Dahomey warriors raided a village near the city of Tamale in Ghana, and took the survivors to Whydah, now Benin, where they were put up for sale.
Unlike many founders who would name institutions after themselves, Dr Ikoku named the institution after James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (October 18, 1875 – July 30, 1927) who was a missionary and teacher from Ghana.
Amedzofe, Ghana, the settlement south of Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana
Brynn served as chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Mauritania from July 1982 to February 1983 and chargé d'Affaires ad interim to the Gambia from May 1984 to June 1984 before he was the United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1991–1993) and Ghana (1995–1998).
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.
Fort Patience (Dutch: Fort Lijdzaamheid or, in 17th-century spelling, Fort Leydsaemheyt), is a Dutch-built fort located in the township of Apam, in the Central Region of Ghana.
Ghana Grid Company is an electricity transmission company in Ghana.
Kodjoviakope is a neighborhood of Lomé is on the western side of the city, bounded by the Route Circulaire and the Togo-Ghana border.
Ekow Arkaah was born on July 14, 1927 at Senya Breku in the Central Region of the Gold Coast (now Ghana).
Born in Tamale, Ayew started playing professionally in France at only 17, spending a couple of Ligue 1 seasons with FC Metz, then moved to Qatar with Al Ahli SC and played in another country in the following two years, Italy, appearing and scoring sparingly for U.S. Lecce (for instance, he netted four goals in 1993–94's Serie A as his club ranked last with only 28 goals, a competition-worst).
He currently divides his time between his home and studio in New York and Accra, Ghana.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Radio Upper West is a public radio station in Wa, the capital town of the Upper West Region of Ghana.
From 1931 until 1941 he held posts in what is now Ghana, ending his time there as Archdeacon of Ashanti.
Sulley Sariki Muniru (born 25 October 1992 in Konongo) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who currently plays for CFR Cluj.
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.
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He resigned these posts in 1957 after Ghana became independent and soon after settled at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire, later moving to Bouthwaite.
Although Saltponders are Fantis, who are a part of the bigger Akan tribe, the name ABRUQUAH is purported to have its origins from the Akyems who are thought to have migrated from the Eastern "Akyem" Region of Ghana to their present location at the coast, where they integrated well into the Fantis; hence, the other name of Saltpond, Akyemfo, meaning "peapole from Akyem".
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.
The final proposal outlined the building of an aluminum smelter at Tema, a dam constructed at Akosombo to power the smelter, and a network of power lines installed through southern Ghana.
All the opposition parties, including the National Liberation Movement, Moslem Association Party, Northern People's Party, Ga Shifimo Kpee, Togoland Congress and the Anlo Youth Organisation merged to form the United Party, under the leadership of Kofi Abrefa Busia.
Ashanti Gold Sporting Club popularly known as AshGold is a football club based in the gold mining town of Obuasi, south of Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
Ashongman is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Ayi Mensa is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Baba Adamu (born 20 October 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana), known occasionally simply by his nickname "Armando", is a former Ghanaian international football (soccer) striker.
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).
The United States scored only twice in its three games, a draw against eventual champion Italy on an own goal by Italian Cristian Zaccardo and a goal from Clint Dempsey against Ghana.
The Central Regional Hospital, Cape Coast is a regional hospital in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana.
Quansah, a mechanic who lived in the Accra, Ghana neighborhood of Adenta, had been previously under police surveillance as a suspect in the killings.
The Congo Serpent Eagle was first described in 1863 by Hermann Schlegel as Astur spectabilis from a specimen collected near Elmina, Ghana.
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.
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.
She was the spouse of General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Chairman of the National Redemption Council and Supreme Military Council and Head of state of Ghana from 1972 to 1978.
The Fiok festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Sandema in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
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
Francis Dickoh (born 13 December 1982 in Copenhagen) is a Ghanaian/Danish footballer, currently playing for FCM, a club he signed for on the 30th of January, 2014.
He was appointed in April 2013 after Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie was elevated to Chief of Defence Staff .
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".
The initial concept of Green Actors in West Africa was first discussed in September 2004 during a meeting of NC-IUCN’s West African partners in Aburi, Ghana.
The Rev. H.M.Grace, the Principal of Achimota College in the Gold Coast (Ghana), offered Meyerowitz the job of arts and crafts supervisor.
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.
The only known specimen of I. agneshorvathae was collected at light in Bia National Park in Western Ghana from a dry semi-deciduous forest and is most probably a canopy species.
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.
On October 12, 1996, John married Ghanaian actress Akosua Gyamama Busia, an actress and the daughter of Ghana's second Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.
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.
The Papadopoulos era of Kalamata F.C. was notable for the signing of many international players from the African nation of Ghana, such as Samuel Johnson, Afo Dodoo, Ebenezer Hagan, Peter Ofori-Quaye and Derek Boateng.
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.
Later on she was also presenting other live TV shows including the very first and subsequent MOBO awards (music of black origin), The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium and a live link from Ghana, West Africa direct to London with then British Prime Minister and U.S. President, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
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.
Other Akan languages employ variants on Obroni: For example Western Ghana, uses the term ‘Brofo’ or ‘Brofwe’.
After leaving the Bank of Ghana, Paul Acquah joined a new team setup to oversee the restructuring and development of Tema Oil Refinery and Ghana's crude oil supply.
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.
Prof. Ernest Aryeetey - Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana - Legon (2010 - ).
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.
Rebecca Akufo-Addo (neé Griffiths-Randolph) is the daughter of judge and the Third Republic of Ghana speaker of Parliament, Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, and the wife of the leader of the Ghanaian New Patriotic Party and politician Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo.
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.
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.
The power plant is connected to the electricity grid in Ghana and supplies energy to Tema and Accra.
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.
Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.