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They were usually referred to in southern Ghana as; Yoruba, ... indigenous Ghanaian group with origins outside modern Ghana. In the 1960 Ghanaian population census ...
The flag of the Ewe people. [1] Ewe, also written Evhe, or Eʋe, is a major dialect cluster of Gbe or Tadoid (Capo 1991, Duthie 1996) spoken in the southern parts of the Volta Region, in Ghana and across southern Togo, [22] to the Togo-Benin border by about three million people. Ewe belongs to the Gbe family of Niger-Congo.
Yorubaland (Yoruba: Ilẹ̀ Káàárọ̀-Oòjíire) is the homeland and cultural region of the Yoruba people in West Africa. It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Togo and Benin, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km 2 (54,871 sq mi). Of this land area, 106,016 km 2 (74.6%) lies within Nigeria, 18.9% in Benin, and the remaining 6. ...
Ghana's first post independence population census in 1961 counted about 6.7 million inhabitants. [10] Between 1965 and 1989, a constant 45% of Ghana total female population was of childbearing age. [10] The crude death rate of 18 per 1,000 population in 1965 fell to 13 per 1,000 population in 1992.
Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo peoples). [1] [2] [3] A 2009 genetic clustering study, which genotyped 1327 polymorphic markers in various African populations, identified six ancestral clusters.
About 22% of the population lived in large areas with populations exceeding 100,000, and over 50% lived in cities made up of 25,000 or more people. The index of urbanization in 1950 was close to that of the United States, excluding Ilorin. The Yoruba continue to be the most urbanized African ethnic group today.
The Ashanti Region currently has a population of 11 million (11,000,000). Today, as in the past, the Ashanti Region continues to make significant contributions to Ghana's economy. [ 17 ]
The Ga-Dangbe, Ga-Dangme, Ga-Adangme or Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in Ghana, Togo and Benin. The Ga or Gan and Dangbe or Dangme people are grouped as part of the Ga–Dangme ethnolinguistic group. [1][2] The Ga-Dangmes are one ethnic group that lives primarily in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Ethnic Ga family names (surnames) include ...