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We visited a Dagarti village on the way to Mole National Park. The village was small and very primitive by western standards. There was no electricity, nor a well in the village, and the women would walk two miles or more to fecth water, carrying it back in a large container on their head.
The huts are built around a small courtyard, with the village chief having his own hut and each of his wives (he may have up to four wives) a hut each with their young children. There is no kitchen as such in their houses – during the dry season they would cook outside, when it rains they would take the fire inside. There is no chimney in the hut, so the smoke would linger inside. Leave a Comment
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Gonja is the name of a Kingdom in Northern Ghana, but the name is also used to describe the people of this kingdom. The Gonja kingdom was established in 1675, ruled by the Ngbanya dybasty. The kingdom is also known as Ghanjawiyyu. The Gonja language is spoken by approximately 230,000 and is part of the Kwa group of languages.
Traditionally, the Gonja society is divided into a caste system, with a ruling class, a Muslim trader class, the animist commoner class and the slave class. In the old days, the main economy was the export of slaves and cola nuts. Leave a Comment
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The Dagomba people, although they live in close proximity to the Gonja people, sometimes in the same village, they speak a totally different language: the Dagbani language, which belongs to the More-Dagbani sub-group of Gur languages. The main group of Dagomba people live in Burkina Faso, with subgroups such as this group of about 650,000 Dagbamba in Ghana, who live in an area of around 8,000 square miles.
The Dagbamba culture is a very sophisticated oral culture alhtough lacking in written culture), which centres around the drum and other musical instruments. Their culture is heavily influenced by Islam. Leave a Comment
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 Swinging bridge by seratonin
It is in an area of rain forest. The main attraction of the park are for sure the swinging bridges up to 40 meters above ground. Ther you can explore the animals living in the higher parts of the immense trees.
On ground, you will see, of corse, a lot of different plants. It seems like it si not very often that you are able to see bigger animals during the day. For this you should come in the early morning or late evening. Leave a Comment
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 Accra main train station by seratonin
For tourists, it is more or less a easy-going place, as transport seems to be not a big problem, and some places are quite touristy. I've met there more backpackers than in other west african countries.
The people are very friendly and relaxed. This causes a good atmosphere in the villages and even in the big cities like Accra
The peaceful atmosphere everywhere in the country Leave a Comment
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 Lots of cedis to pay a simple
lunch with by Pieter11
In Ghana, you hardly use coins to pay with, simply because they are hardly worth anything. The bills that you will are 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 and 20.000 Cedis. A quick calculation tells that the highest banknote is only worth 2 Dollars, so when you want to pay something quite expensive, you will need a whole lot of banknote. For example, an average lunch will cost you about 35.000 Cedis, a busticket from Accra to Tamale costs 120.000 Cedis, but when you want to buy a planeticket, it will cost you at least 5 minutes to count the 1.200.000 Cedis you need to pay for that!
Most of the banknotes are very dirty and smelly, especially the 1.000, 2.000 and 5.000, because they are used to most and are the oldest. Besides the banknote there are coins of 500, 200, 100 and even 50 Cedis, of which the last one is worth $ 0,005!!! Leave a Comment
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In ancient times Ghana was called, Gold Coast and in Obuasi you see why.
Large mining elevators, gold dealers, statues and so on.
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One good thing about Ghana is the fact that English is widely spoken. Not by everyone, but wherever you come, there will always be someone around who speaks English. BUT: there is a big different in pronounciation between "normal" English and Ghanaian/African English. And it can take a while before you are completely used to it. A few examples of typical things for this Ghanaian accent:
- You will never hear the word "ask" in Ghana. Everybody in the country uses "AKS" instead. With a Brittish "a", not the American version.
- All other words with "sk" are wrongly pronounced too: "deks" instead of "desk", "moks" instead of "mosque" and "taks" instead of "task".
- All word ending on "er" in Ghana end on "a". "Water" becomes "wotta" and "Peter" becomes "Peetta".
- "Three" is pronounced as "tri" by everybody, and "thousand" as "tousand".
- Small, little, few, and everything indicating something like it, is called "small small" in Ghana. "I talk English small small..."
- Other words that are funnily pronounced are "flim" instead of "film" or "tessi" instead of "taxi". Leave a Comment
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