Aside from the major Christian and Islamic holidays, Ghana celebrates New Year's Day, Independence Day (6 March), Worker's Day (1 May), Republic Day (1 July), and Revolution Day (31 December). New Year's Day follows the usually western pattern of partying. Independence Day is the main...
(1957) to the democratic transition of 1993.;This dissertation, A Survivors' History of Ghana: Truth, Reconciliation and Human Rights in Post-Independence Africa, analyzes the individual memory-stories of the NRC as a window into an alternative national history that places the experiences ...
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In the first census taken after Ghana's independence in 1960, 41 percent of Ghanaians identified themselves as Christian, 38 percent as following traditional religions, 12 percent as Muslims (mostly of the Sunni sect), and nine percent as having no affiliation. Among the Christian population, ...
Ghana: defining the African challenge. In 1957, Ghana became the first African nation to achieve independence from its colonial ruler. But since then Ghana has suffered mixed political and econo... R Horton - 《Lancet》 被引量: 103发表: 2001年 ...
In the process, a major speech community, the Éwé, found themselves partitioned in roughly equal numbers into two different political entities, Ghana and Togo. The percentages are now slightly in favor of the Éwé population in Ghana. Whereas the Togolese government has not fully reconciled...
"Her fights against British colonialists is a story woven throughout the history of Ghana... She led the Ashantis troops against the British. Yaa Asantewaa's war was the last of the major wars in Africa led by a woman." - Mary Ann P.Zaw...
The Ghana Empire, also referred to as Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadou, was a historical empire situated in the western Sahel region during the classical to post-classical periods in what is now southeastern Mauritania and western Mali. Click for PDF and Googl
Museums have also contributed to this process. In Ghana, the museums of Cape Coast and Elmina, former slave-trading forts, evoke the issue of the slave trade. In Senegal, the House of Slaves on Gorée Island has become a place of pil...