Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president in the post-colonial republican era initiated several power boosting projects to enhance the country’s industrial and research programs. Sadly the most important yet powerful energy source, The Kwabenya Nuclear Reactor Project was quickly abandoned when he was ousted. But in 2022, under the leadership of President Akuffo Addo (soon […]
Monthly Archives: April 2024
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Until 1939, Thailand was known as the Kingdom of Siam. The Kingdom of Siam became Thailand under Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who was prime minister from 1938 to 1944. After the Second World War, Phibunsongkhram and some of his acolytes were accused of war crimes, but were acquitted. Since 1973, the history of Thailand has been marked […]
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The Ga Adangme Kingdom is divided into three principal divisions based on ancestral migrations and peculiar cultures namely: 1. Ga Mashi (Accra) 2 Dangme (Head) (to the east and north), and3 Obutu or Awutu to the (east). The Ga Traditional Council comprise of the followings: 1 Ga Mantse2 Gbese3 Asere4 Abola5 Otublohum6 Sempe7 Ngleshi8 Akunmadzen9 […]
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Agogo is a town in the Asante Akim North District. It is the administrative capital of Asante Akyem North Municipal. Agogo is approximately 80 kilometers east of Kumasi located at 6.80004 (latitude in decimal degrees), -1.08193 (longitude in decimal degrees) at an elevation/altitude of 396 meters. The average elevation of Agogo in Asante Akim North […]
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After migrating from Adanse, later to Asuom, the ancesters of Juaso settled at the banks of the Dwabo river. Most Akan settlements were built on banks of rivers. This was because, they migrated by foot for months from place to place due to wars and unfavourable environmental conditions and will sometimes find it difficult to […]
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BOMPATA was established by Nana Addo Kwaata of Aninsua who was the maternal nephew of Nana Akometam and Anopim whose father Nana Frempong Manso, Akyem Kotokuhene gifted the land of Bompata to them. Their mother was Nana Ofosua. During the civil war between Juaben and Kumase in November, 1875, the Amantena people fled their homes after […]
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Atibie is one of the towns encapsulated in the Kwahu Traditional Area and the Twi-speaking Kwahu ethnic group in the mountainous Eastern region of Ghana. The town lies on the west of Mpraeso. River Asuboni flows between Atibie and Mpraeso and serves as the natural boundary (Opoku-Asiamah, 2020). The town’s appellation is Ɔtwerefo Tim nana […]