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Otuam (also Tantum) is a town in Mfantsiman Municipal District, Central Region, Ghana.

Nana Amuah-Afenyi VI (born Peggielene Bartels in 1953), known informally as King Peggy, is the reigning chief of the town. She has worked as a secretary at the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C. since the 1970s.

History

It is the site where the Royal African Company built Fort Tantumquery in the 1720s.

References

Otuam Wikipedia