Beginning in the late 20th century, the number of adherents of Islam began to increase. In the late 1980s only about one-third of Ghana’s population was estimated to be urban, but a steady increase in migration from rural areas into urban centres-some of which expanded at about double the national population growth rate-resulted in almost one-half of Ghana’s population residing in urban centres at the beginning of the 21st century. The seaboard has made the region an important hub of commerce, resulting in the growth of such urban centres as Accra, Cape Coast, and Sekondi-Takoradi. The coastal zone has more urban centres than any other region in Ghana. The purpose of the book is to convey something you were never taught at school – it’s actually talking about a whole zone of knowledge that has been kept at bay, if you like, by established educational institutions in what’s called the West – but west of what? With a well-earned reputation as maritime traders, Buginese immigrants established the sultanate of Selangor on the west coast of Malaya in the mid-1700s. Many present-day Malays are descendants of immigrants from elsewhere in archipelagic Southeast Asia who arrived after 1800. Indeed, immigrants from Java, Celebes, and Sumatra demonstrated a tendency to assimilate to the existing Malay community over time, a process that steadily accelerated with the rise of Malay nationalism and vernacular education in the 1930s. Some of the traditions brought by Minangkabau, Javanese, and other immigrants are still practiced in districts where they settled, contributing to the many regional variations of Malay culture and language.

Apart from the Ewe, the major ethnic groups are the Akwapim and Kwahu in the east, the Akim in the south, the Asante and Brong in the centre and north, and the Wasaw and Sefwi in the west. From east to west the principal ethnic groups are the Ewe, Adangme (Adangbe), Ga, Efutu, Fante, Ahanta, and Nzima. Ezek. 36:26, 27).Today, millions of people are in a daily fight to keep the laws of God, and they are losing the war because they do not understand the Father’s battle plan.His strategy could not be more succinct: “I will put My Spirit within you,” says the Lord. These Greek goddesses, as well as Hermes the messenger god, funneled the spirit into a clay sculpture crafted by Hippolyta, bringing it to life. I know accepting Christ as your SAVIOR is a big step in your life and find the right words can be difficult.

The forest environment and the economic activities and modes of life engendered by it, especially since the introduction of the farming of cacao (source of cocoa beans) in 1879, have served to give the region a common stamp. Although agriculture is mostly of the traditional subsistence type, the introduction of irrigation in the 1960s and mechanized cultivation in the 1980s opened up new prospects. Almost everywhere, agriculture is extensive, rather than intensive, and rural settlements form scattered nuclei surrounded by land that is either under crops or undergoing regeneration. Almost all the timber, cacao, and exploited mineral wealth, as well as a number of minor cash crops grown for export and a large part of the foodstuffs consumed in Ghana, come from the forest region. Farther inland, occupying about one-third of the country, is the forest region with its relatively large and prosperous traditional states and rich agricultural lands. Later the Minangkabau formed a confederation of nine small states (Negeri Sembilan).

While all the peoples in the region have a relatively long history of settlement and political activity, those with the most impressive record are the Asante, who from the 17th to the late 19th century built a political empire centred on Kumasi that included a large number of subject and satellite states spread throughout the forest region and in both the coastal and northern savanna zones. Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world, with approximately 2.8 billion and 1.9 billion adherents, respectively. Islam reached other areas of northern Borneo in the 15th and 16th centuries; many coastal peoples converted, but most of the inhabitants of the interior continued to practice local religions well into the 20th century. This region was formerly occupied by a series of small kingdoms, the inhabitants of which were the first people from what would become Ghana to be exposed to European contact-from the 15th century onward, perhaps even earlier. Then, with a dire need to hear from God, people become confused and frustrated when they don’t clearly hear what they should do. Psalm 46:1) In this world full of technology, it’s wonderful to know we don’t have to text God and find out he’s not available or call him on the phone to find he’s stepped out.