Asantewaa Ntim – MyGhanaDaily https://myghanadaily.com News and more Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:56:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 The Heritage of The Township of Takoradi- Part II https://myghanadaily.com/the-heritage-of-the-township-of-takoradi-part-ii/ Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:33:17 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=18335 As promised, here is part two of the heritage of the township of the oil city in Ghana, Takoradi located in the Western parts of the country. The popular Nzulezo is a village located near the village of Beyin, 90 kilometers west of Takoradi, in the Jomoro District jomoro the Western Region of Ghana. Nzulezu [...]

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]]> Heritage of the towns in Takoradi – Part I https://myghanadaily.com/heritage-of-the-towns-in-takoradi-part-i/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:19:46 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=18329 After a walk through the city of oil in Ghana, their economy, schools, tourist attractions and other, we will be looking at the various towns in Takoradi and what they are characterized by. Princes Town or Pokesu is located 5 km east of Fort St. Antonio on Manfro Hill in the Ahanta West District of [...]

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]]> Top five(5) Historical places in the Ashanti Kingdom https://myghanadaily.com/top-five5-historical-places-in-the-ashanti-kingdom/ Sat, 19 Feb 2022 07:39:17 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=12861 As defined time and again, culture is said to be the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. With one look at a community and its structures, one can easily tell the way of life of the people in said community. Just a Vine Deloria, Jr., a Lakota scholar, once said, [...]

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]]> Food culture during Christmas in Ghana https://myghanadaily.com/food-culture-during-christmas-in-ghana/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:37:45 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=19698 As a 21st-century child, I recall hearing stories about how my parents only got to eat rice during the Christmas holidays and had to share soft drinks with each other, but it was still a wonderful time for them. “Now you kids enjoy rice at any time and have the luxury of purchasing whatever beverage [...]

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]]> A Ghanaian Christmas https://myghanadaily.com/a-ghanaian-christmas/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:00:21 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=19706 Ghanaians celebrate Christmas with a variety of activities from the 20th of December through the first week of January. Many people travel to visit relatives and friends in other parts of the country. Ghana has over 66 languages spoken, each with its own set of traditions and customs. December also marks the start of the [...]

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]]> Celebrating rich Ghanaian heritage: The Akwambo festival https://myghanadaily.com/the-akwambo-celebration/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:21:27 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=19005 Ghanaians through  festivals celebrate their glorious heritage, culture and traditions . The Akwambo celebration is celebrated in August by the individuals of Agona and Gomoa areas within the Central Locale of Ghana. Akwambo actually means “path-clearing”; and it  is celebrated by the people of Agona within the Central Locale. The Akwambo festival is as a rule a week long celebration to commemorate the journey and arrival of [...]

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]]> Ghanaian World Legacy Site https://myghanadaily.com/ghanaian-world-legacy-site/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:00:02 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=18997 Fort Amsterdam, a World Legacy Site is a former slave fort in Kormantin, Central region, Ghana. It was built by the English between 1638 and 1645 as Fort Cormantin or Post Courmantyne, and was captured by admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Dutch West India Company in 1665, in striking back for the capture of a few Dutch posts by the English Admiral Holmes in [...]

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]]> The hidden gems in the Eastern Region of Ghana https://myghanadaily.com/the-hidden-gems-in-the-eastern-region-of-ghana/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:44:41 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=18838 Eastern Region, the land of mountainous view is located in the southern part of Ghana and it’s one of the sixteen administrative regions of Ghana. Bordered to the east by the Lake Volta, to the north by Bono East Region and Ashanti region, to the west by Ashanti region, to the south by Central region [...]

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]]> The multilingual nature of Ghana https://myghanadaily.com/the-multilingual-nature-of-ghana/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:51:14 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=17950 Ghana is a multilingual country with over eighty languages spoken. The official language is English, which was inherited from the colonial era. Akan is the most extensively spoken among Ghana’s indigenous languages. Akan, part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family, is a dialect continuum, but, with regard to official status, only three out of the many varieties [...]

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]]> Lake Volta: The Largest Artificial Reservoir in the World https://myghanadaily.com/lake-volta-the-largest-artificial-reservoir-in-the-world/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:33:11 +0000 http://myghanadaily.com/?p=17226 Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, is contained behind the Akosombo Dam which generates a substantial amount of Ghana’s electricity. Located in Ghana, it has a surface area of 8,502 square kilometres (3,283 sq mi; 2,101,000 acres), and extends from Akosombo in the south to the northern part of the country. The White Volta River and the Black [...]

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