Thursday, May 7, 2009
Creative Writing
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
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.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Ghana's Sweet Culture and Nifty Customs
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 Awesome History
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.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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.