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	Ghana was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones Date Process Result May 13, 2012 Good article nominee Not listed June 7, 2012 Good article nominee Not listed
	Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " On this day..." column on March 6, 2005, March 6, 2006, March 6, 2007, March 6, 2008, March 6, 2009, March 6, 2010, March 6, 2011, March 6, 2012, July 1, 2012, March 6, 2013, July 1, 2013, March 6, 2014, July 1, 2014, March 6, 2015, March 6, 2016, March 6, 2017, July 1, 2017, March 6, 2018, July 1, 2018, March 6, 2019, July 1, 2019, March 6, 2020, July 1, 2020, July 1, 2021, July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023.
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The article says "On 6 March 1957, Ghana became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sovereignty.'

Anyone heard of South Africa? Ferrabosco ( talk) 10:37, 16 December 2023 (UTC) reply

I'm not an expert on this topic. A cursory reading, of some of the references cited for this sentence, does not seem to support the claim.

Perhaps the editor who wrote that text meant that Ghana was the first republic (1960 vs. 1961 for South Africa)? Or maybe the editor meant that Ghana was the first country to gain independence in the post-World-War-II wave? Mgnbar ( talk) 15:03, 16 December 2023 (UTC) reply

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"Music incorporates types of musical instruments such as the talking drum ensembles, Akan Drum, goje fiddle and koloko lute, court music, including the Akan Seperewa, the Akan atumpan, the Ga kpanlogo styles, and log xylophones used in asonko music.[254] African jazz was created by Kofi Ghanaba.[255] "

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"Music incorporates types of musical instruments such as the talking drum ensembles, gyil, Akan Drum, goje fiddle and koloko lute, court music, including the Akan Seperewa, the Akan atumpan, the Ga kpanlogo styles, and log xylophones used in asonko music.[254] African jazz was created by Kofi Ghanaba.[255] " Leitmotif88 ( talk) 15:27, 6 March 2024 (UTC) reply

 Not done: I don't see a reason to add an additional example. ― Blaze Wolf ^Talk_{blaze__wolf} 16:31, 6 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Under the Science and Technology tab, it states that Ghana spends 1 percent of its GDP on space exploration. This statistic is not sourced. This seems extremely unlikely, because the USA only spends about 0.6% of GDP on space exploration. 1% of Ghana's GDP would be 700 million USD, and I can find no evidence of such large spending. 38.49.79.174 ( talk) 03:43, 7 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I wanted to request an edit- can someone who knows how to do so, fix the current error- a table in the geography section has been extended to the rest of the article, so that half of the article is colored grey, clearly an error. I don't know how to fix this. Thanks Varoart2005 ( talk) 03:50, 7 March 2024 (UTC) reply