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	Ghana - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Ghana’s culture is as diverse as its linguistic and geographical regions.
		Ghana is known historically for its gold mines, and the country is one of the world’s top gold producers.
		According to the nation’s constitution, adopted in 1992, Ghana is a multiparty democracy, and all citizens aged 18 and older are entitled to vote.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761570799__1/Ghana.html (7605 words)

	Ghana @ 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ghana is a leader in researching and celebrating African culture and the first country in the sub-Saharan Africa to attain independence from colonial rule on the 6 th of March 1957.
		The Republic of Ghana evokes remembrances of both the ancient Empire of Ghana and the riches of the "Gold Coast," as the area was called by the British.
		Ghana is located on the west coast of Africa, about 750 km north of the equator on the Atlantic Ocean, between the latitudes of 4-11.5 north.
	shoutghana.com (424 words)

	History of Mali - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		All of the empires arose in the area then known as the western Sudan, a vast region of savanna between the Sahara Desert to the north and the tropical rain forests along the Guinean coast to the south.
		Nevertheless, the Ghana Empire fell in 1078 as a result of invasions by the Almoravids, nomadic Muslim Berbers who expanded and spread Islam throughout northwest Africa in the late eleventh century.
		The Mali Empire began with the Malinke Kingdom of Mali on the upper Niger River in the 11th century.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Mali (2086 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ghana is bounded on the north and northwest by Burkina Faso, on the east by Togo, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Cote d'Ivoire.
		The country is named after the ancient empire of Ghana, from which the ancestors of the inhabitants of the present country are thought to have migrated.
		Ghana is a lowland country, except for range of hills on the eastern border.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /visiting/ghana/index.php (349 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - History & Culture
		The origins of Ghana are not certain, but at the start of the first millennium AD a number of clans of the Soninke people, a Mande speaking people living in the region bordering the Sahara, came together under the leadership of Dinga Cisse.
		Ancient Ghana derived power and wealth from gold and the introduction of the camel during the Trans-Saharan trade increased the quantity of goods that were transported.
		The wealth of ancient Ghana is mythically explained in the tale of Bida, the fl snake.
	www.ghana.co.uk /history/history/ancient_ghana.htm (658 words)

	History of Ghana
		Ghana is the first African country south of the Sahara to achieve independence.
		The capital of Ghana was moved from Cape Coast to Accra by the British in 1876.
		In fact, it was during that period that the mighty empire of Ghana had the time to be born and to vanish.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/ghana/history_of_ghana.htm (578 words)

	Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire
		Ghana (Wagadu), the earliest known empire of the western Sudan, first entered the historical consciousness of North Africa near the end of the eighth century but probably originated long before.
		Ghana subsequently fell to the expanding Soso kingdom.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/ghan/hd_ghan.htm (274 words)

	Ghana Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The religion of the kingdom involved emperor worship of the Ghana and worship of the Bida, a mythical sea serpent of the Niger.
		The Ghana Empire is believed to have started as a small agro-pastoralist settlement in a region known as Awkar, established around the middle of the fourth century.
		The empire's capital was built at Kumbi Saleh on the edge of the Sahara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghana_Empire (1352 words)

	Ghana Life
		Ghana is the first fl African colony to gain independence and until independence from the British colonial rule on March 6, 1957, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast.
		Ghana's population was estimated to be 17,080,000 in 1994.
		Ghana's independent commercial radio are coming to their own after the government's Frequency Registration and Control Board granted the first FM license to a small college radio station.
	www.library.yale.edu /~fboateng/fbhp.htm (2201 words)

	World InfoZone - Ghana Facts
		The name of Ghana is derived from the title of the ruler of medieval "Ghana" - the Empire of Wagadugu.
		Ghana was a centre of trade for gold, ivory and slaves.
		Ghana achieved independence in 1957 and became a republic in 1960.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Ghana (307 words)

	Ashanti.com.au - Ghana
		Ghana is a tropical country south of the Sahara Desert in West Africa, with a short 539km long coastline on the South Atlantic Ocean.
		Ghana's economy is based primarily on agriculture (cocoa, domestic food crops, forestry, and fishing), which accounted for 40-45% of GDP in the period 1991 to 1995, but has now declined to some 20%.
		Ghana has now sold more than 180 of its state-owned enterprises to private investors and, since the passing of the Investment Act in 1994, has recorded 250 new foreign investments, 70% of which are joint ventures involving Ghanaians.
	www.ashanti.com.au /pb/wp_c168f63a.html (3443 words)

