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Ghana's Geography in Ghana's Famous Diana Monkey

Being a monkey in living in Ghana rocks, especially when you are Ghana's famous, beautiful Diana monkey. Ghana is quite nice actually. The dense forests and rainy rain forests are the perfect environment for us. We live in the canopy of the rain forest, where its sunny, but you still have tree's to live in. Once in a while we come down to towns or cities to see what there is to eat.

Monkeys are very popular in Ghana. They are very common to see in towns, and other places then our natural habitat. We see what we can find in town's for food, but one type of tree never fails to provide us with food in the rain forest, the fig tree. we love figs! Fig trees are so big! Many other types of monkeys share this tree, and sometime it requires for us Diana monkeys to become a bit of a bully. We have to do what we have to do for food.

The forests near lake Volta are my favorite! They are rich with food and water. There is this one place where a hug fig tree hangs over the water, and there are always figs, bugs, and water to eat or drink. Lake Volta is a very large lake, but not all of it is surrounded with trees. The water is nice, clear, and suitale for drinking. I love living in Ghana where there are always monkeys, food, water and entertainment.

Ghana's Great News

Ghana's election polls just recently closed. It was the election for the new president of Ghana. This election was between John Atta Mills and Nana Akufo-Addo. They both campaigned all throughout Ghana. John Atta Mills reigns from the Democratic Party. Both men kind of centered their campaign about violence, because violence is a big problem in Ghana. We don’t know who won the election yet though.

Recently, the director of Ghana has issued to not build bars near schools. He says, “Their activities are incompatible to peaceful conditions needed for teaching and learning.” He wants to keep kids focus on school and their education without being distracted by drunks, or people selling alcohol.

The Black Stars of Ghana have just recently found out their ranking in the next fifa world cup coming up next year in South Africa. They are ranked 31st in the world, which is pretty good for the fifa soccer world cup which comes every 4 years. They are ranked 3rd in all of Africa which is also really good. The qualifiers for the world cup have been going on since last year, and they are still going on. In 2010 we will see Ghana in the world cup, and I will be rooting for them.

Ghana and Nigeria must work together and cooperate to develop as countries. “We must strengthen our relationship, economically, socially, politically and culturally and see to remove all barriers to enable us work together to enhance development and reduce poverty among our people,” says Mr. Muhammed Musiliu Obanikoro, High Commissioner of Nigeria to Ghana. He also says that Ghana and Nigeria working together could help all of West Africa and the sub-region. We will see how things will turn out.

Ghana's Sweet Culture and Nifty Customs

Ghana has six main ethnic groups, the Akan (Ashanti and Fanti), the Ewe, the Ga-Adangbe, the Mole-Dagbani, the Guan, and the Gurma. From these ethnicities come the tribes of Ashanti, Ewé, Fanti, Ga-Adangbe, and Gaun. The major languages are Twi, Fante, Ga, Hausa, Dagbani, Ewe and Nzema. English is the official language of Ghana though. There are also many indigenous tribal languages. Christianity is the main religion, but there are also many Muslims, and Tribal, African religions.

Ghanaians celebrate many festivals. They celebrate rite of passage, child-birth, puberty, marriage, and death. There are many rituals and traditions that are performed at these festivals. There are thrilling durbars of chiefs, when tribal leaders and Queen Mothers process in decorated palanquins, traditional umbrellas, drummers, and warriors discharging ancient muskets.

There are two relatively large festivals that they celebrate, Panafest and The Homowo Festival. Panafest is held every summer. It is celebrates Ghana’s roots, culture, heritage, and people. Homowo is to celebrate harvest and food.

Ghana’s rich culture produces it own unique food, clothing, pastimes, and music. The most popular foods of Ghana are soups. The most common soups are light soup, palmnut soup, and groundnut (peanut) soup. Kokonte, banku, boiled yam, rice, bread, plantain, or cassava are very popular too. Ghana has its very own music. They have many genres, consisting Axatse, Gankogui, Kaganu, Kidi, Sogo, and Atsimevu. A very popular instrument in all of these types of music is the kpalogo drum. The people of Ghana use kente cloth for their clothes. For past times people enjoy soccer, cricket, wood carving, dancing, and many more.

Ghana's Awesome History

Ghana was formerly known as the gold Coast. The Portuguese cam to Ghana near the 15th century, and found a lot of gold between two rivers. They named the place Mina, meaning mine in Portuguese. While they were there they built a huge castle, ordered by their king. There aims were gold, slaves, and ivory.

The British later came to Ghana, and then Ghana was colonized. This was similar to the French adopting the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). Much later the Dutch came and joined them. They won over the castle that the Portuguese had built from the Portuguese. Other Europeans, Danes, Swedes, and English, came and joined them. The coastlines were covered by forts built by the Dutch, British, and Danes.

By the 19th century the Dutch and The British were the only Europeans left. The Dutch decided to leave in the late 1800’s, and when they left Britain made the Gold Coast a crown colony. Ghana was doing pretty well, and where exporting tons of Gold every day. There were also many slaves in Ghana.

With so much gold being exported from Ghana, the railways had to be expanded. They also started to export cocoa, only first to Britain, but then it expanded and they began to export to more countries. In 1957 Ghana inherited 200 pounds from the British, which was considered a lot of money.

From 1957 to now Ghana has gone through many political difficulties such as freedom, health care, taxes, inflation, and many more.

Ghana's Wonderful Geography

Ghana is located in Western Africa. It borders the Gulf of guinea and is between Togo and Cote d’Ivoire. Ghana’s temperature year around is hot. In different regions of Ghana the type of hot varies. In some parts it tropical and hot, other parts it’s just dry and hot, but for the most part it is hot and humid. It’s only natural hazards are dry, dusty, northeastern harmattan winds that can occur, and droughts.

The largest artificial lake, Lake Volta, is located in Africa. This artificial lake connects to three rivers, the Black Volta, the White Volta, and the Volta. There are two other rivers larger rivers in Ghana, the Tano, and the Ankobra.

Most of Ghana is low plains, but there is a plateau in the south central area, and there are the Akwapim-Togo mountain ranges in the east. They spread up through Togo and merge with the Togo Mountains. These mountains are not a very large or tall. The highest peak in this range is around 460 meters.

Because of Ghana’s tropical forests, they have a lot of bio diversity. They have many rare animals, and endangered animals. Their top 5 endangered animals are the groove-toothed forest mouse, the African elephant, the chimpanzee, the Diana monkey, and the red colobus. They also have leopards, hyenas, pythons, puff adders, and many more.