Ghanaian Culture, Economy and Society

Culture, Language and Traditions

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Which language is the official language of Ghana, used in government and schools?
Which language group is the largest in Ghana, including Twi and Fante?
Which colourful hand-woven cloth, worn for special occasions, is most linked to the Ashanti town of Bonwire?
Which Ghanaian cloth is stamped with symbols using carved calabash stamps and dye?
What does the Akan Adinkra symbol Sankofa, shown as a bird looking backward, teach?
What does the Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame stand for?
Among the Akan, which day name is given to a boy born on a Saturday?
Which festival of the Ga people marks a 'hooting at hunger' after a bad harvest?
Which Ashanti ceremony, held every forty-two days, honours ancestors with the Asantehene in procession in Kumasi?
Which festival of the Anlo-Ewe people recalls their escape from a tyrant king in Notsie?
Which dish is made of pounded cassava and plantain and is eaten with soup?
Which dish of rice and beans cooked with sorghum leaves is a street breakfast in Ghana?
Which dish of fried plantain spiced with ginger and pepper is a popular street snack?
Which dish of black-eyed peas stew eaten with fried plantain is called by the colour of the stew and oil?
Which music of Ghana developed in the 1920s and blends local rhythms with guitars and brass bands?
Who is often called the King of Highlife, a Ghanaian trumpeter and bandleader?
Which pair of drums is traditionally used by the Ashanti for talking, imitating the tones of speech?
Which Ghanaian trickster of folk tales takes the form of a spider?
Which author wrote The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, a Ghanaian novel of 1968?
Which Ghanaian author wrote the play The Dilemma of a Ghost?
Which Ghanaian writer and director founded the Ghana Drama Studio and wrote The Marriage of Anansewa?
Which sport is the most popular in Ghana, played by the national team the Black Stars?
Which type of Ghanaian art is a coffin built in the shape of an object linked to the dead person's life?
Which Akan objects were small brass figures used to weigh gold dust in trade?
Among the Akan, a girl born on Thursday is named Yaa. Which boy's name belongs to the same day?

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