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There are approximately thirteen nationally recognized public holidays in Ghana, a sub-Saharan country in Africa. The primary National holiday is Independence Day, which is on 6 March. It is a National Day and is set to honor the memory of Ghana's independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. This is a list of public holidays in Ghana.
The Tabular Islamic calendar is a rule-based variation of the Islamic calendar, in which months are worked out by arithmetic rules rather than by observation or astronomical calculation. It has a 30-year cycle with 11 leap years of 355 days and 19 years of 354 days. In the long term, it is accurate to one day in about 2,500 solar years or 2,570 ...
Akan calendar. The Akan people (a Kwa group of West Africa) appear to have used a traditional system of timekeeping based on a six-day week (known as nnanson "seven-days" via inclusive counting ). The Gregorian seven-day week is known as nnawɔtwe (eight-days). The combination of these two system resulted in periods of 40 days, known as ...
Islam was the first Abrahamic monotheistic religion to arrive in Ghana. Today, it is the second most widely professed religion in the country behind Christianity. Its presence in Ghana dates back to the 10th century. According to the Ghana Statistical Service's Population and Housing census (2021), the percentage of Muslims in Ghana is about 20%.
The Ghana Empire ( Arabic: غانا ), also known as simply Ghana, [ 1] Ghanata, or Wagadou, was a West African classical to post-classical era western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali . It is uncertain when Ghana's ruling dynasty began among historians.
Shia day of Mourning: Martyrdom of Imam Zain-ul-Abideen, 95 A.H. 30 Muharram. September 29, 2019. Shia day of Mourning: 20th day of Ashura. Note: Observed next day in years in which Muharram has only 29 days. 1-30 Safar. September 30 - October 28, 2019. 2nd Month of the Islamic Calendar. 1 Safar.
Jintigi (All Gonja Towns, Northern Region) Kente Festival (Bonwire, Ashanti Region) Kloyosikplem festival (Ghana Eastern region) [39] Kobine. Kpalikpakpa zã ( Kpalime Traditional Area in the Volta Region) Kpini-Kyiu Festival (Wa & Tongu, in the Upper East Region) Kpledjoo. Kundum Festival. Kwafie.
Islam. There are two main holidays in Islam that are celebrated by Muslims worldwide: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The timing of both holidays are set by the lunar Islamic calendar, which is based upon the cycle of the moon, and so is different from the more common, European, solar-based Gregorian calendar. Every year, the Gregorian dates of ...