Greater Accra Region

The Ga people celebrate the Homowo festival, which literally means "hooting at hunger."

It is celebrated in remembrance of a great famine that hit the Ga people in the sixteenth century.

The Adangbe people from Ada celebrate the Asafotu festival, which is also called 'Asafotufiam', an annual warrior's festival celebrated by Ada people from the last Thursday of July to the first weekend of August commemorates the victories of the warriors in battle and is a memorial for those who fell on the battlefield.

This is also a time for male rites of passage, when young men are introduced to warfare.

They are accompanied by traditional military groups called 'Asafo Companies' amidst drumming, singing and dancing through the streets and on the durbar grounds.

Under this administration system, the region is divided into 29 MMDA's (made up of 2 Metropolitan, 23 Municipal and 4 Ordinary Assemblies).

They form the largest ethnic sub-group in the Greater Accra Region, with 18.9% of the population.

Each town had a stool, which served as the central object of Ga ritual and war magic.

[4] The Ga people were originally farmers, but today fishing and trading in imported goods are the principal occupations.

Inheritance of other property and succession to male-held public offices are by patrilineal descent.

The Adangme People include the Ada, Le Kpone, Krobo, Ningo, Osuduku, Prampram, and Shai, all speaking Adangbe of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages.

They form the largest ethnic sub-group in the Greater Accra Region, with 18.9% of the population.

N1 enters the region in Ada to the east and runs west, intersecting the N2 at Tema, the Ghana Road Network Tetteh Quarshie Interchange, and the N6 at Achimota.

Districts of the Greater Accra Region