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15 unusual facts about Ghana


Achatina achatina

The species is believed to be native to West Africa, within 100–190 miles of the coasts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Fair Trials International

Ghana Girls: In July 2007, two 16-year-old girls, Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, were arrested for possession of 6 kilograms of cocaine at Accra airport in Ghana.

Kade Agricultural Research Station

Kade Agricultural Research Station or Center is an agricultural research center located at Kade, in the Eastern Region of Ghana is part of the University of Ghana Centers of Research and Learning.

Kodjoviakopé

Kodjoviakope is a neighborhood of Lomé is on the western side of the city, bounded by the Route Circulaire and the Togo-Ghana border.

Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh

Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana.

Mining industry of Ghana

More than 99% of gold production in the early 1990s came from underground mines in western and Ashanti Region, with the remainder coming from river beds in Ashanti Region and Central Region.

Nafana people

They arrived in the Banda area after the Ligbi people, who according to Stahl (2004) came from Bigu (Begho, Bighu) to the area in the early 17th century.town or Some major towns of the Nafana people are Sampa, Kokoa, Duadaso No 1, Duadaso No 2, Jamera, and Kabile which are in the Jaman North District.

Oppong

Oppong is a surname that originates in Ghana.

Otto Friedrich von der Groeben

They arrived near the village of Accada on 27 December 1682, hoisted the flag of Brandenburg on 1 January 1683 near the modern Princes Town and began to build a fortification, which they called Fort Groß Friedrichsburg.

St John Evans

From 1931 until 1941 he held posts in what is now Ghana, ending his time there as Archdeacon of Ashanti.

St. Francis Girls' Secondary School

It is situated on Wa-Hamile Trunk road, about 2 kilometers away from the main township of Jirapa.

Sulley Muniru

Muniru started his youth career at Ashanti Akim Missiles, a colts club in his hometown Konongo and helped then his college team to win the national championship where he was voted the best player.

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Sulley Sariki Muniru (born 25 October 1992 in Konongo) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who currently plays for CFR Cluj.

Swedish Gold Coast

Fort Carlsborg (also Carolusborg and Cape Coast Castle), present day Cape Coast, Central Region, under Swedish administration 22 April 1650 – January/February 1658, 10 December 1660 – 22 April 1663.

The Africans

The programme interviewed Africans living in Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa and focused on the everyday lives of people working for social change, democratisation and progress in their own local communities.


Abdul Salam Mumuni

His first film, which brought attention back to the film industry in Ghana, was God Loves Prostitutes, which starred Nollywood star Genevieve Nnaji.

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Alpha Beta Christian College

It is located in Dansoman, Accra, Ghana, and offers the Cambridge International Programmes IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and A-Levels.

Awudu Issaka

In July 2006 Issaka, joined the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Tema Youth.

Ayi Mensa

Ayi Mensa is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Buipe

Buipe is a small town and is the capital of Central Gonja district, a district in the Northern Region of north Ghana.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Daniel Ashley Addo

Daniel Ashley Addo (born September 3, 1989 in Cape Coast) is a Ghanaian football defensive midfielder currently playing for Kazakhstan Premier League club Kairat on loan from Zorya Luhansk.

Dany Bahar

During his time at Red Bull, Bahar lead the diversification of the brand into NASCAR and football with the acquisition of teams in Salzburg, New York and Ghana.

Dave Godfrey

He taught in Ghana for several years including Adisadel College, Cape Coast from 1963-65 where he was the English and music instructor.

Ebrié

Their oral history relates that the tribe was originally located to the northeast, near the lands of the Ashanti in Ghana, but that they fled to the south after a great defeat in battle by a neighboring tribe.

Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift is a 2005 documentary narrating the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled man born in Ghana.

Eric Adjei

Eric Kwame Adjei (born September 12, 1984 in Tema, Ghana) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a midfielder for SK Roudnice nad Labem.

Fiok festival

The Fiok festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Sandema in the Upper East Region of Ghana.

Flabellina affinis

This species is found in depths to 50 m in European waters along Portugal and Spain, in the Mediterraneran Sea along Greece, in the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Ghana and along the Canaries

Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro

He was appointed in April 2013 after Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie was elevated to Chief of Defence Staff .

