1st Congress of African Professionals
PROFESSIONALISM IN AFRICA: Problems and Prospects
3rd - 5th March, 2010, Golden Tulip Kumasi City, Ghana

About Kumasi, Ghana

The 1st Congress of African Professionals in 2010 will hold in Ghana, which is a West African country bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo in Lat. 5o 36’’N and Long.0o 10’’E.

Ghana has a total area of 238,540 km2 and a population of over 17million.

The climate is tropical, the eastern coastal belt is warm and comparatively dry; the southwest corner, hot and humid; and the north, hot and dry.

For several years now Ghana has been playing host to an ever-increasing number of visitors, especially tourists from all over the world.

Ghanaians are a hospitable, respectable and peace-loving people. Visitors from all over the world are sure to be well received in any Ghanaian community that they happen to visit.

Kumasi City

Kumasi is a city in southern central Ghana's Ashanti region. It is located near the Lake Bosomtwe, in the Rain Forest Region about 250 km (by road) northwest of Accra. Kumasi is approximately 300 miles north of the Equator and 100 miles north of the Gulf of Guinea. It is popularly known as "The Garden City" of Ghana because of its many beautiful species of flowers and plants.

With a population of 1,517,000, Kumasi is the second-largest city in the country. Approximately 80% of the population is Christian and 5% Muslim, with a smaller number of adherents to traditional beliefs.

Features of the city include the large Kumasi Central Market, Tafo kumasi, Fort Kumasi (built by the British in 1896 to replace an Asante fort and now a museum) and the Kumasi Hat Museum. Royal Asante attractions include the Kumasi National Cultural Centre (including the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum with various Asante regalia including a reproduction of the golden stool), the Okomfo Anokye Sword, the Asantehene's Palace (built in 1972), and the Manhiya Palace, dating from 1925, now a museum.

Kumasi is also home to a zoo, and to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Ghana (formerly the Kumasi College of Technology).

The city's most famous son is the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.

Kumasi is served by Kumasi Airport and railway lines to Accra and Takoradi.