government
- The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is the Government of Ghana agency established to encourage, promote and facilitate investments in all sectors of the economy of Ghana except mining and petroleum which are handled by the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
Company
- springfield group
- global lighting centre http://www.globallightingcentre.com/contact_us.php
industry
- https://www.modernghana.com/news/878170/a-lot-of-banks-will-collapse.html
trade and investment environment
people
- John Dramani Mahama (/məˈhɑːmə/; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as President on 24 July 2012 following the death of his predecessor,[1] John Atta Mills.[2] Mahama is a communication expert, historian, and writer. He was a Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from 1998 to 2001. He is a member of the NDC (National Democratic Congress).Mahama is the first vice president to take over the presidency from the death of his predecessor, Prof. John Atta Mills, and is the first head of state of Ghana to have been born after Ghana's independence. He was elected after December 2012 electionto serve as full time President.[3] He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo,[4] whom he defeated in 2012. This made him the first President in the history of Ghana to not have won a second term.Mahama is married to Lordina Mahama (née Effah, 6 March 1963). Mahama has five children named Shafik, Shahid, Sharaf, Jesse and Farida. He is a Christian, born and raised a Presbyterian but is now a member of the Assemblies of God, Ghana by marriage.[10] His family is multi-faith, consisting of Christians and Muslims.Mahama received an honorary doctorate in the field of Public Administration, from the Ekiti State University of Nigeria, formerly affiliated to the Obafemi Awolowo University in "recognition of his politico-socio economic development of Ghana and Africa at various stages of his political career. Later the same university passed a resolution to name its Faculty of Management Science after him. The Cuban government, recognising Mahama's relentless advocacy for the Cuban cause, namely for the lifting of the 50-year economic embargo on the communist country and for the freedom of the detained Cuban five by the United States government, conferred on him the Friendship Medal.
- Kofi Atta Annan (/ˈkoʊfi
Economy
- http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21654648-africas-former-jewel-struggles-regain-its-gleam-mighty-fallen
Electricity supply
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa56bb02-2481-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html
Four years after the onset of oil production, Ghana is grappling with a fiscal crisis that forced the government to seek a $1 billion International Monetary Fund programme earlier this year. The government argues that electricity shortages indicate the country has become a victim of its own success: “Which developed country records a 12 per cent growth (annually) in demand for power? None,” said power minister Kwabena Donkor. Demand for power rose when oil began flowing in 2011 and economic growth surged to above 14 per cent, as an emerging middle class and a nouveau riche needed more energy to power their lifestyles. “The increasing Ghanaian middle class has a thirst for power. We regret that supply has not caught up with demand that also arises out of our exponential growth,” Mr Donkor said. Growth is now forecast at 3.9 per cent in 2015, reflecting higher public spending and last year’s drop in commodity prices. Yet demand for power remains high and could hinder growth.
Energy
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d428437c-a648-11e4-89e5-00144feab7de.html Vitol (swiss based, dutch owned), one of the world’s leading commodities traders, is to develop a $7bn offshore oil and gas project in Ghana with ENI, the Italian energy group. The development, called Offshore Cap Three Point, will produce 15 years’ worth of gas for Ghana’s domestic power stations as well as crude oil for sale on international markets. It is the largest project backed by foreign investment in Ghana since the country gained independence in the 1950s.
christianity
- https://www.ft.com/content/e6ceaa00-dddc-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92b Plans to build a colossal cathedral by renowned Ghanaian architect David Adjaye in Accra have resurrected a species thought to be extinct — white elephants. Supporters say the $100m construction, which will require the demolition of a number of recent government buildings, will be an important statement of national ambition. The west African country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo, who gifted the land for the project, insists that Ghanaian Christians, who make up roughly 70 per cent of the population, need a symbol. But in a country with high debt and an annual per capita income below $2,000, the plans have revived memories of the “Basilica in the Bush”, the largest church in the world built in the 1980s by the then life-long leader of Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
ethnic people
- Ashanti (/ˈæʃɑːnˈtiː/ ) also known as Asante are an ethnic group native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. The people of ashanti speak the Asante dialect of Twi. The language is spoken by over nine million ethnic Asante people as a first or second language. The word Ashanti is synonym to Ashan in old testament of the Holy Bible. Asante is often assumed to mean "because of wars". The wealthy gold-rich Asante people developed the large and influential Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta and Gulf of Guinea. The empire was founded in 1670, and the Ashanti capital Kumasi was founded in 1680 the late 17th century by Asantehene(emperor) Osei Kofi Tutu I on the advice of Ɔkͻmfoͻ Anͻkye, his premier. Sited at the crossroads of the Trans-Saharan trade routes, the Kumasi megacity's strategic location contributed significantly to its growing wealth.[5] Over the duration of the Kumasi metropolis' existence, a number of peculiar factors have combined to transform the Kumasi metropolis into a fitting financial centre and political capital.[5] The main causal factors included the unquestioning loyalty to the Ashanti monarchy and the Kumasi metropolis' growing wealth, derived in part from the capital's lucrative domestic-trade in items such as bullion.
