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Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, covering an area of with an estimated urban population of 2.27 million.
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Afterlife
Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.
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Alfred Kotey
Alfred Kotey (born 3 June 1968) is a Ghanaian boxer.
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Aného
Aného is a town in southeastern Togo.
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Asafo
Asafo are traditional warrior groups in Akan culture.
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Asafotu
Asafotu Festival Asafotu Festival is celebrated by the Ga-Adangbe people of Ghana and Togo.
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Ataa Oko
Ataa Oko and his third wife, with a coffin in the form of a battleship, about 1960 Ataa Oko (c. 1919 - 9 December 2012) was a Ghanaian builder of figurative palanquins and fantasy coffin and at over 80 years of age he became a painter of Art Brut.
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Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer.
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Azumah Nelson
Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer.
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Batik
Batik (Javanese: ꦧꦠꦶꦏ꧀) is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique originated from Indonesia.
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Ben Tackie
Benjamin "Ben" Tackie (born 23 July 1973) is a Ghanaian professional boxer and world title challenger.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Bukom
Bukom Square is a place, associated with the "ga" people, located in Ghana, in the heart of Accra, the capital.
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Burial
Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Coffin
A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.
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Dangme language
The Dangme language, also Dangme or Adaŋgbi, is a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by the Dangme People (Dangmeli).
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Daniel Francis Annan
Justice Daniel Francis Kweipe Annan (November 7, 1928 – July 16, 2006) was a Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana.
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Daniel Mensah
Daniel Mensah, also known as Hello, is a Ga carpenter and fantasy coffin artist.
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David Anumle Hansen
Rear Admiral David Anumle Hansen (17 May 1923 – 28 January 2008) was the first Ghanaian to be appointed Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy.
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David Kotei
David Kotey (originating from the Kotei family) born on 7 December 1950 in Accra, Ghana, was a world featherweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1976 and was also the first Ghanaian professional boxer to win a world title.
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Dipo
Dipo is a Ghanaian traditional festival celebrated by the people of Odumase in the Eastern region of Ghana.
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E. N. P. Sowah
Justice E. N. P. Sowah was the Chief Justice of Ghana from 1986 to 1990.
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E. T. Mensah
Emmanuel Tettey Mensah, best known as E. T. Mensah (31 May 1919 – 19 July 1996), was a Ghanaian musician who was regarded as the "King of Highlife" music.
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Eastern Region (Ghana)
The Eastern Region is located in south Ghana and is one of ten administrative regions.
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Eric Adjetey Anang
Eric Adjetey Anang (born 1985) is a Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter.
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Ethnic group
An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
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Ethnolinguistics
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is a field of linguistics that studies the relationship between language and culture and how different ethnic groups perceive the world.
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Fantasy coffin
The fantasy or figurative coffins from Ghana, in Europe also called custom, fantastic, or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai), are functional coffins made by specialized carpenters in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana.
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Funeral
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the burial, cremation, or interment of a corpse, or the burial (or equivalent) with the attendant observances.
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Ga language
Ga is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, in and around the capital Accra.
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Ga-Mashie
Ga-Mashie is the home of the original Ga settlers.
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Ga–Dangme languages
Ga–Dangme is a branch of the Kwa language family.
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Gã Mantse
Gã Mantse is the title of the traditional king of the Gã State in southern Ghana, where the Ga-Adangbe people dwell.
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George Ayittey
George Ayittey (born 1945) is a Ghanaian economist, author and president of the Free Africa Foundation in Washington DC.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Greater Accra Region
The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 10 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres or 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana.
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Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
Harry Leslie Aikines-Aryeetey (born 29 August 1988) is an English sprinter.
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Hinduism in Ghana
Hinduism in Ghana was first introduced by Sindhi settlers who migrated to Ghana after India was divided in 1947.
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Homowo
Homowo is a festival celebrated by the Ga people of Ghana.
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Ike Quartey
Isufu "Ike" Quartey (born 27 November 1969) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra
Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts in the city of Accra, Ghana and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.
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Joseph Arthur Ankrah
Lieutenant General Joseph Arthur Ankrah (18 August 1915 – 25 November 1992) served as the first commander of the Army of Ghana, the Ghanaian Chief of the Defence Staff and from 1966 and 1969 as the 2nd President of Ghana.
