Ga District

Ga was a former district of Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It has since been divided into the Ga East District and the Ga West District.

The Ga District is divided in different sub-areas. The Ga people are the original citizens of the Ga district/state. Today Ga is a melting pot of different cultural and ethnic groups from all over the world.

Important historical GaDangmemei

Great GaDangme historical personalities who contributed significantly to the development of the GaDangme people, traditions, and culture, and Ghana (formerly, the Gold Coast) include:

• Dr. Ebenezer Ako Adjei (1916-2002)
• Dr. Benjamin Quartey-Papafio (1859-1924)
• Lt. General Joseph Arthur Ankrah (1915-1992), soldier and head of state 1966-69.
• Sir Emmanuel Quist (died 1959), judge and politicisn
• Nene Annorkwei II (born 1900), QMC, GM
• Rev. Carl Christian Reindorf (1834-1917)
• Rev. Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma (1863-1921)
• Christian Josiah Reindorf (1868-1937)
• Edmund Bannerman (1832-1903)
• Rev. John Ahoomah Solomon
• George Cleland
• Daniel Quaye Tawiah ("Kwei Nungua")
• Rev. E. A. W. Engmann (1903-1983)
• King Tackie Yaaboi
• Hon. John Glover-Addo (1873-1933), lawyer and politician
• King Tackie Tawiah I
• Hon. Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr. (1865-1931), lawyer and politician
• Chief John Vanderpuije
• Hon. Sir Nene Azu Mate-Kole
• Hon. Dr. Frederick Nanka-Bruce (1878-1953), physician, journalist and politician
• Tetteh Quarshie (1842-1892), father of Ghana's cocoa industry