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10 unusual facts about Ashanti region


Ashanti Gold SC

Ashanti Gold Sporting Club popularly known as AshGold is a football club based in the gold mining town of Obuasi, south of Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Birimian

In Ghana, over 90 percent of output originates from underground mines in the Ashanti region of the country.

Ebrié

Their oral history relates that the tribe was originally located to the northeast, near the lands of the Ashanti in Ghana, but that they fled to the south after a great defeat in battle by a neighboring tribe.

Joseph Henry Smith

From 1993 to 1996, he was the Commander of the Second Infantry Brigade Group (now known as the Northern Command) with headquarters at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Kofi Adu

Adu was originally from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, but lived in a suburb in Accra Newtown called Asantewaa.

Kwabena Duffuor

Kwabena Duffuor had his secondary education at the Prempeh College at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Noel Birch

In 1895 to 1896 he took part in the Ashanti expedition, and in South Africa he served with the Royal Horse Artillery in the Cavalry Division under the command of Sir John French, taking part in the relief of Kimberley, the operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, and being present at the Battle of Diamond Hill.

Prince Nana

Although Nana was born in the United States, he states that he is the son of an Ashanti tribe member with royal heritage and the heir to the throne of Ashanti in Ghana.

Samuel McGaw

On 21 January 1874 at the Battle of Amoaful, Ashanti (now Ghana), Lance-Sergeant McGaw led his section through the bush in a most excellent manner and continued to do so throughout the day, although badly wounded early in the engagement.

West End Hospital, Kumasi

It is located at Patasi, opposite the Police Depot in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region.


Department of Optometry, KNUST

In March 2011, volunteers from Vision Aid Overseas visited the Department to teach its students as well as embark on Outreaches to cocoa growing areas of the Ashanti Region.

Elvis Afriyie Ankrah

His mother hailed from Atiavi, near Keta, in the Volta Region and his father was from Ahenema Kokoben, that is located in the Ashanti Region.

Mmoaninko festival

The Mmoaninko festival is celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Offinso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

Upper East Region

The N10 originates from Yemoransa in the Central Region and connects through Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and terminates at Paga in the Upper East Region.

Vehicle registration plates of Ghana

The numbering starts from 1 to 9999; in the Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions, many vehicles are registered every year therefore, supplementary plates are provided for these two regions - AW and AE are the supplementary plates for the original AS of the Ashanti Region; GT, GN, GW, GE, GY, GL GS, GC, GM and GX are also the supplementary plates for the original GR of the Greater Accra Region.