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Fort Apollonia

Name: Fort Apollonia
Address: Western Region-Takoradi-Nzema, Beyin, 0233, GH
Telephone: +233-3321 32529
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The seaside overlooking Beyin W/R Ghana is Fort Apollonia. Originally built by the British between 1765 & 1771, to ward off Dutch colonial ambitions.
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Fort Apollonia, Beyin (1768)

Until 1670, there was no fort west of the River Ankobra in Beyin (now in the Western Region of Ghana), except for the temporary French fort at Assini. All goods – gold and slaves – were brought to the coast, where captains of all nationalities haggled fervently for it. To ward off Dutch colonial ambitions which had led to intermittent warfare in the Nzema country (Apo

llonia), and to facilitate trade, the Nzema Chief Amenihyia granted the English Committee of Merchants permission to build a fort at Beyin on an elevated platform known as Cape Apollonia. In 1766, the quest for building materials began; construction ensued two years later on the last fort in the Gold Coast to be built by the English. The name of the fort was first bestowed on the area by a Portuguese explorer who first caught sight of the place on St. Apollonia’s Day. The abolition of the slave trade diminished the economic importance of the fort, and hence it was abandoned in 1819. It was transferred to the Dutch in 1868 as part of the 1867 exchange of forts agreement between the British and the Dutch. The Dutch renamed it in honour of their monarch Willem III and held it until 1872, when it reverted to the British. The fort was bombarded by a British gunboat in 1873, during a British attack on Beyin on account of its coalition with the Asante Kingdom. The fort fell to ruins. It was rehabilitated in the 1960s by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and was used as a rest house. Fort Apollonia houses the Museum of Nzema Culture and History, which was opened in 2010.

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The British constructed Fort Apollonia between 1765 and 1771 when a Nzema Chief, Nana Amehyia Kpanyinli granted the English Committee of Merchants permission to build a fort at Beyin on an elevated platform known as Cape Apollonia.

This was a strategic location as the fort’s main purpose was to ward off Dutch colonial ambitions and to facilitate trade. Fort Apollonia played a significant role in the slave trade.

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Address

Western Region-Takoradi-Nzema
Beyin
0233

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 15:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 15:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 15:00
Friday	08:00 - 15:00
Saturday	08:00 - 15:00
Sunday	08:00 - 15:00

Telephone

+233-3321 32529

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