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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]
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
The first people to arrive from the region then known as the Gold Coast were brought as slaves via the Atlantic slave trade. Several ethnic groups such as the Akan, the Ganga [4] or the Ga people were imported as well to the modern United States and the third of these groups appear to have an influence on the language of the Gullah people.
The Dangme people occupy the coastal area of Ghana from Kpone to Ada, on the Volta River and South Atlantic Ocean along the Gulf of Guinea and inland along the Volta River. The Dangme People include the Ada, Kpone, Krobo, Ningo, Osudoku, Prampram, and Shai, all speaking Dangbe of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages. [7]
Rocky Dawuni [1] is a Ghanaian singer, a four-time Grammy-nominee, [2] [3] songwriter and record producer who performs his signature 'Afro Roots' sound which is a mixture of Reggae, Afrobeats, Highlife and Soul music.
The Agnis people (or Anyi) are an Akan people living in West Africa. There are approximately 1,200,000 of them, mainly in the Ivory Coast. They also live in Ghana. They were the first people in this region to have come into contact with the European colonizers during the 18th century.
The woman behind an infamous clip of a road-raging mom now known as "Kidz Bop Karen" has spoken out following the harrowing incident.. Chelsea Klein, 29, told In The Know that the woman at the ...
The Bono, also called the Brong and the Abron, are an Akan people of West Africa. Bonos are normally tagged Akan piesie or Akandifo of which Akan is a derivative name. Bono is the genesis and cradle of Akans. [1] Bono is one of the largest ethnic group of Akan and are matrilineal people. [2] [3] Bono people speak the Bono Twi.