How Some Communities in Accra Got Their Names.

The Basel missionaries from Scotland and England formed a trading company called United Trading Company (UTC). On the starboard side of UTC is a community called "Adjabeng" were the Freemasons Hall and former UT Bank are located

The Usher Fort at Jamestown had a 3-storey building opposite it that housed the former P&B supermarket. During colonial times, people from Abola, Asere, Gbese, etc all shopped from that supermarket.

That building was owned by a certain man called Mantse Ankrah, who was by then a sub-chief of Otublohum. Mantse Ankrah was a slave trader and he sold his slaves to Dutch slave traders at Usher Fort.

Usher Fort used to be called Fort Creve Coeur. The Fort was bought by the British from the Dutch when they took over governance of the Gold Coast. The then British governor was called Governor Usher and hence the name Usher Fort.

Mantse Ankrah had a son called Adjabeng. Actually, Adjabeng is a distortion of the name "Agya Obeng". The people from Otublohum have Akan ancestry from Denkyira and so that accounts for their Akan names such as Ankrah, Adjabeng, Ofei, Otobea, Darko, etc.

Currently, Otublohum has Akwamu, Denkyira and Juabeng gates. After the abolishment of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade in 1807, former slaves from a place called Tabon in Brazil were added to the Otublohum people. Most of these former slaves were tailors and fashion designers.

The famous Dan Morton Tailoring family and the Azumah Nelson family are descendants of former saves from Tabon.
Adjabeng had his house located at the current COCOBOD offices and that's where his father, Mantse Ankrah kept his saves so the white slave traders could do a selection

The selected slaves were then sent to the current Salaga market were they were bathed before been transfered to Usher Fort for onward Transportation to Europe and the Americas. So the Salaga market used to be a slave transit port.

At the advent of the Christian missionaries, the churches such as the Basel mission, Methodist, Catholic Church etc, decided to have a picnic around Adjabeng during Easter as a form of entertainment to win souls for their churches.

Since the Gas are predominantly fishermen and were/are still not interested in leaving the coast, the Yorubas from Allada in Nigeria and the Hausas from Northern Ghana started trading around Adabraka which is adjacent to Adjabeng.

Adabraka in the hausa language means "Reduce the Price" and that's where Adabraka got its name. So when you go to the neighborhoods of the current Adabraka market, it is predominantly habited by Muslims.

Just on the port side of Adabraka is a community called Kokomlemle.
Kokomlemle had so many frogs and the Gas in Gbese, Asere and nearby communities started called the place "Kokodene tumlemle" to wit, a "jumping frog" which has now become Kokomlemle.