History
- The Ashanti (also spelled Asante) Empire (1701–1957) was an Akan empire and kingdom in what is now modern-day Ghana. The Ashanti Empire expanded fromAshanti to include the Brong-Ahafo, Central region, Eastern region, Greater Accra region, and Western region, of present-day Ghana. Ashanti people used military power due to effective strategy and early firearm adoption to create an empire that stretched from central Ghana to the present-day Ivory Coast. Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy and culture, the Ashanti empire was extensively studied and has more historiographies by European, primarily British, authors than almost any other indigenous culture of Sub-Saharan Africa. Starting in the late 17th century, the Ashanti king Osei Tutu (c. 1695 – 1717) and his advisor Okomfo Anokye, established the Ashanti Kingdom, with the Golden Stoolof Asante as a sole unifying symbol. Osei Tutu oversaw a massive Ashanti territorial expansion,[3] building up the army by introducing new organization and turning a disciplined royal and paramilitary army into an effective fighting machine.[3] In 1701, the Ashanti army conquered Denkyira, giving the Ashanti access to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean coastal trade with Europeans, notably the Dutch. The Ashanti Kingdom is the home to Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana's only natural lake. The state's current economic revenue is derived mainly from trading in gold bars,cocoa, kola nuts and agriculture; forest has also been cleared to plant cassava, maize and yams.[4] Today the Ashanti monarchy continues as a constitutionally protected, sub-nation state and traditional state within Ghana.
- Akuapem and Akropong were kingdom-states in South-Eastern Ghana. With the enthronement of the Akyem King in 1773 to the throne of Akropong alongside the throne of Akuapem, the kingdom became a double state known as the Akropong–Akuapem Kingdom. King Oseadeeyo Addo Dankwa III of Akropong held the "sacred seat" of the Akuapem-Asona, one of the seven major Akan clans, for sixteen years. In 1733, Akwamu launched his army against the city-State of Akropong, which had been spared from the Ashanti conquests. To defend itself, the city called upon soldiers who liked war, the Akim, and who are also the hereditary enemies of the Ashanti. Akropong was saved, and as a reward, the chief(king) of the Akim was enthroned as the King of Akropong.
- 西非國家加納國會上周通過與美國達成的防衞協議，同意美方使用當地的機場及部署軍隊，引起民眾強烈不滿。加納首都阿克拉周三有逾三千人示威，批評協議是出賣國家，擔心此舉令國家成為恐怖分子的目標及損害主權。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180331/00180_014.html
chinese
- 正當中國官媒和網民炮轟瑞典電視台取笑中國人愛隨地便溺之際，一段中國男子在西非國家加納隨便在花園大便的短片在網絡瘋傳。事件引起外國網民熱議，有外媒更批評，中國人無法無天，公然無視加納的法律。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180929/00178_015.html
- telecom
- machinery
- water
- The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) is the Government of Ghana agency established to encourage, promote and facilitate investments in all sectors of the economy of Ghana except mining and petroleum which are handled by the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
- The Ghana Free Zones Authority [GFZA] was established on 31st August 1995 by an Act of Parliament to enable the establishment of free zones in Ghana for the promotion of economic development, to provide for the regulation of activities in free zones and for related purposes. http://gfzb.gov.gh
Company
- springfield group
- https://www.ft.com/content/59ef856e-088d-11ea-b2d6-9bf4d1957a67A Ghanaian company says it has made history by becoming the first independent African energy group to discover oil in deep water after its drilling revealed significant quantities of oil off the coast of Ghana. The Springfield Group, which has no history of oil exploration, will in the next few days announce it has made two discoveries totalling 1.2bn barrels of crude in a block that it says will be bigger than the Jubilee field, Ghana’s biggest. The Jubilee field, operated by the UK’s Tullow Oil, is one of Africa’s largest recent finds and propelled Texas-based Kosmos Energy, which discovered it in 2007, to a New York and subsequent London listing. Ghana expects to be producing about 250,000 barrels of oil a day by next year, which would make it the fourth-largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa. If Springfield’s claims are confirmed, the new discovery could significantly boost production in the west African country. “We are the first African company to drill in deep water and to find oil,” said Kevin Okyere, Springfield’s chief executive and a former telecoms entrepreneur. “Nigeria has had oil for a long time and no indigenous company there has ever done this.” Mr Okyere said Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana’s president, would join a ceremony to announce the find. Ghana’s government has an 18 per cent stake in the block.
