MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS, REFERENCES AND LINKS ON GHANA

Sey, K. A, Ghanaian English, Macmillan, 1973

Benjamin Kwakye's _The clothes of nakedness_ (Heinemann, 1998 ; African writers series), a novel on town life in Ghana.  A dramatized version in two parts, was broadcast by the BBC as its play of the week in February 2001.

Ghana Studies Council homepage [maintained by Larry Yarak]:
http://people.tamu.edu/~yarak/gsc.html

GHANA - A Country Study [full text] (Library of Congress, 1994) edited by L. Berry
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ghtoc.html

Ghana--Description and Travel
Lonely Planet - Destination: Ghana
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/afr/gha.htm

Ghana-Discussion list
okyeame@mit.edu

Ghana--Maps, Historical maps
Maps of Ghana and West Africa by C. K. Ladzekpo
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/maps.html

Ghana Media Gateway "provides Internet resources for journalists and links to media websites. The Gateway also provides a selection of editorials from Ghana’s newspapers." http://www.ghanamedia.com/

Daily Graphic (Accra; on-line newspaper)
www.graphic.com.gh

Ghana - leading ISP
http://www.ghana.com


The Ghanaian Newsrunner is a bi-weekly publication set up to serve the Ghanaian community in Holland. It brings current news from both Ghana and the Netherlands every two weeks
www.newsrunner.com

This site "provides a refreshing perspective on Ghana and includes an overview of its history and geography, a food section, travel information, business guides and much more."
www.ghanadata.com

Ghana News
http://www.ghana.com/republic/dailies.html

Ghana Review International:
http://www.ghanareview.co.uk/

LESSONS FROM GHANA: USING PRIMARY SOURCES FROM GHANA  created by Angene H. Wilson Professor, University of Kentucky after her Fulbright Scholar experience in Ghana, January-June 1997 http://www.uky.edu/~cpd458/Ghanalessons.htm

Adinkra Symbols and Their Meanings

http://www.welltempered.net/adinkra

 

Historical photographs (Basel Mission) dating from 1860

The web-site includes a substantial essay in interpretation of the use of photographs for themes of interest to historians, written by Emmanuel Akyeampong.  www.bmpix.org