61. BPSP Regional Site Part of the Biodiversity Planning Support Project. ghana is the regional Site for Anglophone West Africa. http://www.gws-bpsp.org.gh

62. Ghana (09/05) Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, ghana became an independent state on March 6, 1957, when the United http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2860.htm

Bureau of Public Affairs Electronic Information and Publications Office Background Notes Bureau of African Affairs September 2005 Background Note: Ghana PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Ghana Geography Area: 238,538 sq. km. (92,100 sq. mi.); about the size of Illinois and Indiana combined. Cities: Capital Accra (metropolitan area pop. 3 million est.). Other cities Kumasi (1 million est.), Tema (500,000 est.), Sekondi-Takoradi (370,000 est.). Terrain: Plains and scrubland, rainforest, savanna. Climate: Tropical. People Nationality: Noun and adjective Ghanaian(s). Population (2004 est.): 21 million. Density: 88/sq. km. (228/sq. mi.). Annual growth rate (2004 est.): 2.7%. Ethnic groups: Akan, Ewe, Ga, Moshi-Dagomba. Religions: Christian 69%, Muslim 15.6%, traditional and indigenous beliefs 8.5%. Languages: English (official), Akan (which includes Asante Twi, Akwapim Twi, Akyem, and Fanti) 49%, Mole-Dagbani 16%, Ewe 13%, Ga-Adangbe 8%, Guan 4%, others 10%. Education: Years compulsory Literacy Health: Infant mortality rate (2003 est.)64/1,000.

63. IRIN News - Ghana News on relief, development, social, economic and political affairs, by the Integrated regional Information Network (IRIN) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. http://www.irinnews.org/frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry

64. Ghana Provides country brief and profile, Millennium Development Goals and regional Integration Assistance Strategy along with news, projects and total IDA credits. http://www.worldbank.org/gh

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65. UNU-INRA -- United Nations University Institute For Natural Resources In Africa Summary Proceedings of the UNU/INRA regional Workshop. Accra, ghana March 1998. http://www.unu.edu/inra/pub/bforson/bforson.html

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66. Malaria Consortium An international nonprofit organization with the aim of improving disease control at global, regional and local levels. Includes details of activities in Uganda and ghana. Head office in London, UK. http://www.malariaconsortium.org/

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67. Ghana: Map, History And Much More From Answers.com The coastal region and the far north of ghana are savanna areas; in between is See D. Kimble, A Political history of ghana, 1850–1928 (1963); D. Austin, http://www.answers.com/topic/ghana-1

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Government ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Map Local Time Geography Dialing Code Currency Stats Anthem Wikipedia Translations Best of Web Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Ghana Dictionary Gha·na g¤ nə A country of western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea. It was inhabited in precolonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms, including an inland Ashanti kingdom and various Fante states along the coast. Trade with European states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and the British established a crown colony, Gold Coast, in 1874. Ghana became independent in 1957. Accra is the capital and the largest city. Population: 20,700,000 . var tcdacmd="cc=edu;dt"; Encyclopedia Ghana, officially Republic of Ghana, republic (2005 est. pop. 21,030,000), 92,099 sq mi (238,536 sq km), W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Accra . The country is divided into ten administrative regions. Land and People Modern Ghana comprises the former British colony of the Gold Coast and the former mandated territory of British Togoland. It is bordered by the C´te d'Ivoire on the west, Burkina Faso on the north, and Togo on the east. The coastal region and the far north of Ghana are savanna areas; in between is a forest zone. The country's largest river is the Volta; the damming of the river for a hydroelectric station at Akosombo (1964) created the enormous Lake Volta. In addition to the capital (Accra), other important cities are

68. Ghana History Timeline - Historic Overview Of Ghana (Gold Coast), Africa A time line overview of big and small events in the history of ghana. The region shares it s early history with all of West Africa. http://crawfurd.dk/africa/ghana_timeline.htm

home sitemap search help ... about me Content on this page: Early history Arrival of the Europeans The slave trade British Crown Colony ... New president elected More on this site: Ghana (overview) African History Akan Cultural festival Communicating through African Kente fashion More history: Kenya history Cameroon history Mozambique history The Rwanda genocide ... Sudan timeline Ghana links CountryReports: History of Ghana Ghana - a country study Political resources Amnesty International: Ghana ... Info-Ghana: History Shop now! Coast of Slaves (By Thorkild Hansen) US order European order Shopping info Shop now! Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade US order European order Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism US order European order Shopping info A time line overview of big and small events in the history of Ghana. Preface Ghana with its current borders has only existed for approximately hundred years. Earlier several kingdoms inhibited the area, each with their own history, which are only briefly mentioned on this page. Similar to most of Africa, the history of pre-colonial Ghana is not known in complete details. This is due to years of neglect from colonisers and western historians, but also has to do with the traditional African storytelling, which is oral (not written). Furthermore there has only been a limited amount of archaeological finds.

