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On June 13, 2010, Ghana defeated Serbia 1-0 in first-round play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup becoming the first African team to win a FIFA World Cup game hosted on African soil and subsequently became the only African team to progress from the group stage to the knock out phase at the 2010 event. On June 26, 2010, Ghana defeated the US by 2 goals ...
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
The Akan (/ ˈ æ k æ n /) people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa.The Akan speak languages within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. [2]
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According to a 2005 Y-DNA study, indigenous Ghanaians in Ghana carry 61% E1b1a. [39] [nb 1] Indigenous Ghanaians also belong to paternal lineages at 2.2% E1a. [39] Indigenous Ghanaians in Ghana are 1.1% E1b1b clade bearers, a haplogroup that is most common in North Africa and the Horn of Africa. West Eurasian haplogroup R1b is present in 1.1% ...
A Report on Paa Joe and the Proverbial Coffins of Teshie and Nungua, Ghana in: Africa e Mediterraneo, Nr. 47–48, S. 44–47. 1991. External Influences on Ga Society and Culture, in: Institute of African Studies Research Review, NS Vol. 7, Nos. 1&2, pages 61–71. 1940.
A map of Ghana's ethno-linguistic areas. Ghana has more than seventy native ethnic groups. [15] Major native African ethnic groups in Ghana include the Akan at 45.7% of the population, the Mole-Dagbon at 18.5%, the Ewe at 13.9%, the Ga-Dangme at 7.1%, the Gurma at 6.4%, the Guan at 3.2%, the Grusi at 2.7%, Mande at 2% and others at 1.6%.
Its economy depended largely on trade in slaves from Central Africa [3] and kola nuts, particularly through the market town of Salaga, sometimes called the "Timbuktu of the South." The Gonja language , properly called Ngbanya or Ngbanyito, [ 4 ] is a Tano language within the Kwa languages family, closely related to Akan languages .