Gold Coast Ghana: A Guide to Its History and Sites
The Gold Coast was the name for the stretch of West African coastline that is now Ghana. It was also the name of the British colony that ruled it. On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast became independent and took a new name: Ghana. The name changed, but the Gold Coast did...
Traditional Chiefs in Ghana: Chieftaincy and Paramount Chiefs
Ghana runs on two parallel systems of authority. One is the elected government in Accra, presidents, parliament, district assemblies. The other is far older, a network of chiefs and traditional rulers whose authority predates the nation itself and whose influence has...
Aburi Botanical Gardens: What to Know Before You Visit
There comes a point in life in Accra, usually somewhere around the third hour of traffic on the N1 or the fourth power cut of the week, when the city starts to feel like something you need a break from. Not permanently. Just for a day. Aburi Botanical Gardens is...
What Is Elmina Castle? A Complete History and Visitor Guide
Elmina Castle is the oldest surviving European building anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Portuguese built it in 1482 on the coast of what is now Ghana, and it still stands today, overlooking the fishing town of Elmina in the Central Region. It began as a trading...
What Type of Government Does Ghana Have? A Guide to Ghana’s Journey to Democracy
Ghana has a unitary constitutional democracy with a presidential system of government. The President is both the head of state and the head of government. The whole system rests on the 1992 Constitution, which created the Fourth Republic. Power is shared across three...
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