Ghana - Ethnic groups



It is fairly certain that Ghana has been occupied by Negroid peoples since prehistoric times. Members of the Akan family, who make up some 44% of the population, include the Twi, or Ashanti, inhabiting the Ashanti Region and central Ghana, and the Fanti, inhabiting the coastal areas. In the southwest, the Nzima, Ahanta, Evalue, and other tribes speak languages related to Twi and Fanti. The Moshi-Dagomba constitute 16% of the population, the Ewe 13%, and the Ga 8%. The Accra plains are inhabited by tribes speaking variants of Ga, while east of the Volta River are the Ewe living in what used to be British-mandated Togoland. All these tribes are fairly recent arrivals in Ghana, the Akan having come between the 12th and 15th centuries, the Ga-Adangbe in the 16th century, and the Ewe in the 17th century. Most of the inhabitants of the Northern Region belong to the Mole-Dagbani group of Voltaic peoples or to the Gonja, who appear to bear some relation to the Akan. European and other groups account for only 0.2% of the population.

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RAMONDA
I need information on an African ethnic group called "GA"
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Heletsi Sylvester
I need information on an ethnic group called "Nzema"
Chamba is one of the indigenous tribe of Ghana and for that matter should be known
Kusasi is a tribe in Northern Ghana. I need to know their origin and composition.
YES THE CHAMBAS ARE INDEED ONE OF THE INDIGENOUS TRIBE IN GHANA AND AMONG THE FIRST TRIBES TO ARRIVE IN GHANA
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Wubonto Gyingyiase Mohammed
Sissala is an indigenous ethnic group and a major tribe in the Upper West Region of Ghana. May I know their history, origin and composition. Thank you.
i need the origin of PEOPLE WHO OCCUPIED THE NORTHERN ZONE OF GHANA
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salim yussif
please i really like to know which language do chamba from north speaks?
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alice
how many major ethnic groups do we have in Ghana?
how do i explain gurma as one of the major ethnic groups in Ghana?
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Ijor-nda
YES THE CHAMBAS ARE ONE OF THE MINORITY TRIBES IN GHANA.YET THEY CAN BE FOUND IN OTHER WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES LIKE NIGERIA,TOGO CAMEROON AND FAR AWAY INDIA.
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Mohammed
where is the origin of the Gonja in northern ghana?
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B. Bassoumah
why are the bimobas left out? are they not part of northerners?

reconsider for it is discriminatory
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Munir M.Adam
The article is good .It arouses interests from readers to ask questions. For example the ethnic Chamba people would ask what about the Chamba people in Ghana who see themselves as part of Dagbon and among the early Ashanti and Bring Ahafo cocoa farmers brought down from the Northern Ghana,talked about by his learned historian ,Adu Boahene in the history of 1800 and more?Are we writing history to satisfy ego or mankind?Should the Bible and Qur'an have been written to suit the haves would we have become Christians and muslims?Allah save race from ignorance.
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Danielle
please, I would like to know about the Pepesa people who reside in Dompim
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JEFFERY
Please which ethnic group was the first to come. Also, I like the article and would look forward to new ones

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