Ga District is a former district that was located in

Greater Accra Region The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988. However in 2004, it was split off into two new districts:

Ga West District Ga West Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Ga District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Ga East District ...

(which it was elevated to municipal district assembly status on 29 February 2008; capital:

Amasaman Amasama is a small town and is the capital of Ga West Municipal District, an MMDA located within the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The town is known for the Amasama Secondary Technical School. The school is a second cycle The second (symb ...

) and

Ga East District Ga East Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Ga District in 1988, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Ga East District ...

(which it was also elevated to municipal district assembly status on 29 February 2008; capital: Abokobi). The district assembly was located in the western part of Greater Accra Region and had

as its capital town.

Tribes

The Ga District is divided in different sub-areas. The Ga people are the original citizens of the Ga District. Today Ga is a melting pot of different cultural and ethnic groups from all over the world.

Important historical GaDangmemei

Great GaDangme historical personalities who contributed significantly to the development of the GaDangme people, traditions, and culture, and Ghana (formerly, the Gold Coast) include: * Dr.

Ebenezer Ako Adjei Ebenezer may refer to: Bible * Eben-Ezer, a place mentioned in the Books of Samuel People * Ebenezer (given name), a male given name Places Australia * Ebenezer, New South Wales * Ebenezer, Queensland, a locality in the City of Ipswich * Ebeneze ...

(1916-2002) * Dr.

Benjamin Quartey-Papafio Benjamin William Quarteyquaye Quartey-Papafio, (25 June 1859 – 14 September 1924) was a physician pioneer and politician on the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast - the first Ghanaian people, Ghanaian to obtain the medical degree (Doctor o ...

(1859-1924) * Lt. General

Joseph Arthur Ankrah Joseph Arthur Ankrah Born (18 August 1915 – 25 November 1992) was a Ghanaian army general who was the head of state of Ghana from 1966 to 1969 in the position of Chairman of the National Liberation Council. Before becoming head of state, Ank ...

(1915-1992), soldier and head of state 1966–69. * Sir

Emmanuel Quist Immanuel ( he, עִמָּנוּאֵל, 'Īmmānū'ēl, meaning, "God is with us"; also Romanization of Hebrew, romanized: , ; and or in Koine Greek of the New Testament) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that ...

(died 1959), judge and politician * Nene Annorkwei II (born 1900), QMC, GM * Rev. Carl Christian Reindorf (1834-1917) * Rev. Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma (1863-1921) * Christian Josiah Reindorf (1868-1937) * Edmund Bannerman (1832-1903) * Rev. John Ahoomah Solomon * George Cleland * Daniel Quaye Tawiah ("Kwei Nungua") * Rev. E. A. W. Engmann (1903-1983) * King Tackie Yaaboi * Hon. John Glover-Addo (1873-1933), lawyer and politician * King Tackie Tawiah I * Hon. Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr. (1865-1931), lawyer and politician * Chief John Vanderpuije * Hon. Sir Nene Azu Mate-Kole * Hon. Dr. Frederick Nanka-Bruce (1878-1953), physician, journalist and politician *

Tetteh Quarshie Tetteh Quarshie (1842 – 25 December 1892) was a pre-independence Ghanaian agriculturalist and the person directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Ghana, which today constitute one of the major export crops of the Ghanaian econ ...

(1842-1892), father of Ghana's cocoa industry

References

Districts of Greater Accra Region Former districts of Ghana Greater Accra Region {{GreaterAccra-geo-stub