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The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast. [29] Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of 2024, making up 85% of the population. [27] [30] The word "Ghana" means "warrior king". [31]
The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [1] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
David Anumle Hansen, Ghana Navy Chief of Naval Staff; Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, lieutenant general; commissioned as a lieutenant in 1954 and seconded to the British army on the Rhine; Rosamond Asiamah Nkansah (born 1930), first Ghanaian policewoman; Jerry Rawlings, former president of the Republic of Ghana and Ghana Air Force fighter pilot
Notable African-American intellectuals and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X used Ghana as a symbol of black achievement. Most of the early immigrants from Ghana to the United States were students who came to get a better education and planned on using the education acquired in the United States to better Ghana. [7]
According to oral history, the Kingdom of Dagbon was formed in 1480. [16] The people practiced a patrilineal system of inheritance. Trade was established with the Hausa states and Mali Empire. Islam was introduced into the kingdom between the 15th and 17th centuries by Mande and Soninke Muslim traders. [17]
The Fante people are the third-largest ethnic group of the Akan people, with the Ashanti and Akuapem being the first and second largest groups, respectively. Fantes over the course of the years developed a unique blend of culinary dishes that are now eaten all over Ghana including corned beef stew, Ghana Jollof, Ghana meat pie, Ice Kenkey ...
The Gonja are a Guan people who have been influenced by Dagbon, Akan, Mande and Hausa people. With the fall of the Songhai Empire (c. 1600), the Mande Ngbanya clan moved south, crossing the Black Volta and founding their capital city at Yagbum under the leadership of Naba'a. [2]
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 ...