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Located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the central business district, Osu is a neighborhood in central Accra, Ghana, West Africa. It is locally known as the "West End" of Accra. [1] Bounded to the south by the Gulf of Guinea, Osu's western boundary is the Independence Avenue. Osu is separated from the northern district of Labone by Ring ...
Osu Castle (also known as Fort Christiansborg or the Castle) is a castle located in Osu, Ghana, on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Africa. A substantial fort was built by Denmark-Norway in the 1660s; thereafter, the fort changed ownership between Denmark-Norway, Portugal , the Akwamu , Britain , and finally post-Independence Ghana .
Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI was therefore inducted into the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs as Paramount Chief of Osu. [ 3 ] [ 21 ] The inclusion of the name “Kinka” in his stool name is a significant linkage to Kinka We (Kinka Quarter), where the two royal houses of Osu ( Dowuona and Owuo ) as well as the Dadebu Shrine are based.
An Old machine gun at Christianborg castle in Osu, Accra. One of these Accran towns which got attacked, were Osu, which was located in close proximity to the Danish fort and capital of the Danish Gold Coast, Christiansborg. [2] [9] In 1678, the Akwamu State's warrior army launched an attack on Osu as a part of their campaign against Accra.
Nana Asamani (or "Asameni") was the first black Governor of Christiansborg Castle, [1] located in Osu, Accra, Ghana, on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Asamani was known as the Akwamuhene who tricked the Danes and seized Christiansborg Castle in 1693.
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.
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions is the collective designation by UNESCO of European-style fortifications and outposts (mostly Portuguese, Dutch and British) along the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) during the colonial period.
Downtown Accra is the site of the government ministries, and the districts of Victoriaborg, West Ridge, and East Ridge.. Surrounding downtown are the neighbourhoods of the Adabraka, Asylum Down, Jamestown, Swalaba, North Ridge, Tudu and Christiansborg/Osu.