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Although women are guaranteed political participation rights under the 1992 Ghana Constitution, there is a lack of female representation in government. There has never been a female president in Ghana. In 2012, 19 women occupied seats in Parliament, while 246 men occupied the rest of the seats. [3] In 2017, the number of women elected to ...
Ewe, also written Evhe, or Eʋe, is a major dialect cluster of Gbe or Tadoid (Capo 1991, Duthie 1996) spoken in the southern parts of the Volta Region, in Ghana and across southern Togo, [ 22] to the Togo-Benin border by about three million people. Ewe belongs to the Gbe family of Niger-Congo.
The Asante, also known as Ashantiin English (/əˈʃɑːntiː/ ⓘ), are part of the Akanethnic groupand are native to the Ashanti Regionof modern-day Ghana. Asantes are the last group to emerge out of the various Akan civilisations. Twiis spoken by over nine million Asante people as their native language.
The Mandinka or Malinke[ note 1] are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. [ 19] Numbering about 11 million, [ 20][ 21] they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the ...
Akan people. The Akan ( / ˈækæn /) people are a Kwa group living primarily in present-day Ghana and in parts of Ivory Coast and Togo in West Africa. The Akan speak dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. [ 2]
The Mandé peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of native African ethnic groups who speak Mande languages. Various Mandé-speaking ethnic groups are found particularly in the western regions of West Africa. The Mandé languages are divided into two primary groups: East Mandé and West Mandé. The Mandinka or Malinke, a western branch of the ...
The status of women in Africa is varied across nations and regions. For example, Rwanda is the only country in the world where women hold more than half the seats in parliament — 51.9% as of July 2019, [ 12][ 13] but Morocco only has one female minister in its cabinet. [ 13]
Akua'ba, also spelled akwaba or akuba, are wooden ritual fertility dolls originating from western Ghana and nearby regions. [1] They are particularly associated with the Fanti people, who are part of the Akan group of ethnicities in Ghana and Ivory Coast. The dolls are characterized by their large, disc-like heads and are used traditionally by ...