	Alabama in Ghana
		Ghana, is a west African country, bounded on the north by Burkina Faso, on the east by Togo, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Côte d'Ivoire.
		Primary and secondary education is free and compulsory in Ghana between the ages of 6 and 14.
		Higher education is provided by the University of Ghana (1948), in Legon (near Accra); the University of Science and Technology (1951), in Kumasi; the University of Cape Coast (1962); and the University for Development Studies (1992), in Tamale.
	bama.ua.edu /~ghana-al/Info.htm (744 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Road to Timbuktu - Wonders
		By the time Arab geographers began to write of West Africa in the 8th century A.D., the Empire of Ghana -- described as a "land of gold" -- was already in existence.
		If this is anything more than an exercise in symmetry, then we may expect the origins of the Empire of Ghana to extend back to the first few centuries A.D. Certainly there is good archaeological evidence for the existence of large towns within, and north of, the Inland Niger Delta by ca.
		In these writings, Ghana is depicted as a great military power which could put "200,000 warriors in the field, more than 40,000 being armed with bow and arrow." The king, it was said, controlled the flow of gold from the south, and the traffic of salt from the north.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi5/5_wondr4.htm (419 words)

	Ghana - A Look at the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		hana takes its name from the ancient Ghana Empire that controlled the gold and mining trade from the 4th to the 10th century A.D. The Ghana Empire was succeeded by the Kingdom of Mali which by the 13th century A.D. had settled in the region.
		Ghana was the first nation to gain its independence in Sub-Saharan Africa in 1957.
		Nkrumah declared, "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of Africa." He wanted his country to lead all African nations against colonialism.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/ghana/alook.html (321 words)

	Peter Kuntu-Mensah
		The land tenure system in Ghana is basically a dual one; a communal system that dates as far back as the days of the old Ghana empire lives side by side to a comparably recent title registration system.
		Ghana is a small country in the West Africa below the Sahara desert, lying between latitudes 4 and 11 degrees.
		The people of Ghana established a state-making machinery, that was capable of addressing land ownership, transfer and security issues until the arrival of the Europeans in the 19th century.
	www.spatial.maine.edu /~onsrud/Landtenure/CountryReport/Ghana.html (2889 words)

	Royalty.nu - Royalty in Africa - The History and Chiefs of Ghana
		The ancient empire of Ghana was located in the western Sudan, at least 500 miles from modern Ghana.
		Modern-day Ghana is comprised of Britain's Gold Coast colony and the British part of Togoland, a German protectorate that eventually fell under the control of Britain and France.
		Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951-1960 by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola.
	www.royalty.nu /Africa/Ghana.html (1049 words)

	Elias Akafo's Empire \| ''......, it shall be well...''(Isaiah 3:10)
		Ivor Wilks, a leading historian of Ghana, observed that Akan purchases of slaves from Portuguese traders operating from the Congo region augmented the labor needed for the state formation that was characteristic of this period.
		Strictly speaking, Ghana was the title of the King, but the Arabs, who left records of the Kingdom, applied the term to the King, the capital, and the state.
		Although none of the states of the western Sudan controlled territories in the area that is modern Ghana, several small Kingdoms that later developed in the north of the country were ruled by nobles believed to have emigrated from that region.
	www.freewebs.com /kodzoakafo/tourdughana.htm (9003 words)

	Kingdom of Ghana
		The earliest of the west African states to develop was Ghana.
		Ghana was to the north of the Upper Niger river on the trade routes that carried salt and gold across the Sahara to the Mediterranean Sea.
		It was first mentioned in 833 AD by the Arab historian Kwarizmi, and described in great detail about two hundred years later when the Almoravids of North Africa captured Aoudaghast, a minor city of Ghana.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002739/AfricaSite/LMwestghana.htm (184 words)

	The History of Ghana
		Medieval Ghana (4th - 13th Century) The Republic of Ghana is named after the medieval Ghana Empire of West Africa.
		Ghana was the title of the kings who ruled the kingdom.
		(Mali Empire reached its peak of success under Mansa Musa around 1307.) Geographically, the old Ghana is 500 miles north of the present Ghana, and occupied the area between Rivers Senegal and Niger.
	www.angelfire.com /il/sawubona/GHANAHIS.html (1319 words)

	Kingdom Of Mali
		Mali Empire, empire in West Africa that rose to dominance in the 13th and 14th centuries.
		The Mali Empire was the second and most extensive of the three great successive empires, which included the Kingdom of Ghana and Songhai.
		The Mali Empire served as a model of statecraft for later kingdoms long after its decline in the 15th and 16th centuries.
	www.geocities.com /ps5kingdoms/Mali (1021 words)

