Dixcove

Dixcove is a coastal village and fishing community in the Ahanta West district of the Western Region of south Ghana, about 35 kilometres west of the regional capital Sekondi-Takoradi. It is the site of Fort Metal Cross, an English-built fort completed in 1698 on a bluff above the fishing village, used mainly as a slave fort and also as a depot for the trade in gold and palm oil, and later as a prison, police station and post office. From the early 17th to the 19th century the town was a trading centre divided into two quarters, Upper Dixcove and Lower Dixcove, and land disputes between rival chiefs led to violence between them in 2020 and 2022. The paramount chief of Upper Dixcove is Obrempong Hima Dekyi XIV.