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Out of Africa

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The republic of Ghana is country in West Africa bordering the Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means warrior king. Ghana (previously known as the Gold Coast) was the first African nation to achieve independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. The climate is tropical and Accra, the capital, extremely hot and humid. Ghana is well endowed with natural resources including gold, timer, cocoa, diamond, bauxite and manganese, although poverty is evident everywhere. Nonetheless, Ghana remains one of the more economically sound countries in all of Africa. Accra, a city with a population of 2,096,653 is the largest city as well as the capital of Ghana.