{"id":97821,"date":"2015-03-09T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97821"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:00:33","slug":"heritagemonth2015-tudu-from-a-disease-control-enclave-to-commercial-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97821","title":{"rendered":"#HeritageMonth2015: TUDU, from a disease control enclave to commercial center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tudu is a very important commercial area in Accra. It is arguably the most prominent, due to its location and the brisk business that goes on there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tudu was founded in 1908 as a result of the outbreak of the Bubonic plague, by the British.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;RSsIm4TFs5DsSDPla2x6uwMzTq6kScXl&#8221;]Tudu was founded to among other things help in SANITATION CONTROL and DISASTER MANAGEMENT but has grown to be one of the most important areas of commerce in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Early settlers of Tudu consisted of the Yuroba. They were later joined by others including Lebanese, Hausa, Akyem, Ga etc, when it grew in commercial relevance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr Samuel Ntewusu, a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Ghana, explains how TUDU was founded and how things have changed from 1908 till now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Listen and download the full episode below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/194181675&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tudu is a very important commercial area in Accra. It is arguably the most prominent, due to its location and the brisk business that goes on there. Tudu was founded in 1908 as a result of the outbreak of the Bubonic plague, by the British. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;RSsIm4TFs5DsSDPla2x6uwMzTq6kScXl&#8221;]Tudu was founded to among other things help in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":97871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}