69. Ghana Introduction - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources The region of modern ghana has been inhabited for several thousand years, role of the armed forces and the police in ghana s postindependence history. http://workmall.com/wfb2001/ghana/ghana_history_introduction.html

HISTORY INDEX Country Ranks Introduction History ... [TOP] Ghana Introduction http://workmall.com/wfb2001/ghana/ghana_history_introduction.html Source: The Library of Congress Country Studies < BACK TO HISTORY CONTENTS Unavailable Figure 1. Administrative Divisions of Ghana, 1994 WHEN GHANA ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE from colonial domination in 1957, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to do so, it enjoyed economic and political advantages unrivaled elsewhere in tropical Africa. The economy was solidly based on the production and export of cocoa, of which Ghana was the world's leading producer; minerals, particularly gold; and timber. It had a well-developed transportation network, relatively high per capita income, low national debt, and sizable foreign currency reserves. Its education system was relatively advanced, and its people were heirs to a tradition of parliamentary government. Ghana's future looked promising, and it seemed destined to be a leader in Africa. Yet during the next twenty-five years, rather than growth and prosperity, Ghanaians experienced substantial declines in all of the above categories, and the country's image became severely tarnished. Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing into the mid-1990s, efforts were undertaken to rebuild the government and the economy and to restore the luster of Ghana's name. It is this attempt at reconstruction that constitutes the major focus of the present volume. The region of modern Ghana has been inhabited for several thousand years, but little is known of Ghana's early inhabitants before the sixteenth century. By then, however, the major population groups were on the scene and in their present locales. More than 100 separate ethnic groups are found in Ghana today, a number of which are immigrant groups from neighboring countries.

70. Www.ghana.co.uk - History & Culture Acheampong was born in Kuamsi in the Ashanti Region, to James Kwadwo Kutu Acheampongand He promised to redeem ghana and initially gained popularity by http://www.ghana.co.uk/history/presidents/president_profiles/acheampong.htm

Home Discussions History Events ... Religion General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong Soldier and Political Leader 1931 - 1979 Acheampong was born in Kuamsi in the Ashanti Region, to James Kwadwo Kutu Acheampong and Madam Akua Manu of Trabuom, Ashanti. He attended Trabuom Elementary School, St. Peter's Catholic School, Kumasi, and Central College of Commerce, Swedru in the Central Region. He left school with a Middle School Certificate; GCE 'O' Level and a Diploma in Commerce. Between 1945 and 1951 Acheampong worked as a stenographer/secretary at the Timber Sawmill in Kumasi, taught at Kumasi Commercial College and was Vice Principal at Agona-Swedru College of Commerce. In 1951, he enlisted as a Private in the colonial army and went on a training course in Aldershot, England. He served with a contingent attached to the British Battalion, which was based in Germany. On returning to Ghana, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant. From 1959-1966, Acheampong attended several courses including one in Personnel Administration at the Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. He became the Commanding Officer of the 5 th and 6 th battalion and was mentioned in dispatches while serving with the Ghana contingent on the UN Belgian Congo Peacekeeping Force.

71. List Of Possible Topics regional communities in ghana Case studies of developing a regional communityin ghana Research article on developing regional communities in ghana http://itira.cqu.edu.au/encyclopedia/topics.htm

Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology Home Call For Short Articles List of Possible Topics Sample Manuscript ... Editorial Board List of Possible Topics Section 1: General Theoretical Issues This section comprises research articles that develop theories relating to the use of ICT to develop the social, economic and cultural capital in regional communities. The following list of topics and titles is indicative only - suggestions for other topics and titles are welcomed. Overview: Developing regional communities with ICT Community informatics and regional development Community Technology: Policy, partnership and practice Enhancing information access and e-commerce opportunities Information access in regional communities: Bridging the digital divide Effective use of ICT: Digital Inclusion Section 2: Thematic Issues This section comprises research articles and case studies that cover various thematic issues of using ICT to develop the social, economic and cultural capital in regional communities. The following list of themes and titles is indicative only - suggestions for other themes and titles are welcomed.

