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Diplomatic missions of Ghana. The Republic of Ghana has several diplomatic missions worldwide. As a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ghanaian diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth members are known as High Commissions. Excluded from this listing are honorary consulates and trade missions.
Kanda was born at Kpandu in the Volta Region of Ghana. He attended Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Senior High School. He later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975 from the University of Ghana where he studied Political science and Modern history. He also received a graduate diploma in international studies three years later.
Gbeho was Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's (UK) from 1972 until 1976, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the European offices of the United Nations in Geneva (1978–80), with concurrent accreditation to UNIDO in Vienna, Austria, [3] and was Ghana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York ...
Akosua Adoma Perbi née Nketiah (born 1952) is a Ghanaian author and a history professor at the University of Ghana. [1] [2] [3]Perbi is the author of A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana from the 15th to the 19th Century and has written over twenty refereed articles and book chapters.
Amma Adomaa Twum-Amoah is a Ghanaian diplomat who has worked for the foreign relations of Ghana in various capacities and is presently Ghana's ambassador to Ethiopia. [1] She became Minister/Head of Chancery of the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, D.C. in the United States on November 17, 2012.
Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Beginning his career as a writer in the 1960s, Armah published poems and short stories in the Ghanaian magazine Okyeame, and in Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and New African. [7] His first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born , was published in 1968, and tells the story of a nameless man who struggles to reconcile himself with ...
The Basel Mission, on the other hand, saw in him only a “big fetish man” with a thin veneer of Christianity.” [1] Other scholars of mission history posit that Oppong was “a real prophet cast in the mould of Elijah or John the Baptist and called ‘to break the power of fetishism in Ghana and to alter fundamentally the history of Ashanti ...