Kwakwaduam is the name given to any organized community of people of Akropong extraction resident outside Akropong. Kwakwaduam societies are found in most cities in the world with a significant population of people of Akropong heritage. Originally, Kwakwaduam societies existed primarily to serve the interest of the stool of Akropong and were controlled from the palace at Akropong. As central government and organized religion pushed traditional authority to the periphery of significance in the lives of Ghanaians, the Kwakwaduam societies gained some measure of influence in palace affairs. Key figures from the Accra and Koforidua societies featured prominently in palace programmes at the height of this new-found influence in the 1970s and 1980s. As the Ghana's economic fortunes declined, large numbers of Ghanaians began to migrate abroad from the mid 1970s. Wherever these emigrants settled, the Akropong natives among them founded Kwakwaduam societies. There are active Kwakwaduam societies in the United Kingdom, North America and Europe. They have no direct affiliation with one another but have a common provenance in Akropong.

The New York society was started in the 1970s by natives of Akuapem State of which Akropong is the capital. It spawned several Ghanaian associations until 1998 when Obaapanyin Ama Oforiwa of blessed memory reconstituted it into the Kwakwaduam Association of New York.