Talk:Ghana

The Article Could Be Better

This is why I put on the clean up tag. It's pitifully short

Who the hell is King Obuya?

"King Obuya once ruled Canada for 200 years...a drastic turning point in both countries histories."

That is not true. Canada shares the same royal family as the United Kingdom and is part of the British Commonwealth. You can ignore this King Obuya nonsense.

no mention of african settlers

there could have been mention of the migration of the Fante, Ga, Ewe etc in the article. The are all part of the History of Ghana if not

Copyright Things I think

The first paragraph in the Economy part is from here:https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gh.html#Econ

"TRIBAL EMPIRE???"

What exactly is meant by a "tribal empire"? For this is how the Ashanti Confederation has been described. Ashanti was a confederate state, with a capital, an army, a literate class (in Arabic), actual towns and cities, a multi cultural peasant base and international relations. Where does the tribal come in? Tribe?Ethnicity?French?Akan...Do you mean "Nation", as in "nation state"; an Akan nation state??? This colonial discourse (tribal, primitive...etc) really confuses the historical narrative! Honestly at this piont we are beyond nationalistic reproach, now we just want to speak a common language; what is a "tribal empire"???

please change it. And also I advise that you add or expand sections about the economic sturucture of the Ashanti state, its urbanism (description of its cities, see Connah) and a greater elucidation of its provincial division and political structure.

thank you

As an Ashanti/akan, I am absolutely enraged that you would refer to the Empire of Ashanti as a "tribal empire. Wtf is a tribal empire? Is that what you call britain, france, wtf is that. They are STATES, not tribal empires. I suggest that you people pick up books and actually educate yourselves about Africa before you post shit in an encyclopedia that i formally respected. (Wikipedia). I will proceed to fix the inaccurate insults in this artice, but i suggest that you people educate yourselves.

Konkomba

I looked at the source provided by the IP editor in today's edits and can find nothing related to Konkomba or even ethnicity in general. I dug into the pdfs and online datasets. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 06:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Removed dubious claims from the Lead

The lead of the article contained so many false claims, which i have removed. Here is a list of all i removed and the explanation for the removal:

• "first African nation to declare independence from European colonisation" - I changed this to "sub-saharan" african (even though I'm still not sure of this), cos Egypt, Libya and so many other North African Country got their independence from Europe looong before Ghana.
• "This made the country a symbol of black achievement and an inspiration for African independence movements. It also had a major influence on Pan-Africanism and the Black Pride movements in the United States of America" - This is obviously a sham cos the black pride movement has been around long before Ghana's independence. To top it all, the citation just like the claim is a sham, as it is basically talking about Kwame Nkrumah and what he did, not Ghana...and it doesn't talk about Ghana championing "african independence movement" or "pan africanism" and all sort that was written either.
• "Ghana is one of Africa's most developed countries, performing favorably in indexes of governance, stability, peacefulness" - I clicked on the citations, couldn't find this claim. And I find this too much a dubious claim to leave the claim with a citation tag.
• "GDP is one of the fastest growing in the world" - This is obviously not true (Ghana is number 60 on the list), and the citations do not support the claim.
• "In terms of purchasing power parity per capita income, Ghana has the highest per capita income in the subregion of western Africa, and the tenth−highest per capita income on continental Africa. Ghana is one of only five countries in Africa with a free press." - these weren't cited. The fact that Nigeria (another west african country) alone has a higher gdp per capital (both PPP and nominal) than ghana, makes this claim untrue! And also makes others with it to be suspects.
• " It is one of the world's largest gold and diamond producers" - tagged this with a citation tag
• "Ghana's growing economic prosperity and democratic political system has made it a regional power in West Africa and on continental Africa" - while Ghana is a regional power in west africa, it is not on a regional power on continental level! So I removed that; claim not present in the cited source as well.

All these discrepancies have made me to spot check the article, and it all seem so unneutral! I can't possibly fix this article alone, so I'm tagging the article with neutrality tag.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:28, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

so many issues with this article

"middle-class luxury villa house" simple makes no sense unless "villa house" does not mean "villa" or middle class is not used in socio-econ sense of English today.

Various inconsistencies plague the "history" paragraphs.

An historian, svp ?

99.251.239.140 (talk) 00:38, 29 July 2015 (UTC)