Ghana,is a west African country that spans the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic ocean to the south, sharing borders with the Côte d’Ivoire in the west,Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east. With over 31 million people, Ghana is the second-most populous in west Africa, after Nigeria.
The capital and largest city is Accra; other major cities include Kumasi, Tamale and Secondi-Takoradi. Ghana is an average natural resource enriched country possessing industrial, hydrocarbons and precious metals. It is an emerging designated digital economy with mixed economy hybridization and an emerging market. It has an economic plan target known as “Ghana vision 2020”.
This plan envisions Ghana as the first African country to become a developed country between 2020 and 2029 and a newly industrialized country between 2030 and 2039. To see this happen they are constructing a lot of infrastructure to aid in the realization of this dream. Most innovative architects in Ghana have set out to respond to one of society’s greatest challenge: designing a world today that can adapt to a radically different tomorrow.
From energy and power healthcare, Ghana has a well-balanced range of projects that have broken the ground. Welcome to Young Cyfer’s page, the opera news page which brings to you entrepreneurial, business and personal development content to inform, motivate and inspire you! Lets get it started,
1. Tetteh Quarshie cocoa museum.
In 1879, a Ghanaian agriculturalist called Tetteh Quarshie brought some cocoa seeds back from an expedition to Equatorial Guinea and planted them in his village. Ghana would go on to produce more than half of the world’s cocoa supply at one point. Now a group of architects hopes to build a cocoa museum in his honor. The establishment of the cocoa museum is in line with the vision of the government to promote local consumption of cocoa. Lebanese-Ghanaian firm KEY Architectural group is hoping to revive the Ghanaian village of Mampong while celebrating it’s past and aiding it’s economic upliftment.
The founders of KEY, have conceptualize the Tetteh Quarshie cocoa museum, which they plan to build on the farm where the first cocoa seeds were planted in Ghana. The area holds particular significance in the story of Ghana’s economic growth. The plans, which were commissioned by Ghana’s tourism department, includes the museum itself, an amphitheater,a multipurpose hall, a restaurant, landscaped gardens and a factory. The design also purposes that the whole process-from cocoa harvesting through to fermentation, roasting and manufacturing-be accommodated at the site.
2. Pokuase Interchange.
The project, which is the first of it’s kind in the west Africa region and second only to South Africa in the whole of Africa begun on July 3, 2018 after a sod-cutting ceremony presided over by Yaw Osafo-Marfo, a senior minister of Ghana.
The Pokuasi Interchange project is been constructed in Ga north municipal district, one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra region, Ghana. The project is been executed under the Accra urban transport project and supervised by the DUR under the ministry of roads and highways, the Awshie-pokuasi interchange project is mainly aimed at removing the traffic jam at the Pokuasi ACP junction by preventing streams of traffic conflicting with one another from the Awoshie-Pokuasi and Accra-Kumasi roads. Apart from the main interchange, there are also a number of ancillary works Incorporated into the project to provide improvement and upgrade of adjoining communities. They include the construction of drains, a little over 10-km of town roads, two footbridges that come with a ramp for the physically challenged, and a tunnel to serve water to communities that are not connected to Ghana Water Company Limited Network.
Provision of road signs and other traffic management are safety features such as crush barriers, handrails, road line markings, traffic lights, zebra crossing and street lighting have also been factored into the project.
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