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28 unusual facts about Kumasi


Alex Asamoah

Alexander Jeffrey Obiri Asamoah Gyimah (born January 16, 1986 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian footballer, who currently plays for Aduana Stars.

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.

Basty Kyeremateng

Basty Owusu Kyeremateng (born 3 February 1987 in Kumasi) is an Italian footballer who currently playing for A.C.D. Borgopal Calcio.

Charles Quansah

While in custody, Quansah was subsequently charged with the murder of another woman, Akua Serwaa who was found strangled near Kumasi Sports Stadium, in Kumasi on January 19, 1996 and subsequently confessed to the strangulation deaths of eight women in the capital city of Accra.

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.

Ebenezer Hagan

Ebenezer Benyarko Hagan (born 1 October 1975 in Kumasi) is a former Ghanaian International footballer who last played for Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. in the Ghana Premier League.

Eric Opoku

Eric Opoku-Agyemang (born November 11, 1991 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for Ghana Premier League club Asante Kotoko.

Geoffrey Barton

He was wounded during the campaign and was mentioned in dispatches for his services in the engagements at Jarbinbah and Kumasi.

Ghana Biomedical Convention

The 2011 Biomed convention was held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

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.

Herman Willem Daendels

Drawing on his experience from the East Indies, he came up with some very ambitious infrastructural projects, including a comprehensive road system, with a main road connecting Elmina and Kumasi in Ashanti.

Ibrahim Tanko

Born in Kumasi, Tanko joined German side BV Borussia Dortmund from King Faisal Babes at age 17, making him the third youngest player to appear professionally for the team, behind Nuri Şahin and Lars Ricken.

Illiasu Shilla

Illiasu was born in Tema, Ghana, and began his career in Kumasi with Real Republicans—a youth club—and then King Faisal Babes, where he played in two successive campaigns in the African Confederations Cup in 2004 and 2005.

Jacob Lekgetho

He was capped 25 times for the South African national team, making his international debut in a 1-0 win over Malta in May 2000 and playing his last match for Bafana Bafana in a 3-0 World Cup Qualifying defeat to Ghana in Kumasi on 20 June 2004.

Janet Yawson

Her personal best jump was 6.35 metres, achieved in May 1979 in Kumasi.

John Plumptre Carr Glyn

He was also present at the capture of the capital, Kumasi, which had been abandoned by the Ashanti.

Kwabena Duffuor

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

Mark Rutland

In Kumasi, he worked a great deal with a man named Brew Riverson, the President of the small Methodist training college in the city Wesley College and whom he had become acquainted with several years before at a rally he had held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rutland's mission to Ghana in 1979 consisted of a 28-day crusade in which he preached in many places and churches throughout the country, including the cities of Accra and Kumasi.

Opoku Nti

Samuel Opoku Nti (born January 23, 1961 in Kumasi) is a former Ghanaian football forward.

Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary

Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary, located in Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa.

Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary, Kumasi can also be suitable for arranging picnics and bird watching.

Rumble strip

In Ghana, rumble strips running across the entire carriageway were installed at Suhum Junction on the main Accra-Kumasi highway and reduced crashes by about 35% and fatalities by about 55%.

Samad Oppong

Samad Wayne Abdul Oppong (born August 16, 1988 in Kumasi) is a Ghanaian footballer.

Samuel Kuffour

Born in Kumasi, Kuffour was brought to Europe by Torino F.C. in 1991 aged just 15, after playing junior football for local teams in his native country.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

Thomas Reichstein

From 1992 until 1997 he went to Ghana for three months every year to a brass casting village near Kumasi.

Tonaton.com

Ads for second hand cars account for nearly 17% of all ads posted, with users from Accra, Kumasi and Sekondi-Takoradi contributing the majority of ads.


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Adae Kese Festival

The festival was a time to consecrate the remains of the dead kings; those remains had been kept in a mausoleum at the sacred burial ground of Bantama, a royal suburb of Kumasi.

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.

Bice Osei Kuffour

He was educated at the State Experimental School (Kumasi), the Soul Clinic School (Accra), Garrisson Junior Secondary School (Burma Camp) and Mfantsipim School.

Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng

Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng (born 1977 in Kumasi, Ghana) is the first African to be hired on the African version of The Apprentice, a television reality show hosted by Biodun Shobanjo called The Apprentice Africa.

James Loembe

On 5 November 2008, he featured for Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a trial match against King Faisal Babes in Memory of the late Honour Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu at the Baba Yara Stadium which Kotoko lost by a lone goal to a King Faisal side that had the entire 1st team squad except Goalkeeper Osei Boateng and Ebo 'Nani' Andoh of Black Starlets fame.

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.

Kotoka International Airport

The airport company was registered in January 2006 and commenced trading on 1 January 2007 tasked with the responsibility for planning, developing, managing and maintaining all airports and aerodromes in Ghana namely Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and the regional airports at Kumasi, Tamale, Sunyani as well as airstrips.

Samuel Appiah

Appiah attended the Ashgold Academy and Adisadel College (the equivalent of high school in Ghana), and spent four years with the Ajax Football Academy in Kumasi, Ghana between the ages of 13 and 17, before attending and playing soccer at the University of Ghana from 2005 to 2006.

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.

West End Hospital, Kumasi

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