Ghana and Ghanaians

[windie]

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The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa which borders Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King"[4] and derives from the Ghana Empire.

Ghana was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient predominantly Akan Kingdoms, including the Akwamu on the eastern coast, the inland Ashanti Empire and various Fante and, also non Akan states like the Ga and Ewe along the coast and inland. Trade with European states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and the British established a Crown colony, Gold Coast, in 1874.

The Gold Coast achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African nation in West Africa to do soand the name Ghana was chosen for the new nation to reflect the ancient Empire of Ghana, which once extended throughout much of west Africa. Ghana is a member of many international organizations including the Commonwealth of Nations, the Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and the United Nations. Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa in the world and is also home to Lake Volta, the largest artificial lake in the world[9]. Ghana is also very well known in the football world. On October 16, 2009, it became the first African nation to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup by defeating Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shootout.






President John Atta Mills
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Ashanti
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Frafra
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Stephen Appiah
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Ozwald Boateng
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Clare Hope Ashitey
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Nyanyo Addo
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1/2 Ghanaians

Majid Michel
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Majid was born in Cantonments, Accra, Ghana, the son a Lebanese father and a Ghanaian mother. Along with his other nine siblings, Majid grew up in Accra, Ghana. He attended St. Theresa’s Primary School, and later, the elite Mfantsipim School, the alma mater of Van Vicker and also of former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. In secondary school, Majid was actively involved in theater and was a member of the school’s Drama Club. As a member of the drama club, Majid received a Best Actor Award in one of their performances on Emancipation Day in Cape Coast, Ghana.


Van Vicker
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Rhian Benson
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David Odonko
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[windie]

Michael Essien
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[Magneto]

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^^very common jaw shape for Ghanaian males

[windie]

Junior Agogo
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Mario Balotelli
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Mario Barwuah Balotelli[1] (born 12 August 1990) is an Italian-born Ghanaian footballer who plays for Serie A club Internazionale.
Balotelli was born to Ghanaian immigrants Thomas and Rose Barwuah in the Italian city of Palermo. The family moved to Bagnolo Mella in the province of Brescia, Lombardy shortly after Balotelli was born. In 1993, at the age of three, the Barwuah family agreed to entrust Mario to the Balotelli family, with the legal move successively formalized by the Court of Brescia.[6] Balotelli later accused his biological parents of "glory hunting", stating that they only wanted him back when he became famous.[7] They lived in Concesio, a town and comune in Brescia. According to Law 91 of 5 February 1992,[8] Balotelli had to wait until his 18th birthday in order to request Italian citizenship, as his adoption was never made definitive, which he officially gained on 13 August 2008.



Pearl Amoah
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[Zupan]

I don't know why, but I get the vibe of Africa.. :o

[windie]

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1/2 Ghanaians
Paul Boateng
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Paul Yaw Boateng (born 14 June 1951) is a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to April 2009.

Boateng was born in Hackney, London of mixed Ghanaian and Scottish heritage. He lived in Ghana, where his father, Kwaku Boateng, was a cabinet minister under Kwame Nkrumah, until the 1966 coup that ousted Nkrumah.



Boris Kodjoe
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Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe[1] (born 8 March 1973) is an Austrian-American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as courier-turned-sports agent Damon Carter on the Showtime television drama series Soul Food.

Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ursula, a German psychologist, and Eric Kodjoe, a Ghanaian physician.[1] His namesake is Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer Boris Pasternak.[2] He was born Jewish through his mother and maternal grandmother,[3] though Kodjoe and his wife are members of Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.



Jennifer Victoria Koranteng
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[ayepod]

Quite a handsome people. A look I associate with Ghanaians is a short mid-face with a wide bulging forehead.

[Zupan]

Ghananians area bunch of good people :) All ghananians I know are totally ok :) And they don't look whether your a muslim or christian. :)

[windie]

Kofi Annan
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Kofi Atta Annan, Honorary GCMG (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.

Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana – in what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast. He is a twin, a respected status in Ghanaian culture. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name 'Atta', which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'.

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[Grasshoppa]

Imo, Ghanaians have a look that I associate more-so with West Africans. I've got my eye on a Ghanaian girl at work. Hopefully she is not one of the types that look down on Afro-Americans.

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1/2 Ghanaians


Jerry Rawlings
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Jerry John Rawlings (born Jeremiah Rawlings John 22 June 1947 in Accra, Gold Coast) is a former military ruler who ruled Ghana for a total of nearly 19 years. In the 1990s he began a process of political liberalization. He was twice the head of state of Ghana and was the 1st President of the Fourth Republic.

Rawlings was born to the Scottish ship worker James Ramsay John and his Ghanaian Ewe mistress, Victoria Agbotui. His father had migrated to the then Gold Coast in 1935 with his wife Mary to work for the United Africa Company (UAC). In 1941 he started an affair with Madam Agbotui, then a caterer at the State House in Ghana. The relationship ended in 1947, the same year that Rawlings was born. James John refused to acknowledge Rawlings as his son, however before his death he left a message of apology- to his- with his Scottish family.
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Jaye Davidson
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1/2 British mother 1/2 Ghanaian father
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1/2 German father 1/2 Ghanaian mother twins ''black and white twins''
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Richard Adjei
1/2 German father 1/2Ghanaian mother
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Congratulations Richard Adjei: Silver Medalist with the German Bobsled Team

The Black Olympics have another Winter Olympic Medalist – Richard Adjei of Germany. Richard Adjei was the pusher for the two-man bobsled team that won a silver medal on February 21. Adjei and driver Thomas Florschuetz finished second by 22 hundreths of a second. Adjei is of German and Ghanaian descent and played American football as a linebacker for the Berlin Thunder in the NFL Europe. He will also compete in the four-man bobsled on February 26 and 27. Check out more pictures of him here (this is especially for the ladies).

The Vancouver Sun did a great article on how he feels to represent Germany as a mixed race man. He says that he hopes his presence at the Olympic Games will change people’s perception of Germany.

The Germans are known for their technical expertise in sliding sports—luge, bobsled, and skeleton. The German driver of the gold medal team, Andre Lange, won his fourth gold medal since 2002 and will go for a fifth gold medal in the four-man bobsled.
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David Mensah
1/2 British mother 1/2 ghanaian father
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