Peki

Peki is a town in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region of Ghana, made up of eight subtowns, each with its own subchief, all owing allegiance to a paramount chief known as the Deiga. It is known for Peki Secondary School, the E.P. Seminary and the government teacher training college. Missionary history is central to the town: Reverend Lorenz Wulf of the North German Missionary Society arrived on 14 November 1847 at the invitation of Kwadzo Dei Tutu Yao II, a date remembered as the foundation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Ghana, and a school followed in 1848. The population draws on an old forest-dwelling Guan-speaking group, Ewe migrants said to come from Notsie, and refugees from kingdoms such as Akwamu, Asante and Denkyira, and the Ewe language of the migrants became the language of the town.