 Kumasi Fort in the Ashanti Region was originally built by an Asante king in imitation of these colonial forts.Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions is the collective designation by UNESCO of European-style fortifications and outposts (mostly Portuguese, Dutch and British) along the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) during the colonial period.The term specifically applies to a number of such fortifications designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979, including