeame), and the asafo companies that organise youth, festivals and communal labour. **Economy and identity** The area's traditional economy is cocoa, plantain, cassava, maize and oil palm, on stool and family land held in trust by the chiefs. Since the mid-2000s, gold has reshaped everything: Newmont's Ahafo mine at Kenyasi/Ntotroso, plus a dense spread of small-scale mining, has turned quiet farming villages into busy, multi-ethnic settlements. That is why Asutifi today is a place where old stool towns and new mining communities sit side by side — and why chieftaincy, land and compensation remain live, everyday matters. **Culture** The people are predominantly Akan (Asante and Bono-Ahafo stock), speaking Twi — specifically the Asante/Bono dialect continuum. Festivals such as the yam festival and traditional durbars at Kenyasi and Ntotroso bring the towns together, and the Asutifi Traditional Council remains the recognised custodian of custom, land and dispute resolution across the area. If you want, I can go deeper on any one of these — the Kenyasi stool history, the Newmont resettlement towns, or the full list of Asutifi North and Asutifi South communities.