Ghana National Council of Metropolitan Chicago

CTL-E-0389 · Organization · other · unspecified

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Umbrella organization of Chicago's Ghanaian community; grew out of the 1960s Ghana Students' Union and sponsors GhanaFest.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-073; source research type(s): Organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Migration Letters article on African migrant associations in Chicago
Ghanafest (encyclopedia entry); GhanaFest 2018 (The Visualist)

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