- global lighting centre http://www.globallightingcentre.com/contact_us.php
industry
- https://www.modernghana.com/news/878170/a-lot-of-banks-will-collapse.html
trade and investment environment
- customs
- Effective today, June 1, 2020, all transactions related to the import and export of goods at the various ports will be conducted through the one-stop service for all customs clearance procedures, dubbed Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS).Ghana Link Services Limited, which has a 10-year contract with the Government of Ghana as technical partner, contracted CUPIA of Korea to deploy its electronic customs management system, called Universal Pass (UNI-PASS) which is now known as the Integrated Customs Management System ICUMS, for Ghana’s trade facilitation.https://www.modernghana.com/news/1006017/icums-takes-over-tema-port-today.html
people
- John Dramani Mahama (/məˈhɑːmə/; born 29 November 1958) is a Ghanaian politician who served as President of Ghana from 24 July 2012 to 7 January 2017. He previously served as Vice President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 2012, and took office as President on 24 July 2012 following the death of his predecessor,[1] John Atta Mills.[2] Mahama is a communication expert, historian, and writer. He was a Member of Parliament for Bole Bamboi from 1997 to 2009 and Minister of Communications from 1998 to 2001. He is a member of the NDC (National Democratic Congress).Mahama is the first vice president to take over the presidency from the death of his predecessor, Prof. John Atta Mills, and is the first head of state of Ghana to have been born after Ghana's independence. He was elected after December 2012 electionto serve as full time President.[3] He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo,[4] whom he defeated in 2012. This made him the first President in the history of Ghana to not have won a second term.Mahama is married to Lordina Mahama (née Effah, 6 March 1963). Mahama has five children named Shafik, Shahid, Sharaf, Jesse and Farida. He is a Christian, born and raised a Presbyterian but is now a member of the Assemblies of God, Ghana by marriage.[10] His family is multi-faith, consisting of Christians and Muslims.Mahama received an honorary doctorate in the field of Public Administration, from the Ekiti State University of Nigeria, formerly affiliated to the Obafemi Awolowo University in "recognition of his politico-socio economic development of Ghana and Africa at various stages of his political career. Later the same university passed a resolution to name its Faculty of Management Science after him. The Cuban government, recognising Mahama's relentless advocacy for the Cuban cause, namely for the lifting of the 50-year economic embargo on the communist country and for the freedom of the detained Cuban five by the United States government, conferred on him the Friendship Medal.
- Kofi Atta Annan (/ˈkoʊfi
- Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) on 8 April 1938. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's Ashanti and Fante aristocratic families; both of their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs. In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday. Annan said that his surname rhymes with "cannon" in English.
Economy
- http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21654648-africas-former-jewel-struggles-regain-its-gleam-mighty-fallen
Electricity supply
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fa56bb02-2481-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c.html
Four years after the onset of oil production, Ghana is grappling with a fiscal crisis that forced the government to seek a $1 billion International Monetary Fund programme earlier this year. The government argues that electricity shortages indicate the country has become a victim of its own success: “Which developed country records a 12 per cent growth (annually) in demand for power? None,” said power minister Kwabena Donkor. Demand for power rose when oil began flowing in 2011 and economic growth surged to above 14 per cent, as an emerging middle class and a nouveau riche needed more energy to power their lifestyles. “The increasing Ghanaian middle class has a thirst for power. We regret that supply has not caught up with demand that also arises out of our exponential growth,” Mr Donkor said. Growth is now forecast at 3.9 per cent in 2015, reflecting higher public spending and last year’s drop in commodity prices. Yet demand for power remains high and could hinder growth.