Ghana Empire

French colonial officials, notably Maurice Delafosse, concluded that Ghana had been founded by the Berbers, a nomadic group origination from the Benu River, from Middle Africa, and linked them to North African and Middle Eastern origins.

Global spread of H5N1 in 2007

May 3, 2007:"Ghana's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in sick chickens by local laboratories and a US naval laboratory in Egypt, a World Health Organisation official said overnight. Some 1600 birds had already been incinerated as part of efforts to control the outbreak on a farm 20km east of Ghana's capital Accra, near the port of Tema".

Governance Initiative for Rights and Accountability in Forest Management

The Governance Initiative for Rights & Accountability in Forest Management (GIRAF) is a project executed in Ghana with funds from the European Union (EU) and its partners CARE Denmark, CIVIC Response, Friends of the Earth-Ghana and Centre for Indigenous Knowledge.

Haatso

Haatso is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Heineken Lokpobiri

After Nigeria performed poorly at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, the Senate Sports Committee of which Lokpobiri was chairman issued a report which cast blame on maladministration and lack of cooperation from the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu.

Jack H. Goaslind

During this time, he oversaw placing Emmanuel A. Kissi in charge of the church's affairs in Ghana during "the freeze", when the government of Ghana forbade all meetings of the church.

Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra

Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts in the city of Accra, Ghana and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

John Cofie

Born in Aboso in Ghana, he began his career with Manchester United but failed to make the break into the first team.

Joseph Oliver Bowers

In recognition and acknowledgement of his work in Ghana, when the diocese of St. John's-Basseterre in the West Indies was created in 1971 - comprising the islands of Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands - Bowers was appointed its first bishop on January 16, 1971, becoming the chief pastor in Antigua.

Kleist Sykes

He met Dr. James Aggrey, Ghanaian teacher, who inspired Sykes to form the Tanganyika African Association (AA) in 1929, along with friends including Mzee bin Sudi, Cecil Matola, Suleiman Mjisu and Raikes Kusi.

Kusasi people

Around 400,000 Kusasi are found in the Bawku Districts of northern Ghana, a region inhabited by a mixture of peoples, including the Mamprusi who came over from across the White Volta in Mamprugu in the era preceding the colonization of the area and other minority groups like the Bisa or Busasi, Moshie, Fulani and Bimoba communities.

Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute

The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute (officially known as the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economics and Political Science or Winneba ideological Institute) was an educational body in Winneba founded to promote socialism in Ghana as well as the decolonization of Africa.

Ľuboš Micheľ

He sent off one Ghanaian player for diving and ordered the Ghana coach, Ratomir Dujković, to leave the field after the coach argued with him about the offside goal.

Meltwater Group

The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.

Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport

On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.

Nzema people

In Ghana the Nzema area is divided into two electoral districts of Nzema East District and Nzema West, which is also referred to as Jomoro District of Ghana.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Oburoni

Other Akan languages employ variants on Obroni: For example Western Ghana, uses the term ‘Brofo’ or ‘Brofwe’.

Odumase, Ghana

Odumase (or Odumase Sunyani West) is a small town and is the capital of Sunyani West district of the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.

Peter Nanfuri

He is a former Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Ghana.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School

Prof. Ernest Aryeetey - Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana - Legon (2010 - ).

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie

On 5 June, he scored Ghana's one goal victory over Latvia in their last warm-up match at Stadium mk in Milton Keynes, England.

Ralph Atkin

Atkin has also been associated with the attempted takeover of Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 2001 and with the startup of Ghana International Airlines in Ghana in 2004.

Red Volta

The Red Volta is a river that flows through the Upper East region of North Ghana and the international border of North Ghana flowing about 320 km to join the White Volta in the Upper East region of North Ghana and arising in Burkina Faso.

S. A. Agulhas

Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.

Seth Berkley

Some of his initiatives included developing a public health training program, Public Health School without Walls, which began in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Uganda, and then spread to Vietnam, as well as an international program to support non-governmental organizations working on AIDS, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

Sumniboma

Edward Mahama, leader of the People's National Convention was born in Sumniboma.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.