Talk:Keta

Population

Article says, "Keta is the sixty-thirst most populous settlement in Ghana." Is that sixty-first or sixty-third?? Or a bizarre case of reverse Th-fronting?

Before the Anlo

The article says it was an important trading post from the 14th Century, i.e before the arrival of the Anlo. Is there any information about the people who were here before the Anlo?Leutha (talk) 08:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC) @Leutha:

The Portuguese are the first ones who might have made it a trading port, but that was in the 15th Century. It wasn't until 1471 (15th Century) that the Portuguese reached modern Ghana and set up a trading post at A Mina (Elmina). The Dutch had a trading post at Keta that was sacked and burned in October 1731.(Harms, The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade, page 146) It was replaced by a fort; however, that was destroyed in 1737 (Justesen, Ole (ed.). Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754: 1657-1735. p. 529.). By 1744 the Danish had set a trading post at Keta. The Danish called "Keta" "Qvitta". According to the records of the Danish West India and Guinea Company, the treaty for a Danish "lodge" at Keta was 1744,(Justesen, page 983}}). However Adamson says the Danish trading fort was established at Keta in 1784. Adamson, Paul (2007). Still None the Wiser: A Mid-Century Passage, 1952-1967. p. 120. I suspect that the 1784 date is in error, the Danish "lodge" at Keta had certainly been operating since at least 1744, and although they were still talking about building a fort there in 1752, I don't think it took them thirty more years. About 1752 the Danish mention a previous war at Keta between the Agona (Anlo) and the Ada, which suggests that the Ada may have been the earlier tribe.(Justesen, page 885). However, the Danish say about that same period that the Ada drove off the Auguna (Anlo)(Justesen, page 839). Ada is also a town where the Danish had a "lodge", and seems to have been the chief town of the Ada tribe. The Danish also had a trading station at Ningo. --Bejnar (talk) 20:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Ada, aka "Big Ada", now Ada Foah, was indeed the chief town of the Ada. The Ada were also known as the Adali. For more, see Amate, C. O. C. (1999). The Making of Ada. Accra, Ghana: Woeli. ISBN 978-9964-978-64-8.. For a copy at a library near you, see the list at OCLC, or try interlibrary loan. --Bejnar (talk) 21:08, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

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