Energy
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d428437c-a648-11e4-89e5-00144feab7de.html Vitol (swiss based, dutch owned), one of the world’s leading commodities traders, is to develop a $7bn offshore oil and gas project in Ghana with ENI, the Italian energy group. The development, called Offshore Cap Three Point, will produce 15 years’ worth of gas for Ghana’s domestic power stations as well as crude oil for sale on international markets. It is the largest project backed by foreign investment in Ghana since the country gained independence in the 1950s.
gold industry
- https://www.ft.com/content/f66e6bef-6e38-48fa-9637-0a29ce39e1e4Ghana wants to complete the stock market flotation of its gold royalty company after elections in December, according to finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta who said the west African country could not continue to “borrow, borrow, borrow”. Africa’s biggest gold producer is seeking to raise $500m from the sale of up to 49 per cent of Agyapa Royalties on the London and Ghana stock exchanges. The money raised will be invested by the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo in education, health, housing and infrastructure. But the listing is on hold until Ghana’s special prosecutor has completed a review to check if any elements of the deal, which will create the first Africa-focused minerals royalty company, were corrupt. Gold accounts for nearly half of Ghana’s export revenues and like cocoa, its other major export, it is politically sensitive. Sceptics argue that the royalties deal lacks transparency and was rushed through parliament but the government has said such criticism from the opposition is motivated by looming presidential elections in December. Bright Simons, a researcher with the Imani think-tank and spokesman for a coalition of civil society groups opposed to the deal, said their analysis found the government had “grossly undervalued the gold revenues by at least 60 per cent”. “The government's refusal to share the underwriting agreement it has with the various investment banks and transaction advisers with parliament, and the decision to shield the investment vehicle behind Jersey’s trust secrecy laws, seriously interferes with the ability of civil society to hold the deal to basic transparency and integrity standards,” he said. Opponents have also pointed out that Mr Osafo-Maafo is the son of senior cabinet minister and a school friend of the deputy finance minister.
- https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/09/26/ghana-is-planning-to-sell-most-of-its-future-gold-royalties
christianity
- https://www.ft.com/content/e6ceaa00-dddc-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92b Plans to build a colossal cathedral by renowned Ghanaian architect David Adjaye in Accra have resurrected a species thought to be extinct — white elephants. Supporters say the $100m construction, which will require the demolition of a number of recent government buildings, will be an important statement of national ambition. The west African country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo, who gifted the land for the project, insists that Ghanaian Christians, who make up roughly 70 per cent of the population, need a symbol. But in a country with high debt and an annual per capita income below $2,000, the plans have revived memories of the “Basilica in the Bush”, the largest church in the world built in the 1980s by the then life-long leader of Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
ethnic people
- Ashanti (/ˈæʃɑːnˈtiː/ ) also known as Asante are an ethnic group native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. The people of ashanti speak the Asante dialect of Twi. The language is spoken by over nine million ethnic Asante people as a first or second language. The word Ashanti is synonym to Ashan in old testament of the Holy Bible. Asante is often assumed to mean "because of wars". The wealthy gold-rich Asante people developed the large and influential Ashanti Empire, along the Lake Volta and Gulf of Guinea. The empire was founded in 1670, and the Ashanti capital Kumasi was founded in 1680 the late 17th century by Asantehene(emperor) Osei Kofi Tutu I on the advice of Ɔkͻmfoͻ Anͻkye, his premier. Sited at the crossroads of the Trans-Saharan trade routes, the Kumasi megacity's strategic location contributed significantly to its growing wealth.[5] Over the duration of the Kumasi metropolis' existence, a number of peculiar factors have combined to transform the Kumasi metropolis into a fitting financial centre and political capital.[5] The main causal factors included the unquestioning loyalty to the Ashanti monarchy and the Kumasi metropolis' growing wealth, derived in part from the capital's lucrative domestic-trade in items such as bullion.
