Tafi has 3 communities namely; tafi mando, tafi atome and tafi abuise... But Tafi atome is more popular because it has the largest number of monkeys and probably the largest land... Tafi is the only place where monkeys are treated as humans... Anyway they are known to be messengers of the village.
Some years ago a group of migrants left the coastal shores of Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana to their present home in the Volta Region. On arrival, they settled in three major close communities(TafiMando, TafiAtome and TafiAbuise). This ancestral group intercepted a group of calm monkeys who lived amiably with them. Believing the monkeys to be messengers to the god, the chiefs and people of Tafi communities have been protecting them for the past 200 years.
However, in the early 1980s when Christianity got to the traditional area and over empowered the traditional beliefs and customs attached to these creatures, the people began seeing the monkeys as ordinary. Therefore, some of the people started killing the monkeys for delicacies and others began lumbering the trees in the forest for firewood, timber and to clear farmlands for farming activities all proving that they no longer revered the fetish monkeys.
These activities went on and kept on increasing until the early 90’s when an environmentalist from Canada named John Mason arrived in the community in the mission of scientific conservation research. In undertaking the research, he realized that the flora and fauna in the areas were critically endangered and others virtually at the point of extinction, the aftermath recommendations of this man led to the establishment and operation of the area as a monkey sanctuary in 1996. The place is really really awesome but don’t go without bananas. The person with the most banana would have the most friends(monkey's).. they have a thick forest with different species of birds .
You need to visit this jungle One day.