A dog in Ghana is being called hero, after staying by a newborn baby boy through the night. After the Boy was abandoned by his mother, a canine in the town of Winkongo was found cradling the boy, who’s umbilical cord was still attached. The owners did not know why their pet had ran off and later […]
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Race Relations: Ghana’s Foreign Chiefs
In 1680 in the forests of central and southern Ghana, the high priest to King Osei Tutu I called down a golden stool from the heavens and gave Tutu the divine foundation on which he would build the mighty Ashanti Empire. The Ashanti combined strength in war — conquering lands from what is now Ivory Coast in the west to Togo in the east and defeating British colonizers several times — with skill in art, particularly sculpture and cloth