- In the Asante Twi dialect, Asantefo (/ˈæsɑːnˈtɪfoʊ/ ASS-ahn-TIF-oh); singular masculine: Asantenibarima, singular feminine: Asantenibaa. The name Asante "warlike" derives from the 1670s as the Asante went from being a tributary state to a centralized hierarchical kingdom.[4][6] Asantehene Osei Tutu I, military leader and head of the adwinehene clan, founded the Asante Empire.[4][6] Osei Tutu I obtained the support of other clan chiefs and, using Kumasi as the central base, subdued surrounding Akan states.[4][6] Osei Tutu challenged and eventually defeated Denkyirain 1701,[4][6] and this is the alleged modern origin of the name.
- Ashanti people myth - anansi the spider, sky god nyame, onini the python, osebo the leopard, mmoboro the hornet, mmoatia the invisible fairy
- The Ahanta/Ayinda are Akan People who live to the north and east of the Nzema. The Ahanta land has been historically known as one of the richest areas on the coast of what is now Ghana.The Ahanta land spans from Beposo to Ankobra in what is now the Western Region of the Republic of Ghana, a regional power in the form of a confederacy of chiefdoms which had come in early contact with the European nations settling on the Gold Coast for the purpose of trade.The name "Ahanta" derives from nta, Akan for "the twins".
- people
- Badu Bonsu II was a leader of the Ahanta and a Ghanaian king who was executed in 1838 by the Dutch, who, at the time, were in control of the Dutch Gold Coast. In 1837, Badu Bonsu II rebelled against the Dutch government, and killed several officers, including acting governor Hendrik Tonneboeijer. The Dutch government used the Treaty of Butre as the basis for military action against Badu Bonsu and an expeditionary force was sent to Ahanta. In the war that followed, the king was captured, sentenced for murder, and hanged. The Dutch disorganised the Ahanta state, appointing their commandant of Fort Batenstein at Butre as regent, keeping the country under close control with an enlarged military and civilian presence.[2] Following the execution of king Badu Bonsu, his body was desecrated as a Dutch surgeon removed his head. The head was taken to the Netherlands, where it was soon lost for more than a century.The head was rediscovered in the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands by Dutch author Arthur Japin, who had read the account of the head during research for his 1997 novel De zwarte met het witte hart. Japin found the head in 2005, stored in formaldehyde at the LUMC.[4][5] In March 2009, government officials announced that it would be returned to its homeland for proper burial,[6][7] a promise fulfilled on July 23, 2009, after a ceremony held in The Hague.
- https://www.modernghana.com/news/1095242/exactly-183-years-today-badu-bonsu-ii-was-killed.html In 1830, Badu Bonsu II started having troubles with the Dutch who were using the Butre treaty which was signed on 27th August 1656 as a basis to continously exploit Ahanta. Badu Bonso II disputed the terms and references of the Butre treaty and that brought hostilities between him and the Dutch officials in Gold Coast. For 8 years, Badu Bonsu II was at loggerheads with them. The crisis heightened when Badu Bonso II banned the sale of guns and gunpowder in Ahanta and forbade selling them to neighboring tribes especially the Wassas. The ban on sale of guns and gunpowder went against trade and economic interests of Dutch in Ahanta so they instigated some subchiefs of Badu Bonso II against him. One of such subchiefs was Eteroe of Sekondi.Badu Bonso II had healthy relationship with Eteroe of Sekondi and even had one of his female relatives panyared to Eteroe of Sekondi but soon the Dutch made their relationship sour and bad. It was said that Badu Bonso II passed a death sentence on Eteroe of Sekondi when he realized that with the connivance of the Dutch, he was secretly selling guns and gunpowder to the Wassas. Eteroe sought refuge with the Dutch and eventually the matter reached Hendrick Tonneboijier who was then the acting Dutch governor of Gold Coast stationed at Elmina.In February 1837, news reached Hague, the capital of the Netherlands that Badu Bonso II had killed Tonneboijier and several Dutch officials in the Gold Coast. William, I quickly conveyed meetings and selected Gen. Jan Verveer to lead an expedition of 200 mercenaries to Ahanta to quell what they described as rebellion. The expedition landed in Elmina in May 1838 and in the days that followed, Gen. Jan Verveer would go