Mafi Kumase Market

Mafi Kumase Market is a periodic market in Mafi Kumase, a town in Central Tongu District in Ghana's Volta Region. The district capital is Adidome, and Mafi Kumase is one of four market centres in the district, alongside Mafi Adidome, Mafi Avedo and Agorve. It is counted among the district's two major markets, together with Adidome.

The market operates on Mondays only. That single weekly market day distinguishes it from Adidome market, which runs bi-weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays. Visitors planning around the market should therefore treat Monday as the day the market is active; the evidence does not describe trading activity on other days.

Its reputation rests on food produce, and above all on gari, the roasted fermented cassava product. Central Tongu is a food-crop and gari-processing area, and the market is described as a centre for high-quality gari. Reporting and district sources indicate that traders and buyers travel from Accra, Koforidua, Aflao and beyond the region to buy gari and other foodstuffs here. The Central Tongu District Assembly has described Mafi-Kumase market as one of the biggest markets in the Volta Region.

For a visitor, the market is best understood as a working food-trade destination rather than a staged attraction. What is documented is its scale, its Monday cycle and its gari trade. The evidence does not record opening hours beyond the market day, entrance arrangements, prices, or visitor facilities, so those details should be treated as unknown.

An upgrade of the market centre has been planned: a contract was awarded by then District Chief Executive Thomas Moore Zonyrah to continue works on the market centre, a project that began in 2014 and had stalled. The new contractor projected a four-month completion. Planned elements included market stalls and sheds, repair of old sheds and stores, a 10-seater water closet toilet, a kindergarten, mechanised solar-powered boreholes, electrical works with street lights, and a waste disposal platform. The status of these works is not established by the available evidence.

Mafi Kumase lies in Central Tongu District, Volta Region. Published coordinates of 6.27111, 0.56861 refer to the town, not to the market itself, which has no separately published coordinates. Road conditions in the district have been reported as a development constraint, so travel times should not be assumed.