The Bakatue Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Elmina in the Central region of Ghana.The festival, established at least as far back as 1847, is celebrated on the first Tuesday in the month of July every year. The Dutch reported existence of the festival at least as Read more…
The Damba festival is an ancient celebration of the Dagamba of Northern Ghana and brought along from Zamfara in the North of Nigeria into Dagbon in the first quarter of the 18th Century during the rign of Naa Zangina. Festivities take place on the 11th, 17th and 18th days of Read more…
The Asafotufiam Festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Ada in the Dangbe East of the Greater Accra region of Ghana.[1] The festival is celebrated in the first week of August every year.[1] It is celebrated in remembrance of the achievements in wars for settlements fought by the Read more…
Dipo is a Ghanaian traditional festival celebrated by the people of Odumase in the Eastern region of Ghana.The festival is celebrated in the month of April every year.The festival is used to usher into puberty, girls who are virgins and it signifies that a lady, who partakes in it, is Read more…
Tetteh Quarshie’s travels to Fernando Po (now Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea), was to transform the economy of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) with his introduction of cocoa beans on his return. Hitherto, palm-oil and rubber were the main staple industries in Ghana. Tetteh Quarshie was born in 1842 to Read more…
On March 6th, 1957, before a crowd of over 100,000 at the Old polo Grounds, the Ghana National Anthem was officially played for the first time. The Author of these new lyrics was Mr. Emmanuel Pappoe-Thompson, an Educationist and renowned musician. A few line of the Anthem was contributed by Read more…
Nii Amon Kotei (24 May 1915 — 17 October 2011) was a Ghanaian artist (sculpture, painter and musician) and surveyor. He is also the acclaimed designer of the Coat of Arms of Ghana.He was one of Ghana’s leading artists. Kotei was born on 24 May 1915, at La, near Accra, Read more…
Dr Nana Joseph Kwame Kyeretwei Boakye Danquah was born in December 1895 at Bempong and died on 4th February 1965 in Nsawam. He was Dean of the Ghanaian nationalist politicians, and one of the principal opposition leaders to Kwame Nkrumah. Educated in law and philosophy in London, Danquah established a Read more…
Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–17 October 1921) (pronounced YAA A-san-TE-WAA) was appointed queen mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire—now part of modern-day Ghana—by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese, the Ejisuhene—or ruler of Ejisu. In 1900, she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool, also Read more…