round and mobilise local forces from Fante, Wassa, Sekondi, Axim and other tribes in addition to the 200 mercenaries he brought from Hague in his bid to launch an attack on Badu Bonso II.In July 1838, Gen. Jan Verveer and his forces set for Ahanta. After a fierce battle between Badu Bonso II and his forces, Badu Bonsu II was arrested on 26th July 1838. He was brought to Butre and after what the Dutch called public trial and conviction, they hanged Badu Bonso II to death on 27th July 1838 at the exact spot he earlier killed Gearge Maasen and Adrian Cremer. A medical officer at Elmina castle called Schillet removed his head and placed it in Formahyde jar and they took it to Elmina and later sent it to Hague. The only reason Schillet was assigned for removing Badu Bonso II's head was for curiosity sake. Several Ahanta royals particularly from Busua and Takoradi were also taken along and in August 1838, some of them were hanged at Elmina. The remaining were placed on board a ship to the Dutch West Indies.Busua and Takoradi were completely destroyed and several Ahantas fled. Many towns went extinct and for 10 years, there was no Ahanta king until Hima Dekyi of Dixcove ensured that a king was put on the throne later. The newly installed king died shortly and other successive kings were going to die mysterious and in very unexplained circumstances. The mysterious deaths of the successive kings triggered fears among the royals of Busua especially the women. It was so fearful that royal women started hiding their male children to prevent them from being installed as kings. Others also fled Busua with their male children and never returned.In April 1872, the Dutch sold all their trade possessions in Ahanta to the English and left Ahanta for good.
History
- The Ashanti (also spelled Asante) Empire (1701–1957) was an Akan empire and kingdom in what is now modern-day Ghana. The Ashanti Empire expanded fromAshanti to include the Brong-Ahafo, Central region, Eastern region, Greater Accra region, and Western region, of present-day Ghana. Ashanti people used military power due to effective strategy and early firearm adoption to create an empire that stretched from central Ghana to the present-day Ivory Coast. Due to the empire's military prowess, wealth, architecture, sophisticated hierarchy and culture, the Ashanti empire was extensively studied and has more historiographies by European, primarily British, authors than almost any other indigenous culture of Sub-Saharan Africa. Starting in the late 17th century, the Ashanti king Osei Tutu (c. 1695 – 1717) and his advisor Okomfo Anokye, established the Ashanti Kingdom, with the Golden Stoolof Asante as a sole unifying symbol. Osei Tutu oversaw a massive Ashanti territorial expansion,[3] building up the army by introducing new organization and turning a disciplined royal and paramilitary army into an effective fighting machine.[3] In 1701, the Ashanti army conquered Denkyira, giving the Ashanti access to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean coastal trade with Europeans, notably the Dutch. The Ashanti Kingdom is the home to Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana's only natural lake. The state's current economic revenue is derived mainly from trading in gold bars,cocoa, kola nuts and agriculture; forest has also been cleared to plant cassava, maize and yams.[4] Today the Ashanti monarchy continues as a constitutionally protected, sub-nation state and traditional state within Ghana.
- Fontomfrom is an Ashanti type of hourglass-shaped drum mostly used by an ensemble of Ashanti people to communicate Ashanti monarchy royal messages in anAshanti people ethnic group setting.
Note link with denmark and repatriation of cultural property to ghana
- Akuapem and Akropong were kingdom-states in South-Eastern Ghana. With the enthronement of the Akyem King in 1773 to the throne of Akropong alongside the throne of Akuapem, the kingdom became a double state known as the Akropong–Akuapem Kingdom. King Oseadeeyo Addo Dankwa III of Akropong held the "sacred seat" of the Akuapem-Asona, one of the seven major Akan clans, for sixteen years. In 1733, Akwamu launched his army against the city-State of Akropong, which had been spared from the Ashanti conquests. To defend itself, the city called upon soldiers who liked war, the Akim, and who are also the hereditary enemies of the Ashanti. Akropong was saved, and as a reward, the chief(king) of the Akim was enthroned as the King of Akropong.
