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Most deliveries in Ghana are attended by untrained personnel, including traditional birth attendants, and most traditional birth attendants in rural areas are illiterate elderly farmers. [9] [8] Many women choose traditional birth attendants because of the lower cost, and because they live in the community and are able to assist quickly.
In Ghana, an Outdooring (Ga: kpodziemo; Akan: abadinto, Ewe language “vihehedego”) is the traditional naming ceremony for infants. [1] Traditionally this ceremony occurs eight days after the child is born where parents bring their newborn "outdoors" and give the child a name.
Seven days after birth, the naming ceremony is performed under the auspices of the father and/or the head of the household. The naming is done either in the indigenous traditional way, known as zugupinbu (meaning shaving of head) where a talisman or soothsayer is consulted to give a name to the new born baby or in the Islamic way, known as ...
A woman flying from Ghana to the U.S. gave birth weeks early during an 11-hour flight over the Atlantic that was en route to Washington from Accra. It was a different kind of mile-high club, not ...
Ghana entered the top 10 for the first time last year, taking ninth place with 0.6% of live births. Germany fell out of the top 10, having been there since ONS records began for this measure in 2003.
Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name. This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. During the 18th–19th centuries, enslaved people in the Caribbean from the region that is modern-day Ghana were referred to as Coromantees.
Ghana is a country of 33.48 million people and many native groups, such as: [1] [2] The Akans in the center and South of the country, ... marriage ceremonies, etc ...
There are no days off for this grad, who gave birth to a little girl and walked across the stage in her university's ceremony — all within 24 hours.