	About Us The New Jolof Empire
		Ghana Empire laid out the historical, cultural and imperial foundations under which successive monarchies evolved, ever expanding in territory, population and material wealth.
		As the largest Empire in pre-colonial Africa, the emperial territory of Songhay extended from the Lake Chad in the East, to the Atlantic Ocean in the West; from the Mediterranean Sea in the North, to the Golf of Guinea in the South.
		The Emperor of Jolof Empire was deposed and replaced by a French governor; the vassal kings removed and replaced by "chiefs" and thieves.
	www.jolofempire.com /about.html (4350 words)

	History of Nsaba, Ghana Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Several groups in modern Ghana are believed to have migrated from the southern parts of the Ancient Ghana Empire (Debrunner, 1967).
		The town is considered to be one of the five main Presbyterian Church towns in Ghana and is the headquarters of the Central Region Presbyterian Church.
		At Nsaba and other places in Ghana, Christian missionaries invoked the Asafo institutional concept to establish the “Kristo Asafo” or “Elders of the Church of Christ” and “Kristo Asafomma” or “the Army of Christ’s Followers” as a rallying point for conversion and spread of Christianity in Ghana similarly to the concept of the Salvation Army.
	www.expage.com /nsabahistory2 (739 words)

	GHANA, ancient empire, Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		), ancient empire, W Africa, in the savanna region of what is now E Senegal, SW Mali, and S Mauritania.
		Internal divisions and an Almoravid invasion (1076) contributed to Ghana’s decline, and by the 13th cent.
		Modern Ghana takes its name from the former empire.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/gh/Ghana-anc.html (81 words)

	Royalty.nu - History of the African Empires of Mali and Songhai
		The empire was founded by the sultan Sundiata in the 13th century.
		Scribe, Griot, and Novelist: Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire by Thomas A. Hale.
		The Bamana Empire by the Niger: Kingdom, Jihad and Colonization 1712-1920 by Sundiata A. Djata.
	www.royalty.nu /Africa/Mali.html (1039 words)

	ADDO - Bodybuilding & Fitness - Ghana
		Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) takes its name from the ancient Ghana Empire and was the first country in colonial Africa to attain independence in 1957.
		high profile area of Ghana is the Ashanti Region, the seat of the Ashanti kingdom and an ancient African culture as famous as the Zulu of South Africa and the Maasai of Kenya.
		Today Kumasi is Ghana’s second largest city, with a population nearing 1.5 million — located in the south-central part of the country.
	www.ashantiwarrior.com /ghana.html (643 words)

	Civilizations in Africa: Ghana
		Although the state was originally formed by Berbers, it was built on the southern edge of Berber populations.
		The kingship was matrilineal (as was all Sahelian monarchies to follow); the king's sister provided the heir to the throne.
		Nonetheless, Ghana ceases to be a commercial or military power after 1100; for a brief time (1180-1230), the Soso people, who were rabidly anti-Muslim, controlled a kingdom making up the southern portions of the Ghanaian empire, but the Almoravid revolution effectively halted the growth of kingdoms and empires in the Sahel for almost a century.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM (715 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Ghana Empire
		Not to be confused with the modern Republic of Ghana, the former Gold Coast.
		The medieval Empire of Ghana was located on the banks of the upper Niger river in modern Mali.
		Ghana disintegrated, and in 1240 it was conquered by SUNDIATA, King of Mali.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/westafrica/ghana.html (140 words)

	Travel in Accra Ghana History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Much of the attraction of Ghana is based upon its legacy a center of gold, and ivory.
		The European presence in Ghana is also marked by the multitude of colonial forts that dot its coastline--strongholds that anchored the European trade in gold, ivory, and slaves.
		Although Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast, was largely considered a British territory, it wasn't until 1900 that the British succeeded in defeating the Ashanti and the area's other strong kingdoms.
	www.africatravelling.net /ghana/accra/accra_history.htm (810 words)

	Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire
		The shaded portion indicates the greatest extent of the Songhai empire, ca.
		It was from one of Mali's former conquests, the kingdom of Gao, that the last major empire of the western Sudan emerged.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/sghi/hd_sghi.htm (238 words)

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		Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires -- Ghana, Mali, and Songhai -- that occupied the West African savanna.
		The Ghana Empire, dominated by the Soninke people and centered in the area along the border of the modern states of Mali and Mauritania, was a powerful trading state from about 700 to 1075.” Have students completely fill-in a map of all the countries of Africa today.
		Also, students are to articulate what Ghana refers to and what the actual name of the region is. Evaluation: On a blank map, students are to illustrate the Ghanaian empire and express what is known of its beginning on the back of the map.
	instech.tusd.k12.az.us /aa/edresource/lesson4_1.doc (719 words)

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