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Joshua Clottey
Joshua Clottey (born October 6, 1977) is a Ghanaian professional boxer who held the IBF welterweight title from 2008 to 2009.
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Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
The Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop is a studio established in Teshie, Ghana, since the 1950s.
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Kpanlogo
Kpanlogo is a recreational dance and music form originating from the 1960s among urban youth in Accra, Ghana.
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Krobo people
The Krobo people are an ethnic group in Ghana.
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Kudjoe Affutu
Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist and figurative coffin and palanquin builder.
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Kwa languages
The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo.
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Labadi Beach
Labadi Beach or more properly known as La Pleasure Beach is the busiest beach on Ghana's coast.
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Libation
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid (ex: milk or other fluids such as corn flour mixed with water), or grains such as rice, as an offering to a god or spirit, or in memory of those who have "passed on".
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List of rulers of Gã (Nkran)
This is a list of Gã Mantse, rulers of the Gã State in southern Ghana.
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Marcel Desailly
Marcel Desailly (born Odenke Abbey, 7 September 1968) is a retired French footballer, who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder and was a member of the France international squads that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
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Mustapha Tettey Addy
Mustapha Tettey Addy (born 1942 in Avenor, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian master drummer and ethnomusicologist.
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Neville Alexander Odartey-Wellington
Major General Neville Alexander Odartey-Wellington (1934–1979), former Chief of Army Staff, Ghana Armed Forces (1978–79), was a Ghana Army officer.
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Nii Amaa Ollennu
Raphael Nii Amaa Ollennu (21 May 1906 – 22 December 1986) was a jurist and judge who was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and became the acting President of Ghana during the Second Republic from 7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970 and the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 1969 to 1972.
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Nii Amugi II
Nii Amugi II is the official title of Simon Nii Yarboi Yartey (8 June 1940 — 10 December 2004, Ghana.wordpress.com, Retrieved 20-Feb-2007), who was the Ga Mantse in Ga for 39 years.
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Nii Tackie Tawiah III
Nii Tackie Tawiah III (October 6, 1940December 2012) was the Ga Mantse in the Ga State, a traditional kingship in the Greater Accra Region in Ghana from 2006 until his death in 2012.
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Nungua
Nungua is a town in Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District in the Greater Accra Region of southeastern Ghana near the coast.
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Obo Addy
Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.
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Osu, Accra
Located about east of the central business district, Osu is a neighborhood in central Accra, Ghana, known for its busy commercial, restaurant and nightlife activity.
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Paa Joe
Paa Joe (with family name Joseph Ashong) is a Ghanaian figurative palanquin and fantasy coffin artist born 1947 in the region Akwapim belonging to the Ga-Adangbe people, Greater Accra Region in Ghana.
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Paul Sackey
Paul Henry Sackey (born 8 November 1979) is a retired English rugby union footballer who played on the wing, most recently for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership.
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Procession
A procession (French procession via Middle English, derived from Latin, processio, from procedere, to go forth, advance, proceed) is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner.
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Regula Tschumi
Regula Tschumi is a Swiss social anthropologist and art historian.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
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Tabom people
The Tabom People or Agudas are the Afro-Brazilian community in South of Ghana who are mostly of Yoruba descent.
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Taxicab
A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
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Tema
Tema is a city on the Bight of Benin and Atlantic coast of Ghana.
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Teshie
Teshie is a coastal town in the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of southeastern Ghana.
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Theresa Amerley Tagoe
Theresa Amereley Tagoe (December 13, 1943 – November 25, 2010) was a Ghanaian female politician and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party and a former Member of Parliament of the Ablekuma South Constituency.
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Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic (République Togolaise), is a sovereign state in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.
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Totem
A totem (Ojibwe doodem) is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.
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Traditional African religions
The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.
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Trait theory
In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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Volta Region
(or Volta), is one of Ghana's ten administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Yacub Addy
Yacub Addy (born 1931) was a Ghanaian traditional drummer, composer and choreographer who collaborated with Wynton Marsalis.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-Adangbe_people
