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unusual facts about Ghanaian



1967 African Cup of Champions Clubs

The decider was set for December 27, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, but Asante Kotoko did not show up (apparently not having been informed of the match arrangements by the Ghanaian FA), and TP Englebert were declared champions.

Akuffo

Fred Akuffo (1937–1979), Ghanaian soldier, politician, former President of Ghana

Amoako

K. Y. Amoako (born 1944), Ghanaian economist and civil servant

Baba Adamu

Baba Adamu (born 20 October 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana), known occasionally simply by his nickname "Armando", is a former Ghanaian international football (soccer) striker.

Boadu Maxwell Acosty

Boadu Maxwell Acosty (born 10 September 1991 in Sunyani) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Chievo, on loan from Fiorentina, as a winger.

Boahen

Albert Adu Boahen (1932–2006), Ghanaian academic, historian and politician

Bossman

Peter Bossman, a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician, the first black mayor in Slovenia

Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine

The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine (CSRPM) was established in 1975 by the Government of Ghana in recognition of the pioneering work of Dr. Oku Ampofo, a Ghanaian allopathic medical practitioner.

Charles Odamtten Easmon

Charles Odamtten "Charlie" Easmon attended the prestigious Achimota School alongside future Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah.

Defence Council

Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Deola Sagoe

The campaign, titled “Catwalk the World: Fashion for Food.”, began in Nigeria in April 2006 and recently staged an event in Ghana which brought celebrities like Damon Dash, his wife, designer Rachel Roy, and Ghanaian-born, London-based designer Ozwald Boateng.

Dominic Oppong

Dominic Oppong (born January 21, 1986 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player, currently playing for FC Edmonton in the North American Soccer League.

Emmanuel Gyimah Labi

Emmanuel Gyimah Labi (born 27 September 1950 in Accra) is a Ghanaian composer, conductor, and music professor.

Ephraim Avea Nsoh

Ephraim Avea Nsoh is a Ghanaian politician and the Upper West Regional Minister of Ghana.

Flight lieutenant

Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian politician who twice served as his country's president

Frank Abdulai Ayariga

His third child, Hassan Ayariga was the Presidential candidate for the People's National Convention in the Ghanaian presidential election in December 2012.

Fritz Baffour

His father was R. P. Baffour, an academician and one of the first Ghanaian mechanical engineers as well as the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Ghana at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Half of its team had competed at their first Olympic games; sprinter Vida Anim, on the other hand, was the first Ghanaian female athlete to participate in her fourth Olympics.

Ghana national baseball team

In June 2008, US President George W. Bush, Ghanaian Vice President Aliu Mahama and outgoing US ambassador Pamela Bridgewater were honored for their work in developing baseball and softball in the country.

Ghanaian Arabs

In general most of Ghana south of Kumasi has a high proportion of Ghanaian Arabs, while south central and southern coast of Ghana has a high concentration of Ghanaian Arabs.

Ghost Town Prophecy

Ghost Town Prophecy is a 2007 album/EP by Canadian/Ghanaian Musician Kae Sun.

Ishmael Yartey

Yartey began his youth and professional career with Ghanaian club All Blacks F.C., before joining S.L. Benfica on a 1-year loan deal with a buy option at the end of the contract.

Jewel of Muscat

Timber for the ship was made from Afzelia africana trees felled in Ghana and cut into planks and frames at a Ghanaian lumberyard.

Joe Gyau

Gyau is of third generation pedigree of professional footballers, being the son of former U.S. international Philip Gyau and the grandson of Joseph "Nana" Gyau, a former Ghanaian international.

John Singleton

On October 12, 1996, John married Ghanaian actress Akosua Gyamama Busia, an actress and the daughter of Ghana's second Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.

Jojo Cobbinah

Jojo Cobbinah (born 25 May 1948 in Bogoso North of Tarkwa, Western Region) is a Ghanaian author living in Accra, Ghana.

Konadu

Asare Konadu (1932–1994), Ghanaian journalist, novelist and publisher

Nana Konadu (born 1964 as Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah), Ghanaian boxer of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s

Kotei Blankson

Kotei Blankson (born 23 November 1984 in Dansoman) is a Ghanaian football player who currently plays for Sekondi Wise Fighters.

Ľuboš Micheľ

He sent off one Ghanaian player for diving and ordered the Ghana coach, Ratomir Dujković, to leave the field after the coach argued with him about the offside goal.

Mampong

Gerald Asamoah, Ghanaian-German Footballer, currently playing for SpVgg Greuther Fürth (b. 1978)

Matthew Amoah

He is a member of the Ghanaian Golden Era of footballers including Fulham right back John Paintsil and Chelsea versatile midfielder Michael Essien and former captain Steven Appiah who now plays for Italian Club Cesena and formerly Fenerbahçe SK and Juventus player.

Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh

Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana.

Music of Ghana

The originator of this style is Reggie Rockstone, a Ghanaian musician who dabbled with hip-hop in the United States before finding his unique style.

The same period saw a Ghanaian community appear in Toronto and elsewhere in Canada.

Music of Ivory Coast

Even Meidway, through a series of guest musicians like Manu Dibango, Jacob Desvarieux, Lokua Kanza, Kojo Antwi and Koffi Olomidé has added Cuban, Mbalax and Ghanaian Hi-life musics.

Nkawie

Nkawie is the home town of former Ghanaian president John Kufuor.

Oppong

Dominic Oppong (born 1986), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player

P. A. K. Aboagye

Paul Alfred Kwesi Aboagye (5 January 1925 - 19 June 2001) was a Ghanaian poet, essayist, novelist, and historian of the Nzema language.

Paul Victor Obeng

Paul Victor Obeng popularly known as P. V. Obeng is a Ghanaian Mechanical Engineer, politician and chairman of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology council.

Prestea

In the years 2002 and 2003, the town's local football club Prestea Mines Stars played in the highest Ghanaian football league, the Ghana Premier League.

Rebecca Akufo-Addo

Rebecca Akufo-Addo (neé Griffiths-Randolph) is the daughter of judge and the Third Republic of Ghana speaker of Parliament, Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, and the wife of the leader of the Ghanaian New Patriotic Party and politician Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo.

Salt industry in Ghana

The Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC) has identified the sector as an important one to aid the diversification of Ghana's economy, and the Ghanaian government is currently within the process of developing the industry.

Shittu

Sulley Shittu (born 1946), Ghanaian boxer of the 1960s and '70s

That Happy Feeling

The song was composed by Ghanaian musician Guy Warren in 1956 under the original title "An African's Prayer (Eyi Wala Dong)".

Thomas Partey

Thomas Teye Partey (born 13 June 1993 in Odumase Krobo), simply Thomas, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for RCD Mallorca, on loan from Atlético Madrid, as a defensive midfielder.


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