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The Indo-Aryan peoples and Sindhi, who were the first Indians to arrive in Ghana, initially came as merchants and shopkeepers, and gradually, in the 1950s and 1960s, a few ventures out in the manufacturing industries such as garments, plastics, textiles, insecticides, electronics, pharmaceutical industry, optical goods etc. [2] Some Indians who have lived in Ghana for most of their lives have ...
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.
Cloth as Metaphor: (re)reading the Adinkra cloth symbols of the Akan of Ghana by Dr George F. Kojo Arthur. Legon, Ghana: Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems, 2001. 187 [6], p. 29 cm. ISBN 9988-0-0791-4; African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home by Lisa Shepard. ISBN 0-87341-789-5
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, The Ga and Adangbe in, around, and East of Accra, The Guan people in the rainforest, The Dagombas, Mamprusi, and related peoples in the North, The Gurunsi languages speaking peoples in the far North,
Theodosia Okoh (1922–2015), teacher and designer of Ghana's national flag Albert Opoku (1915–2002), printmaker, painter, choreographer, and dancer Zohra Opoku (born 1976), German-born Ghanaian textile artist and photographer
Figurative palanquin; drawing by Ataa Oko from Ghana A figurative palanquin connected with the totem of its owner is a special kind of litter used in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana . These palanquins called in the Ga language okadi akpakai belong to the royal insignias and are used only by the Ga kings or mantsemei and their sub-chiefs when ...
Coat of arms of Ghana; Armiger: Republic of Ghana: Adopted: 4 March 1957: Crest: A black star bordered in gold: Torse: Gold, green and red: Shield: Azure on a cross vert fimbriated Or a lion passant guardant Or, in the first quarter a linguist's staff and ceremonial sword crossed in saltire Or, in the second quarter issuant from five bars wavy Argent and Azure a castle Argent upon a mount Or ...
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