Nananom Mpow

Nananom Mpow (also Nananom Pɔw "the grove of the ancestors", Agya Nana "ancestral father", Borbor Agya "Father of the Borbor Fante", Owura Owura Agya "Distinguished Father") is a traditional sacred grove associated with the Fante people in Ghana; according to Rebecca Shumway, "every self-professed Fante is familiar with the name 'Nananom Mpow'". The name is in the Akan language and is believed to refer to Oburumankoma, Odapagyan, and Oson, the legendary founders of Fante settlement on the West African coast. The grove's destruction in 1851 has been described as "one of the best known clashes" between Christianity and traditional religion in the history of the region that would become Ghana.

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