Ghana first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, when it was known by the colonial name of Gold Coast. The nation has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then, missing the 1956 Games, boycotting the 1976 Games in protest of the participation of New Zealand (who still had sporting links with apartheid South Africa), and joining the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Ghana participated in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in Vancouver in 2010.
Ghanaian athletes have won a total of four Olympics medals, three in boxing, and a bronze medal by the under-23 Ghana national football team in 1992.
The National Olympic Committee for Ghana was created in 1952 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year.
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... town located along the Volta River in the Eastern Region of Ghana, and the capital of Asuogyaman District ... The town is the site of the Adomi Bridge, Ghana's largest suspension bridge, and is one of the town's closest to the Akosombo Dam, a hydroelectric facility which supplies the majority of Ghana's power needs ...
... Kingson is the starting goalkeeper of the Ghana national football team, and was called up for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 FIFA World Cup ... during the 2008 African Cup of Nations Tournament in Ghana ... In 2008, he scored a goal for Ghana in a friendly – a late equaliser in a 1–1 draw against Tanzania ...
... Main article Education in Ghana Ghanaian Junior High School students in a classroom, March 2008 The adult literacy rate in Ghana was 75% in 2007, with males at 87.2% and females at 67.1% ... Ghana has a six-year primary education system beginning at age six, and, under the educational reforms implemented in 1987 and reformed in 2007, they ... Presently, Ghana has 21,530 primary schools, 8,850 junior secondary schools, 900 senior secondary schools, 52 public training colleges, 5 private training colleges, 5 ...
... He was raised in Ghana and educated to the equivalent of A-level standard ... He entered Britain on a flight from Ghana in late 2003 ... for 33 years and the judge also recommended that Asiedu be deported back to Ghana upon release ...
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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)