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INSPIRATION AFRICA!
Project 11
Alexandra Infants School
All about Ghana


Amoafi is a story-teller and musician from Ghana, West Africa, and during the project she showed some of her own pictures to the children and talked about Ghana.

The Cocoa tree

The cocoa tree has fruits all the way down so that even children can pick it...
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The Cocoa tree

The termites are white ants that build very strong mounds, like concrete ...
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Amoafi also brought in some of her own objects from home (see them by clicking on this link) and compiled the following page of information about Ghana.


  • Geographical information
  • Weather
  • Crops
  • Language
  • Twi alphabet and pronounciation

    Geographical information
    Ghana lies between Togo and the Ivory Coast in West Africa. It has a population of 20m and the capital city of Ghana is ACCRA.

    - Ghana and England lie on the Meridian Line therefore they share the same time between November and March
    - Ghana is 11 degrees north of the Equator
    - There are ten regions in Ghana: Greater Accra, Eastern, Volta, Central, Asante, Brong Ahafo, Western, Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions
    - The major river is River Volta.

    		• Learning about Ghana

    Weather
    - The average temperature is between 21 and 27 degrees C (70 to 81 degrees F). It rises to appr. 38 degrees C (100 degrees F) and drops to appr. 5 degrees C (41 degrees F) on the mountain tops.
    - There are two seasons:
    Rainy (longer: December to March; shorter: October and November)
    Dry (Longer: December to March; shorter: August and September).

    Crops
    Cocoa, groundnuts (peanuts), coffee, maize, yam, cocoyam, plaintains, sweet potatoes, garden eggs (egg plant), chilli peppers, sweet peppers, okros, bananas, cassava, millet, pineapples, avocado, mangoes, grapefruit, oranges, guava, coconut and oil palm.
    Ghanaians do all the range of jobs in Western societies but farming forms the major occupation of villagers.

    Language
    Major Language: TWI (with four dialects: Akuapem, Akyem, Kwawu & Asante). There are 45 other local languages. Official language: English


    Language

    Twi Alphabet and pronounciation
    TWI alphabet

    E in TWI alphabetO in TWI alphabetN in TWI alphabet

    DW in TWI alphabetGY in TWI alphabetHWE in TWI alphabetKW in TWI alphabetKY in TWI alphabet

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