- Note link with denmark and repatriation of cultural property to ghana
- 西非國家加納國會上周通過與美國達成的防衞協議，同意美方使用當地的機場及部署軍隊，引起民眾強烈不滿。加納首都阿克拉周三有逾三千人示威，批評協議是出賣國家，擔心此舉令國家成為恐怖分子的目標及損害主權。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180331/00180_014.html
- 正當中國官媒和網民炮轟瑞典電視台取笑中國人愛隨地便溺之際，一段中國男子在西非國家加納隨便在花園大便的短片在網絡瘋傳。事件引起外國網民熱議，有外媒更批評，中國人無法無天，公然無視加納的法律。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180929/00178_015.html
- 中國駐加納大使館前日通報稱，加納阿散蒂省（Ashanti Region）上周六發生一宗入屋搶劫殺人案，導致兩名中國公民中槍身亡，一人受輕傷。當地警方目前仍未拘捕任何人。使館表示，將會繼續密切跟進案件，要求加納警方盡快破案，並對受害人善後事宜提供領事協助。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20201201/00178_027.html
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- https://www.modernghana.com/news/351371/gtuc-huawei-sign-pact.html The Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) and Huawei Technologies S.A Ghana Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of cooperation in Accra. Under the terms of the MOU, GTUC and Huawei will, among other things, establish a formal relationship in order to promote capacity-building and the exchange of best practices; involve Huawei in all major activities organized by GTUC, activities such as participation in career fairs, job recruitment, training and related activities; and to enhance professional skills of GTUC and Huawei staff through training, staff interactions and exchange of experiences and information.
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- 振华重工宣布，公司与非洲加纳子午线港口服务公司签约，将为特马港提供7台岸桥和20台场桥，这是加纳共和国迄今为止採购的最大港机订单。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170825/PDF/a8_screen.pdf
- 加納東北地區一個黃金礦洞早前遭放置「毒炸彈」，導致七名非法礦工吸入毒煙死亡。當地一個礦工組織把矛頭直指一間中國公司的員工，計劃發起大型反華示威，旨在趕走當地的中國人。oriental daily 14apr17
- Ghana’s push to crack down on illegal gold mining is winning praise from the public but inflaming tensions with China, its biggest trading partner.https://www.ft.com/content/cb032036-2a63-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c
- https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3032697/activists-ghana-lead-two-year-fight-against-chinese-bauxite-mine Ghana aims to use the proceeds of refined bauxite sales, the ore of aluminium, to finance a US$2 billion deal with China’s state owned Sinohydro Corp to build roads and bridges. In May, the government of President Nana Akufo-Addo invited international investors to submit bids on mining bauxite deposits in Atewa, Nyinahin and Awaso – said to be worth a combined US$460 billion, according to the government.Ghana has created a state-owned company – Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation – to help establish an industry. While some are swayed by the prospects of better paid jobs, there is fierce opposition to the deal. Environmentalists have led public demonstrations and petitions, gathering more than 160,000 signatures since the deal was finalised in 2017. Atewa is a part of the Upper Guinean Rainforest, named one of the most critical ecosystems on the planet by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
- A construction team from Wuhan, Hubei province, has helped ease difficulties in obtaining drinking water for nearly 8 million Africans over the past 20 years. The team, which has provided supplies of pure underground water, began to dig the first well in February 1998, and now 4,700 wells have been built in the northern provinces of Ghana, West Africa - about the same number as there are in Hubei. Despite a wealth of gold and ivory resources, Ghana's infrastructure had declined and people had relatively low living standards, earning the equivalent of about 10 yuan ($1.40) a day. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2018-11/03/content_37191835.htm
- 和莎奈爾一同進入太原理工大學學習漢語言的薩莫德來自加納，已有三年的中文學習經歷。他把「沙漠」作為中文名，希望可以在艱苦的環境下鍛煉意志。談及不遠萬里來中國求學的原因，二人不約而同地回答道，「我們在自己的國家，都深受中國文化的感染。」薩莫德說，在加納有很多華人，但能和他們交流的非洲人特別少。在加納大學學習中文時，就在中國老師的影響下，對中國充滿好奇。「我讀過一首古詩，作者記不太清了，但裡面的句子印象很深。」接着，薩莫德背出了蘇軾《題西林壁》裡的「不識廬山真面目，只緣身在此山中」。他認為，中國的古詩裡有種特殊的韻味，值得細細琢磨，這在非洲是體會不到的。聊到未來，薩莫德和莎奈爾都選擇回家傳播中文。「我打算畢業後回到牙買加繼續做與中文有關的工作，可能會當中文老師，也可能選擇做翻譯。」莎奈爾說。而薩莫德願意在中國繼續停留一段時間，把中國文化了解得更透徹後，再回到加納傳播中國文化。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/02/01/a21-0201.pdf
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