The Ghanaian military often has to make do with poorly-serviced weaponry and equipment due to lack of maintenance training and capability.

The Ghanaian Army relies on a mix of modern military technology and older varieties.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

Ghanaian statutory law officially prohibits civilians and foreign nationals from wearing military apparel such as camouflage clothing, or clothing which resembles military dress.

In addition, Ghanaian law prohibits the photographing of police or military personnel and vehicles while on duty, strategic sites such as Kotoka International Airport when in use, and the seat of the Ghanaian government, Osu Castle.

* Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ( 1931 – 1979 ), Ghanaian military ruler

* Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian politician and military leader

The southeastern region of Côte d ' Ivoire is marked by coastal inland lagoons that starts at the Ghanaian border and stretch along the eastern half of the coast.

This is a chart of trend of gross domestic product of Ghana at market prices estimated by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of Ghanaian Cedis.

However, this regulation is not enforced, and Ghanaian civilians are able to wear military-style apparel ( such as civilian clothes in a camouflage finish ) without any difficulties from law enforcement.

The Ghanaian Hausa dialect ( Gaananci ), spoken in Ghana and western Ivory Coast, is a distinct western native Hausa dialect-bloc with adequate linguistic and media resources available.

Hausa is also widely spoken by non-native Gur and Mande Ghanaian Muslims, but differs from Gaananci, and rather has features consistent with non-native Hausa dialects.

Similarly, in Africa, plantain leaves are dried and used to wrap corn dough before it is boiled to make fanti kenkey, a Ghanaian dish eaten with ground pepper, onions, tomatoes and fish.

Jerry John Rawlings, the ex-President of Ghana is the son of a Scottish people | Scottish father and a black Ghanaian mother.

Ghanaian music: Ghana is best known for the highlife style of music, which has been popular throughout the 20th century.

The word junkanoo is said to be derived from a Ghanaian leader, John Connu, or from the Qujo supreme deity ( Canno ) and ancestral spirits ( jannanin ).

The fertile, forested southern coastal region is inhabited by African Ghanaian groups speaking Kwa languages such as Akan and Ga. Their music is in the Niger-Congo tradition, associated with social or spiritual functions, and relies on complex polyrhythmic patterns played by drums and bells as well as harmonized song.

Though the concert is now mostly remembered for its role as a catalyst in the subsequent Ghanaian roots revival, it also led to increased popularity for American rock and soul.

The originator of this style is Reggie Rockstone, a Ghanaian musician who dabbled with hip-hop in the United States before finding his unique style.

The Ghanaian cedi symbol ¢ is a letter C struck through with a vertical or slightly angled bar.

However, because some fonts do not provide a cedi character, the cent sign is often used in its place, including all official Ghanaian documents.

*( d ) he / she is born in Ghana and Ghanaian at birth

The New Patriotic Party is a liberal democratic and liberal conservative party in Ghana and one of two dominant parties in Ghanaian politics.

Marcel Desailly (; born Odenke Abbey 7 September 1968 in Accra, Ghana ) is a retired Ghanaian born French footballer and star of the France national football team squad, with whom he won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.

The GAF's mission is to perform counterinsurgency operations and to provide logistical support to the Ghanaian army.

George Darko ( born 1951, Akropong ) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit " Ako ti brofo " ( Even Parrots speak English ), which was very popular in the early 1980s.

Tourism has become one of Ghana's largest foreign income earners ( ranking third in 1997 ), and the Ghanaian Government has placed great emphasis upon further tourism support and development.

Historically, modern Ghanaian territory was the core of the Empire of Ashanti, which was one of the most advanced states in sub-Sahara Africa in the 18 – 19th centuries, before colonial rule.

* Ayi Kwei Armah, Ghanaian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, considered one of Africa's most important writers

* Kwame Nkrumah, a Ghanaian politician and for a time Life President ( originally Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma ) and one of the most influential founders of Pan-Africanism

In the five-square-block area where most of the commercial establishments are located, one can choose from a variety of ethnic cuisines, among them Spanish, Ethiopian, Guatemalan, Mexican, Italian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Ghanaian, Cajun, Brazilian, Palestinian, Peruvian, Indian, Israeli, Thai, Lebanese, Eritrean, and Chinese.

Of these, only one is still used today, Fort Christiansborg, which is the Ghanaian president's residence in Ghana.

He is one of the current national record holders in 4 x 100 m relay with 38, 12 seconds, achieved at the 1997 World Championships in Athens where the Ghanaian team finished fifth in the final.

The presidential election is won by 50 % plus one vote whilst the parliamentary elections is won by simple majority, and, as is predicted by Duverger's law, the voting system has encouraged Ghanaian politics into a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

Obo Addy ( January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012 ) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.

He cites a Ghanaian artist who wrote, " we are linked together like a chain ; we are linked in life, we are linked in death ; persons who share a common blood relation never break away from one another.

Turkson is the first Ghanaian cardinal, and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave, which selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Hammer of The Last Two's groomed artiste line up also eventually became some of the biggest artiste in hiplife today ... e. g. Kwaw Kesse, Ayigbe Edem, Odeshi, Obrafour, Tinny, Sarkodie, Koo Wiase etc., Other Ghanaian rappers like Lord Kenya, Obour, V. I. P, The Native Funk Lords ( Rapping mainly in pidgin English ), Castro Destroyer and MzBel continued the trend of hiplife music which is now one of the most popular forms of music in West Africa.

On 14 August 2005, Lyon and Chelsea agreed a £ 24. 4 million fee for the Ghanaian, finally ending one of the longest-running transfer sagas.

During his political career, he was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah.

He was descended from the royal family of Ofori Panyin Fie, once the rulers of the Akyem states, and still then one of the most influential families in Ghanaian politics.