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Ghana: __**Tribes**__

Ghana has ten regions. Each region has a majority tribe of its own.The Northern Region has its people known as Dogombas. The Upper East Region comprises of a tribe called Mamprusi and the Upper West Region is a tribe called Frafra. Down the Frafra's to the south, there is a region called Brong Ahafo, they speak a language known in Ghana as Brong. The Ashanti's occupies the whole of the Ashanti region, and they are part of the tribe that forms the majority speaking Akan language. The Ashanti people of the Akan, from which nearly half of the Ghanaian population is descended, comprise the largest tribe in Ghana and one of the few matrilineal societies in West Africa. West to the Ashanti region there is a tribe called the Adansi's. They also speak the Akan language with a slight dialect. The Fante's share's boundary with the Adansi's and they are at an area right down at the western coast of the country. In Accra which is the capital, lived another tribe known as the Ga's. East to the Ga's along the coast there is another tribe known as Ada. In the southeastern portion of Ghana which borders the Republic of Togo there is another group of people called the Ewe.