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Ghana, officially called the
Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign multinational state and unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the
Gulf of Guinea and
Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of
West Africa. Ghana is the
82nd largest country in the world and 33rd largest country on continental
Africa by land mass, and Ghana has a land mass of
238,535 km squared, with 2,093 kilometres of international land borders.
The country is bordered by the
Ivory Coast in the west,
Burkina Faso in the north,
Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. The word Ghana means "
Warrior King". Ghana has been a significant petroleum and natural gas producer since
December 2010, and one of the world's largest gold and diamond producers, and is projected to be the largest producer of cocoa in the world as of
2015. Ghana is the 7th-best governed country, 5th-most stable country and rated thirteenth-highest
HDI on continental Africa. Ghana's economy is the 6th-largest on the Africa continent by purchasing power parity and
Nominal GDP and is one of the fastest growing in the world. This made Ghana a
symbol of black achievement and helped to inspire other
African nations to seek independence. It also had a major influence on Pan-Africanism and the
Black Pride movements in the
United States of America. Ghanaian cuisine and gastronomy is diverse, and includes an assortment of soups and stews with varied seafoods and most
Ghanaian soups are prepared with vegetables, meat, poultry or fish.
Fish is important in the Ghanaian diet with tilapia, roasted and fried whitebait, smoked fish and crayfish all being common components of Ghanaian dishes. Banku is a common Ghanaian starchy food made from ground corn (maize), and cornmeal based staples, dokonu (kenkey) and banku are usually accompanied by some form of fried fish (chinam) or grilled tilapia and a very spicy condiment made from raw red and green chillies, onions and tomatoes (pepper sauce). The Ghanaian national literature radio program and accompanying publication
Voices of Ghana was one of the earliest on the
African continent. The most prominent Ghanaian authors are novelists;
J. E. Casely Hayford,
Ayi Kwei Armah and
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, who gained international acclaim with the books,
Ethiopia Unbound (
1911), The Beautyful
Ones Are
Not Yet Born (
1968) and
Tail of the
Blue Bird (2009), respectively. During the
13th century,
Ghanaians developed their unique art of adinkra printing. Hand-printed and hand-embroidered adinkra clothes were made and used exclusively by the then Ghanaian royalty for devotional ceremonies. Each of the motifs that make up the corpus of adinkra symbolism has a name and meaning derived from a proverb, a historical event, human attitude, ethology, plant life-form, or shapes of inanimate and man-made objects. These are graphically rendered in stylised geometric shapes. The meanings of the motifs may be categorised into aesthetics, ethics, human relations, and concepts.
Kente cloth, known as nwentoma in
Akan, is a type of silk and cotton fabric made of interwoven cloth strips and is native to the Akan ethnic group of
South Ghana. Kente cloth has its origin with the
Ashanti Kingdom, and was adopted by people in Ivory Coast and many other
West African counties. It is an Akan royal and sacred cloth worn only in times of extreme importance and was the cloth of kings. Over time, the use of kente became more widespread. However, its importance has remained and it is held in high esteem with Akans. There are many styles of traditional and modern music of Ghana, due to its cosmopolitan geographic position on the African continent. The best known modern genre originating in is
Highlife. For many years, Highlife was the preferred music genre until the introduction of Hiplife and many others.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana
- published: 25 Jul 2014
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