Wednesday 20 November 2013

Mole National Park




The beauty of wildlife


Mole National Park is Ghana's biggest wildlife. The park is situated in northwest Ghana on grassland savanna and riparian ecosystems at an elevation of 150 m, with sharp escarpment forming the southern boundary of the park. The park's entrance is reached through the nearby town of Larabanga. The Lovi and Mole Rivers are ephemeral rivers flowing through the park, leaving behind only drinking holes during the long dry season. This area of Ghana receives over 1000 mm per year of rainfall. A long-term study has been done on Mole National Park to understand the impact of human hunters on the animals in the preserve.

The park's lands were set aside as a wildlife refuge in 1958. In 1971 the small human population of the area was relocated and the lands were designated a national park. The park has not seen major development as a tourist location since its original designation. The park as a protective area is underfunded and national and international concerns exist about poaching and sustainability in the park, but its protection of important resident antelope species has improved since its initial founding as a preserve. 

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The park is an important study area for scientists because of the removal of the human population from within the park allowing for some long-term studies, in particular, of relatively undisturbed sites compared to similar areas of densely populated equatorial West Africa. One study on the resident population of 800 elephants, for example, indicates that elephant damage to large trees varies with species. In Mole, elephants have a greater tendency to seriously injure economically important species such as Burkea africana, an important tropical hardwood, and Butyrospermum paradoxum, the source of shea butter, over the less important Terminalia .
Tourist at the park

Burkea africana is a member of the Legume Family that is common throughout Tropical Africa including Ghana's Mole National Park.

Tuesday 12 November 2013


                      KWAME NKRUMAH MAUSOLEUM AND MEMORIAL PARK

 
walk way at the park









Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, also know as the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park KNMP is the last resting place of the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. It is dedicated to him for his outstanding campaign to liberate Ghana by then Gold Coast from colonial rule in 6th March,1957.

The entrance to the site is from the 28th February High Street just along the coast from Independence Square. It is located directly opposite the old Parliament House now known as the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice CHRAJ.

I visited the Kwame Nkrumah museum and memorial park one fine Saturday. The museum was quite small, but had some interesting articles from his life, even a bookcase he used while studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

 Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana, and its liberation hero. He studied at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania as a youth. He was exiled after serving several years as president, when a military coup forced him to leave. He stayed in Guinea another West African country, where he was named co-president. link http//en.wikipedia,org/wiki/Ghana for more information

About twenty years after his death, Nkrumah’s remains were transferred to the memorial park in Accra.
 The site of the garden has particular significance. Not only was it once a polo field that only European expatriates could play on, it was also where Nkrumah declared Ghana’s independence in the 1950′s.

The museum and some of the statues had the word “Osagyefo” before Nkrumah’s name. It means “redeemer” in the most prominent traditional language in Ghana, Twi.




fountains at the park




 It is a nice place for travelers to know more about Kwame Nkrumah ,i like every thing on that site.
Kwame Nkrumah, (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President Of Ghana and the first Pime minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism.
                                                 video link youtube.Kwame Nkrumah the redeemer
 To get a real feel and understanding of this amazing country, a visit to Kwame Nkrumah Park and Museum  is a must. I gained a better understanding of Ghana, its journey to independence and its hope for freedom and African unification through peace. Kwame Nkrumah, though his actions and influence, has left a lasting mark on our world.