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A city of history
Oguaa holds centuries of memory along its shoreline, from its castle and old town to the institutions that shaped modern Ghana.
Cape Coast / Oguaa
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Cape Coast is not simply part of the story. It is where the story begins.
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Traditional leadership
The Oguaa Traditional Council and its chiefs remain custodians of custom, land and identity.
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The coastline
The sea gives Cape Coast its livelihood, its festivals and its responsibility to protect what remains.
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Education
Home to celebrated schools and a university, the city has long educated Ghana's leaders.
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Commerce & tourism
Markets, makers and visitors form an economy with room to grow.
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Future opportunity
Young people are the city's most important resource, and the reason the work continues.
Orange Friday
When a city becomes a celebration.
Orange Friday brings Cape Coast together in the season of Fetu Afahye, filling the streets with colour, music, commerce and the creative economy of the city.
Charles Kojo Walker has taken part in and supported Orange Friday activity. The precise nature of his association will be described here once confirmed.
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