Geography
This body of water borders Ghana to the south.
What is the Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic Ocean)?
Ghana was known by this name during British colonial rule, due to its gold trade.
What is the Gold Coast?
Many Akan Ghanaians receive a name based on this, such as Kwame or Ama.
What is the day of the week they were born?
In this year, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from colonial rule.
What is 1957?
This spicy, tomato-and-pepper-based rice dish is a beloved Ghanaian staple also popular across West Africa.
What is jollof rice?
This city is Ghana's capital and largest city.
What is Accra?
This medieval West African empire (c. 4th–13th century), though located further northwest, lent its name to modern Ghana.
What is the Ghana Empire (Wagadou)?
This brightly colored, hand-woven cloth of the Akan people is one of Ghana's most iconic textiles.
What is Kente cloth?
This man, a leading Pan-Africanist, served as Ghana's first prime minister and president.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This bean, a major Ghanaian export used to make chocolate, is grown extensively in the country's forested south.
What is the cacao (cocoa) bean?
Ghana shares land borders with these three countries.
What are Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Togo?
Built by the Portuguese in 1482 at Elmina, this is one of the oldest European-built structures in sub-Saharan Africa and a major site in the transatlantic slave trade.
What is Elmina Castle (St. George's Castle)?
This dense, doughy Ghanaian staple is made by pounding boiled cassava and plantain (or yam) and is often eaten with soup.
What is fufu?
This is the name of Ghana's official currency.
What is the cedi?
This large national park in northern Ghana is home to elephants, antelope, and over 90 mammal species.
What is Mole National Park?
Ghana's longest river feeds this massive reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.
What is Lake Volta (fed by the Volta River)?
Centered on Kumasi, this powerful pre-colonial empire dominated the region from the 17th to 19th centuries.
What is the Asante (Ashanti) Empire?
Celebrated by the Ga people of Accra, this festival name literally means 'hooting at hunger' and marks a bountiful harvest.
What is Homowo?
Ghana's current constitution, adopted in 1992, established this era of stable multi-party democracy, still in effect today.
What is the Fourth Republic?
This soupy, spicy stew, often made with fish, meat, or okra, is commonly eaten with banku or fufu.
What is Nkatɛnkwan or groundnut soup
This dam, completed in 1965 on the Volta River, created Lake Volta and supplies much of Ghana's hydroelectric power.
What is the Akosombo Dam?
According to legend, this sacred golden object descended from the sky to establish the Asante monarchy under Osei Tutu.
What is the Golden Stool (Sika Dwa Kofi)?
This Ghanaian music genre, blending highlife with hip-hop and dancehall, emerged in the 1990s–2000s.
What is Highlife?
This large public square in Accra, featuring the Independence Arch, commemorates the declaration of Ghana's independence.
What is Black Star Square (Independence Square)?
The fermented locust bean seasoning used across northern Ghana
What is dawadawa