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Ghana: Northern Ghana
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Ghana is located on the Gulf of Guinea along the west coast of Africa. It borders Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The climate is tropical and varies from a warm dry coastal belt in the southeast and a hot humid southwest corner to a hot dry northern savannah. The southern part of the country, where the University of Ghana is located, has four seasons, two wet seasons (May - June and September - November) as well as two dry seasons (July - August and December - April). In the capital city of Accra, average temperatures range from 72 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit year round.
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Most ethnic groups constituting the population of Ghana (formerly the British colony of the Gold Coast) had settled in their present locations by the sixteenth century. Prior to British control in the nineteenth century political developments in the area largely revolved around the formation expansion and contraction of a number of states--a situation that often entailed much population movement. Some people ... lived in so-called segmentary societies and did not form states particularly in northern Ghana. According to tradition most present-day Ghanaians are descended not from the area's earliest inhabitants but from various migrant groups the first of which probably came down the Volta River in the early thirteenth century.
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This Web Page is devoted to two small communities in Northern Ghana. The authors: Carey and Beverely Johnston collectively spent six years in these West African towns. The featured resources cover Navrongo & Lawra's culture, language, and geography, history, music, etc.
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