Ghana’s quest to quench its thirst Alhassan Adam 2011-06-07, Issue 533 Access to water in Ghana has always been one of the most contested issues in the history of the country and this was so even before the country gained independence from Britain. In the 1930s, the introduction of water rates in Accra by the [...]
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The National (UAE) | Dec 20, 2010 Gavin du Venage Ghana and Qatar’s announcement that they will jointly farm 50,000 hectares of land is the latest in a sweeping, but controversial, trend rolling across Africa. Cash-rich countries are securing land in poorer states, which they hope will provide them with food security. African countries need [...] Last Updated- Oct 26, 2009 12:46 Blacksmith Sarpong, 35, operates a small shop in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi. He is trained to produce cooking utensils, but prefers to make guns as he can earn more money that way. When sales are good his shop brings in US$1,000 a week, he said. Foreigners paying better [...] Each year some Caribbean countries commemorate Emancipation Day – the day chattel slavery was formally abolished in Britain and it’s colonies. This excerpt is taken from the rare video, The Great Home Coming”. It documents the first Emancipation Day commemoration on the African continent, which took place in July – August 1998 in Ghana, West [...] Gold Mining as Subsistence: Ghana’s Small-Scale Miners Left Behind Quarterly – Cultural Survival – 07/08/2008 – 13:42 Touted as having as much as 70 percent of West Africa’s gold deposits, Ghana has, for centuries, attracted numerous foreigners seeking to trade and invest in its mineral riches. About one-sixth of the country contains extractable gold, and [...] President Obama in Ghana at the Cape Coast Dungeons pt 2-2 – More related videos from Asterpix Anderson Cooper of CNN AC 360 talks about African Americans returning home to Ghana. He interviews Seestah IMAHKUS owner of One Africa Guest House (www.oneafricaghana.com) a few miles from Cape Coast & Elmina Dungeons. Embedded video from CNN Video Embedded video from CNN Video PART 2 Embedded video from CNN Video READ SPEECH TRANSCRIPT |
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