Nyorja farm settlement
The place
Nyorja farm settlement (Ewe rural settlement) in the Volta Region, Hohoe/Kadjebi area (eastern Ghana, on the Togolese border, Ghana), at 115 m elevation, on the Volta-Oti plateau. New Ghana cluster appearing in batch 350. Traditional farming settlement of the Ewe people (surname "Nyorja", Ewe for "wisdom"), in a Guinean savanna + semi-deciduous transition forest zone and the Volta River Basin (Akosombo Dam, 1965, Nkrumah, pan-Africanist father of independence 1957, artificial lake + Lake Volta, 8,500 km², the world's second-largest artificial lake after Lake Kariba, hydroelectric, 1020 MW, powering aluminum industrialization at the Volta Aluminium Company, Valco), Ewe heritage (Gbe-Kwa people, 3 M across Ghana, Togo and Benin, transnational Ewe language, Vodun culture, 100 M practitioners across West Africa).
The setting
Volta Hohoe/Kadjebi eastern Ghana TG border Ghana 115 m Volta-Oti plateau, new cluster batch 350, Ewe settlement Nyorja wisdom, Guinean savanna + semi-deciduous forest + Volta River Basin Akosombo 1965 Nkrumah pan-Africanist indep 1957 + Lake Volta 8,500 km² world's 2nd-largest artificial lake after Kariba 1020 MW aluminum Valco, Ewe Gbe-Kwa 3 M GH+TG+BJ Vodun 100 M practitioners West Africa.
