DISTRICT PROFILE
Kwahu Afram Plains North District is part of the thirty-three (33) districts in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The district started as Kwahu North until 1988 when it became a Sub-district of the Kwahu District Council. In 1989, the district was inaugurated and established Donkorkrom as its District Capital. The district gained its legal status with the Legislative Instrument LI 1415 of 1993 which gave it the name Afram Plains. The legislative Instrument LI 1826 however, changed its name from Afram Plains to Kwahu North District which is now divided into Kwahu Afram Plains North and South.
Kwahu Afram Plains North has a total land area of approximately 2,341.3 km2. The district is bounded by five districts namely, Kwahu Afram Plains South to the south, to the east with the Volta River, to the west with two Districts in the Ashanti Region precisely the Sekyere Afram Plains and Asante-Akim North Districts, to the north with two districts in the Brong Ahafo Region namely Sene and Atebubu.
The population of the district according to the 2021 population and housing census stands at 66,555 (35,567 males and 30,988 females) with an annual growth rate of 2.1%.
There are a total of forty-four (44) health facilities in the district. These include one (1) Hospital (Presbyterian Hospital), Four (4) health centers (1-CHAG and 3-GHS), one (1) RCH, and thirty- eight (38) CHPS.
The district lies within the savannah vegetation zone comprising the savannah transitional zone and savannah woodland. Few forest reserves cover about 120.8sq km. The forest reserves constitute about 15 percent of the entire surface area of the district. Some commercial tree species contained in the forest are Milicia excelsa (Odum), Sterculia rhinopetala (Wawa), Terminalia superba (Ofram), Khaya ivoriensis (African mahogany) and Antiaris toxicaria (Kyenkyen).
There are two main entrances into the Kwahu Afram Plains North District by road. Namely through Nkawkaw-Kwahu Tafo and Adawso from where the three-kilometer-wide Afram River is crossed to Ekye-Amanfrom by ferry. The second entrance is through Kpandu-Torkor in the Volta Region from where the Volta Lake is again crossed to Agordeke.
The predominant ethnic group is Ewes followed by Akans with many other smaller ethnic groups represented. The major economic activity of the people in the district is agriculture, mainly food crop farming, livestock rearing, and fishing.
