Ga Mashie

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Ga Mashie is a historic coastal community in Accra, Ghana, regarded as the traditional heartland and cultural center of the Ga people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Ga Mashie canonical 3
Ga-Mashie 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic community
traditional area
urban neighborhood
alsoKnownAs Ga Traditional Area
Accra
surface form: Old Accra
borderedBy Korle Lagoon
central business district of Accra
climate tropical savanna climate
contains Jamestown
Usshertown
country Ghana
culturalCenterOf Ga people
culturalSignificance symbolic heartland of Ga identity
demographicCharacteristic predominantly Ga-speaking population
economicActivity fish processing
small-scale commerce
ethnicGroup Ga people
governedBy Ga Traditional Council
hasActivity artisanal fishing
informal trading
hasCulturalPractice kpele rituals
traditional drumming and dancing
hasLandmark Bukom area
James Fort
Jamestown Lighthouse
Ussher Fort
hasLeaderTitle Ga Mantse
heritageStatus recognized as historic core of Accra
historicalRole center of pre-colonial Ga polity
original settlement of Accra
knownFor Ga cultural festivals
Homowo festival
surface form: Homowo celebrations

boxing tradition
fishing community
historic colonial architecture
language Ga
locatedIn Accra
Greater Accra Region
locatedOn Atlantic coast
Gulf of Guinea
partOf Accra
surface form: Accra Metropolis
religion Christianity
traditional Ga religion
timeZone Greenwich Mean Time
traditionalCapitalOf Ga people
urbanCharacteristic high-density housing
informal settlements

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ga people subgroup Ga Mashie
Homowo festival regionOfOrigin Ga Mashie
Tema (Ga) ethnicRelation Ga Mashie
this entity surface form: Ga-Mashie