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THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF WORAWORA

Worawora is a town in the Biakoye District of the Volta Region, surrounded by a beautiful scenery of mountains. The town is bordered by Kudje at the south,Asato Akan at the East,Apesokubi and the Volta Lake to the north and Tapa Amanya at the west. Through settled in the Volta Region, the Woraworas speak Twi, as a result of their ancestral origin from Kuntanase, near Lake Bosomtwe in Ashanti Region.

HISTORY

This history as told by our elder statesmen states that, in 1731, Nana Opoku Ware I became the King of Asante. This was during the period of Asante’s greatness in War campaigns. It was also around this same period that a lot of migrations of Asante’s occurred .Some of the people of Kuntanase state took part in these migration to settle elsewhere. The reasons for the migrations were varied. Family heads and chiefs led the migrations. One significant fact is that there were no land boundaries in those days as we have now. Boundaries were determined by occupation through conquest.
Our chief Nana TiprekeseBaa led his people who were mostly from the Oyoko clan through bush paths to settle first at Domaakwaa in Denkyira but later left and trekked southward to settle at Agyanoa near Aburi Botanical Gardens in the Eastern Region. Meanwhile, part of them had branched off and settled in at Atibie- Kwahu led by their leader Akora Oko.Nana TwerefourTim also led a group that settled at Kwahu Dukoman and Opanyin Onyina settled at Oyinakrom which has now become Nyakrom.Another group headed farther south and settled at Breman Kuntanase.
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SETTLEMENT AT ABURI

After settling there for almost twelve years, war broke out between the Akyems and the Akwamus. Since the people did not want to take sides, they travelled eastwards, trekking along the Volta River to Nkrofena at Nkonya where they settled.

SETTLEMENT AT NKONYA

Their stay at Nkonya was short lived! After settling there for almost ten years, they fought with the Nkonyas.The cause of the war was that the Nkonyas had a fetish which required the sacrifice of an albino (ofiri) before it could be worshiped. As they did not want to sacrifice any of their albinos, they captured one albino from the Worawora people and sacrificed him to their fetish. This the Oyokos did not take lightky, and took a fight with them, resulting in the death of their warlord, Tiprekese Baah.His nephew, Opoku Frefre took over and lead them to the top of a mountain with a flat top, near the present settlement. They named it Mmosombepo because they planted seven gods that they had carried with them, there!
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SETTLEMENT AT EWAREWARE (WORAWORA)

Traveling for nearly forty years, they decided to stay on top of the mountain and replenish their depleted numbers. Soon they realized their lives were again in danger, as the Chokosi tribe, who were also staying on the Obuguan Hill. North of their settlement, were also very powerful, they could attack and drive them away.
Afariwaa, a very beautiful Worawora woman got married to the of Chokorsi war leaders. She lured her husband, who then revealed the secrets of their prowess. She went to inform the Worawora people and taught them the tricks they “Chokorsis” used to conquer their enemies.
On the night of the Chokorsi festival, all the guards were sleeping as a result of drunkenness. Afariwa crept stealthily and rolled all the big boulders they have been using to kill their enemies into the valley. Their Worawora troops, who had then fortified themselves and were and were hiding under the hill, pounced on the sleeping Chokorsis, fought and defeated them! The Woraworas then drove the Chorkorsi away to the northern parts of Togo. The gallant people of Worawora did not settle on the Obuguan Hill, but took the lands and decided to farm and hunt there.
After staying on top of the Ofeibeposo for over a hundred years and controlling all the lands around them, they called the place “EWAREWARE” meaning a long journey. This name has been corrupted to WORAWORA!

THE PRESBYTERIAN MISSION SETTLEMENT AT WORAWORA…1891

In 1891,the first Basel missionary ,Rev.Nicholas T.Clerk from the Basel Mission at Osu, a Jamaican climbed the Mmosombepo-Fetish Mountain. He did not have it easy converting the people from their known way of worship to Christian worship. It happened that one of the elders’ wives got sick ,and all the seven gods they worshipped could not cure her. As her condition worsened,Rev Clerk asked permission to pray for her, which was granted. After praying continuously for three days, the woman recovered !This miracle drew unto Rev.Clerk ,a large following. He moved down with his first converts, where they built a new settlement called Mission in 1894,which still exist today as the Presbyterian Mission. This is where the Presbyterian schools were built
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