Homowo is a festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana. The festival starts in the month of May with the planting of crops before the rainy season starts. During the festival, they perform a dance called Kpanlogo. The Ga people celebrate Homowo in the remembrance of the famine that once happened in their history in precolonial Ghana. Read more…
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 festival is used to mark the beginning of the fishing season in Elmina. The name Bakatue is got from Read more…
Ghana is a country of 24.6 million people, comprising dozens of native ethnic groups, such as: the Akans in the centre and South of the country; the Ga and Adangbe in, around and East of Accra; the Guang peoples in the rain forest; the Dagombas, Mamprusi and related peoples in Read more…
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (born William Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo; 29 March 1944) is the President of Ghana, in office since January 2017. He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007. Akufo-Addo first ran for President in 2008 and again in Read more…
Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings (born 22 June 1947) is a former head of state and president of Ghana. Rawlings initially came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d’état in 1979 and, after initially handing power over to a civilian Read more…
The National coat of arms of Ghana was designed by Ghanaian artist Amon Kotei and was introduced on 4 March 1957. The National coat of arms of Ghana is is composed of a shield, divided into four quarters by a green St. George’s cross, rimmed with gold. The following are Read more…
Nana William Ofori Atta ,popularly called “Paa Willie”, was a founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention and was one of “The Big Six” detained by the British colonial government in Ghana (then Gold Coast). He later became a Minister for Foreign Affairs in the second republic between 1971 and Read more…
Emmanuel Odarkwei Obetsebi-Lamptey was a politician in the British colony of the Gold Coast. He was one of the founders and leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) known as “The Big Six”. He was the father of NPP politician Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey. He was born in 1902 at a Read more…
Nana Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah was a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar, lawyer and historian. He played a significant role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana, which was formerly the Gold Coast, and in fact is credited with giving Ghana its name. During his political career, Danquah was one of the primary opposition Read more…