Akyem Abuakwa describes a Akyem an Akan people traditional entity in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Akyen Abuakwa is one of the three independent states along with Akyem Bosome and Akyem Kotoku that forms the Akyem Mansa. This nation state in Eastern and Ashanti regions of Ghana.
By the start of the 19th-century it had been subjects of the Ashanti Empire. In 1811 it rebelled against the Ashanti, in which 100 Ashanti officials in the area were killed.