72. Sub-Saharan African History Sources Organized by subject and region, includes useful annotations. landscape ofthe Cape Coast, ghana region for the purposes of preservation and education. http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html

ask us email chat phone ... Off-Campus Access Sub-Saharan African History General African Studies Sites East Africa South Africa West Africa ... Organizations General African Studies Sites Africa Focus Online collection of over 3000 slides, 500 photographs and 50 hours of sound from 45 African countries. Emphasis is on contemporary Africa. Also see the Herskovits Library poster collection , Smithsonian's exhibit African Voices Africana.com and the BBC's Story of Africa Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources Site maintained by the Berkeley-Stanford Joint Center for African Studies. Organized by subject and region, includes useful annotations. Also see African Studies WWW and African Studies Internet African History Sourcebook Collection of primary and secondary sources dealing with the history of Africa. Regional Sites East Africa Kenya Images of Colonial Africa Collection of photographs taken by Laura Collins, a missionary in Kenya during the early 1900s. Maintained at Wheaton College. Tanzania Sakuma Home Page Home page of the Sakuma Museum in Kisesa,Tanzania. Narratives and photographs focus on the culture and history of Tanzania.

73. Famous Nigerians And Personalities - OnlineNigeria.com history of Nigeria with significant timelines in it s history. 1967 (January4) Nigeria s military leaders travelled to Aburi in ghana to find a http://www.onlinenigeria.com/history.asp

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74. Ghana - History And Politics Jerry Rawlings, the first time in ghana s 43year history that an in thesub-region, with several decades of close relationship between ghana and http://www.iss.co.za/AF/profiles/Ghana/Politics.html

Geographic Map General Information Geography Natural resources ... Sources Ghana - History and Politics Constitution adopted 28 April 1992. Much of it is based on the US system. Legal system based on English common law and customary law Legislative branch - unicameral National Assembly (200 seats) Elections - last held 2000. These elections ended the 20-year rule of Pres. Jerry Rawlings, the first time in Ghana's 43-year history that an incumbent government was changed through the ballot box. Pre-colonial History The name of modern day Ghana was taken from the ancient kingdom of Ghana, which was one of the most powerful three West African states of Mali and Songhai. Its gloried period was between the 12 th to the 16 th centuries. In the aftermath of its defeat by the Songhai empire, most of its citizens, it is believed, migrated to present day Ghana. With the settlement along the coastal belt of present day Ghana, most of the inhabitants along the coast became traders and middlemen between European traders who peddeled their wares along the West coast and the hinterland traders who brought their goods to the coast to sell in exchange for European goods. Due to the very profitable trade in gold, the coastal stretch which forms the modern state of Ghana became known as the Gold Coast. The wealth of the coastal trade is attested to by the concerntration of forts and castles along this short coastal stretch representing all major European powers of time gone by. The process of incoporating the then Gold Coast into a formalised relationship occurred on several multiple front concurrently. While the European trading companies supported by their states and mercenary armies fought amongst themselves and against the coastal and hinterland states and kingdoms, similar processes were concurrently taking place among the Gold Coast kingdoms. In the final reckoning, two powerful states were left on the coast, England and Denmark. On 31 December 1849, Denmark withdrew from her Gold Coast colonial expedition after almost two hundred years of turbulence. She sold her posessions on in Gold Coast to the English at the handsome price of ten thousand pounds sterling.

