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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] An estimated diaspora population of 4 million people worldwide are of Ghanaian descent. [32]
Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana, that largely arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century – the decade between 1471 and 1482, until the mid-20th century, circa 1957, when Ghana attained its independence from the United Kingdom.
Map of Africa and the African diaspora throughout the world. The genetic history of the African diaspora is composed of the overall genetic history of the African diaspora, within regions outside of Africa, such as North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia; this includes the genetic histories of African Americans, Afro-Canadians, Afro-Caribbeans ...
New York City metropolitan area and Washington, D.C. metropolitan area have the highest numbers of Ghanaian immigrants. [8] The state with the largest number of immigrants from Ghana is New York, followed by Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland. [8] The 2010 U.S. Census tallied 91,322 Ghanaian Americans living in the United States. [9]
While small in number, the Ghana-born steadily increased from the mid-1970s following the easing of immigration restrictions. [2] The majority of Ghanaian Australians are skilled and educated, with 70.6% of the Ghana-born aged 15 years and over possessing higher non-school qualifications, compared to 55.9% of the Australian population. [2]
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 ...
The Clerk family was founded by Alexander Worthy Clerk (1820 – 1906), a Jamaican Moravian missionary who arrived in the Danish Protectorate of Christiansborg – the suburb of Osu in Accra, Gold Coast, now Ghana, on either Easter Sunday, 16 April or Easter Monday, 17 April 1843 as per differing historical accounts.
The Ghanaian Sphinx: Reflections on the Contemporary History of Ghana, 1972–1987. Accra, 1989. Mfantsipim and the making of Ghana: A Centenary History, 1876–1976. Accra, 1996. Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante–British War of 1900–1. Accra, 2003. Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Adu Boahen Reader. Trenton, NJ, 2005.