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 Ghana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
It borders the Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
Ghana has 12,630 primary schools, 5,450 junior secondary schools, 503 senior secondary schools, 21 training colleges, 18 technical institutions, two diploma-awarding institutions and five universities serving a population of 18 million; this means that most Ghanaians have relatively easy access to good education.
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 city profile accra ghana
867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea.
__ "Accra was first settled at the end of the sixteenth century when the Ga people migrated there after leaving their previous settlement at Ayawso, ten miles north of Accra.
__ "Accra was founded in the 15th century by Ga settlers, who began a profitable trade with the Portuguese in the 16th century.
www.archaeolink.com /city_study_accra_ghana.htm   (358 words)

  
 Accra
After the completion (1923) of a railroad to the mining and agricultural hinterland, Accra rapidly became the economic center of Ghana.
It is the site of the national museum, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Univ. of Ghana, and Ghana's central library.
On Accra's outskirts are Achimota School (1927), the country's leading secondary school, and, in Legon, the Univ. of Ghana (1948).
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 Marpessa Kupendua, Urgent Support Needed for genuine Encyclopedia Afrikana!!
The Ghana Academy of Sciences (formerly known as the Ghana Academy of Learning) decided at its meeting on October 31, 1960 to sponsor the project for an Encyclopedia Africana as I had outlined it.
It is planned that our Secretariat here in Accra will establish and maintain a close liaison with teams of scholars in various parts of Africa engaged in work on specific problems in their respective areas.
Further, it is expected that the Editorial Board, as it comes to be established, will be broadly representative of all Africa, the members of the Board having as their common aim the preparation and publication of an Encyclopedia Africana which is at the same time authentically African and scientific.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/30/135.html   (2257 words)

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