75. AllRefer.com - Ghana - Regional And Local Government | Ghanaian Information Reso Source Based on information from ghana, Local Government Information Digest, 4, Before the changes in regional and local administration under the PNDC, http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/ghana/ghana125.html

You are here allRefer Reference Ghana History ... Ghana Ghana Regional and Local Government Unavailable Figure 13. Structure of Local Government, 1994 Source: Based on information from Ghana, Local Government Information Digest , 4, No. 6, Accra, November-December 1991, 42. Before the changes in regional and local administration under the PNDC, Ghana had a highly centralized government structure in which local people and communities were little involved in decision making. Local government services were poor and depended largely on funds and personnel provided by the national government in Accra. Since the 31st December 1981 Revolution, however, local government has increasingly benefited from the decentralization of government ministries and from the establishment of district assemblies in 1989. Ghana is divided into ten administrative regions, each headed by a regional secretary. The ten regions and their regional capitals are: Greater Accra Region (Accra), Eastern Region (Koforidua), Central Region (Cape Coast), Western Region (SekondiTakoradi ), Volta Region (Ho), Ashanti Region (Kumasi), Brong-Ahafo Region (Sunyani), Northern Region (Tamale), Upper East Region (Bolgatanga), and Upper West Region (Wa) (see fig. 1

76. AllRefer.com - Ghana - District Assembly Elections | Ghanaian Information Resour In February 1988, Adu Boahen, a retired history professor and later a For theDA elections, the country was divided into three zones by region. http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/ghana/ghana117.html

You are here allRefer Reference Ghana History ... Ghana Ghana District Assembly Elections Sessional Meeting of a House of Chiefs Courtesy Embassy of Ghana, Washington The main political preoccupations of the PNDC and the Ghanaian public in 1988 were the implementation of the government's decentralization program and the elections to the new District Assemblies (DAs). In a speech commemorating his fifth year in power in January 1987, Rawlings had announced proposals for the decentralization of government. These had included promises of elections for DAs and a national debate on the ERP. The debate on the ERP never materialized, but debates on the elections and the DAs did. Among the radical changes introduced in local government elections were provisions that no cash deposits were required of candidates for district level elections and that illiteracy in English was no longer a disqualification. To accommodate nonEnglish speakers in the DAs and to make assembly debates accessible to the majority of constituents, local languages could be used in the DAs. The elections were to be nonpartisan: the ban on political parties was not lifted. Implementation of the decentralization program and preparation for the district elections did not completely silence the opposition nor did it remove the sources of public discontent and disaffection toward the government within some sections of the Ghanaian population. In 1988 there was no indication of what political structures and institutions would be established above the DAs at regional and national levels. Nor was it clear whether creation of the DAs was intended to broaden the civilian support base of the PNDC, thereby legitimizing and perpetuating PNDC rule indefinitely. Some felt that the word "provisional" in the regime's name sounded a bit hollow after five years in power. Indeed, many read the proposed district elections as a strategy similar to the union government proposal in 1978 that had not been implemented because of its widespread unpopularity (see

77. Ghana, Mali, And Songhay Black Excellence In World history. Subject Document In a vast region southof the Sahara, Africans organized kingdoms which in time became great empires http://www.csusm.edu/Black_Excellence/documents/pg-g-m-s-empires.html

Black Excellence In World History Subject Document Submitted by: Donavan Duncan, Student, Mira Costa Community College Go to Home Page , or use the " Back " button on your browser for previous page. West African Kingdoms by: Donavan Duncan It is generally accepted by scholars and scientists today that Africa is the continent where humankind first saw the light of day. Indeed, it is widely recognized as the original home of man. One of the most tragic misconceptions of historical thought has been the belief that Black Africa had no history before European colonization. Whites foster the image of Africa as a barbarous and savage continent torn by tribal warfare for centuries. It was a common assumption of nineteenth-century European and American Whites - promoted by the deliberate cultivation of pseudoscientific racism - that Africans were inferior to Whites and were devoid of any trace of civilization or culture. It is only recently that more reliable studies has brought to light much information about great civilizations that developed in Africa while Europe was in the period often referred as the Dark Ages. The earliest of these mature civilizations were in West Africa. In a vast region south of the Sahara, Africans organized kingdoms which in time became great empires. This region is called the Sudan (a word meaning "land of the Blacks" in Arabic) The Sudan was important in the early history of Black Africa because the Africans first practiced agriculture in this region, and thus became the first people south of the Sahara to fashion and use iron tools and weapons. They were also among the first people in Africa to organize viable political systems. The Sudanic Blacks had learn to domesticate crops long before the coming of Christianity, and their grain production furnished food for an expanding population.

