Description:
Ghana, the name of a country in West Africa, is derived from the Akan word Ga-na, meaning 'land of the gold'. The name was first recorded in the ninth century in the form Annan Ghana, meaning 'land of the Akan people'. The Akan people are a group of people who inhabit the Gold Coast region of Ghana. The word Ghana also may be derived from the word Ga-na-ma, meaning 'great land'.