78. EARLY HISTORY OF AFRICA An important region of food production in prehistoric Africa appears to havebeen the Sahara By mid eighth century there was a powerful state of ghana. http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/history1.htm

HISTORY OF AFRICA Incredible @rt Dept ART HOME Lesson Plans Art Rubrics- Files ... Climate and Regions Africa . Third Edition. Indiana: Indiana University Press. Aspects of Early History and Prehistoric Africa Oral Traditions Archaeology Ancestor Stories (see Dogon Stone Age People Later Stone Age Domestication Early Technology ... Oral traditions were often not reliable and had to be decoded and studied within the wider cultural context. Different societies had different traditions. Those with centralized power and hereditary dynasties had selected individual entrusted with the memorization of history the griots (known as Jelis ... among the Manding groups) Archaeology Every ethnic group has legend on the beginning of history how ancestors arrived in their present area. (See examples of the Dogon). Others simply say that their present day location is the original homeland. Traditions of migration are most common and useful in understanding a great deal of African history particularly the emergence of dynasties and interactions between different groups. The movement of people contributed to the spread of new ideas and technology. There is a degree of similarity between widely separated societies. Common in the element of traditions in the formation of state is the role of the environment. Pre-Historic Africa After more than 60 million years of primate evolution, there is evidence in East Africa, dating more than 4 million years ago, of upright -walking ancestors who split away from the rest of the apes. By approximately 2.5 million years ago, ancestors show interesting new behavior patterns making and using stone tools, ushering the Stone Age.

79. History Of Nsaba, Ghana Chapter 1 history of Nsaba, ghana Chapter 1 Introduction. The Akans migrated into thepresent day tropical forest region of ghana and Ivory Coast from the savanna http://www.expage.com/nsabahistory1

History of Nsaba, Ghana Chapter 1 Introduction Nsaba is a town of about 16,000 people which was founded in the 18th Century AD, at the beginning of the 1700's, as the seat of the Agona Kingdom in present day Ghana. The current population of the town accounts for roughly 0.1% of the population of Ghana. The town belongs to the Agona District, one of 110 politically administrative districts of Ghana. It is also part of the Central Region, one of the 10 politically administrative regions of the country. The town is situated about 95 kilometres northwest of Accra, the capital of Ghana and about 110 kilometres northeast of Cape Coast, the capital town of the Central Region. It is also about 40 kilometres north of the Atlantic Ocean. Nsaba is one of about 500 medium-sized rural towns in Ghana, with a population between 5,000 to 20,000. The economy of the town is underpinned by agricultural activities such as cocoa production, semi-subsistence food production, small scale building construction and crafts manufacturing. The people of Nsaba are Akans, the largest ethnic group in Ghana and a significantly large ethnic group in the neighbouring country of Ivory Coast. The Akans, numbering about eight million people, constitute about half of the population of Ghana. They have a traditional matrilineal system of lineage and culture. One of the main identities of the Akan group are the day names given to children at birth which were discouraged by the Christian missionaries but now recognised by the local Churches. Weekly Church collections and dues are now often based on day-names with males and females born on the same day of the week collecting their monies together. This acts as a form of competition spurring greater donations for the Church. The seven matrilineal clan lineages and 40-day months are also important Akan identities.

80. Ghana: History In the Volta Region, the PP won some Ewe seats, while the NAL won all seats in the ghana s economy remained largely dependent upon the often difficult http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/1966-71.php

History Home Ancient Ghana Pre-Colonial Gold Coast/Slave Trade ... History of ..... Historical Notes Afrifa's letter CIA Nkrumah Files Quotes of DC Kwakye ... More Documents Advertisement The National Liberation Council and the Busia Years, 1966-71 The leaders of the coup that overthrew Nkrumah immediately opened the country's borders and its prison gates to allow the return from exile or release from preventive detention of all opponents of Nkrumah. The National Liberation Council (NLC), composed of four army officers and four police officers, assumed executive power. It appointed a cabinet of civil servants and promised to restore democratic government as quickly as possible. The ban on the formation of political parties remained in force until late 1968, but activity by individual figures began much earlier with the appointment of a succession of committees composed of civil servants and politicians as the first step in the return to civilian and representative rule. These moves culminated in the appointment of a representative assembly to draft a constitution for the Second Republic of Ghana. Political party activity was allowed to commence with the opening of the assembly. By election time in August 1969, the first competitive nationwide political contest since 1956, five parties had been organized.

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