'Ghana is the name, We wish to proclaim, We will be jolly merry and gay, The 6th of March Independence day.' This song was written and performed by Lord Kitchener in 1957 to celebrate Ghana getting their independence from Great Britain after years of war, slavery and trade. It tells a short version

Did you know that this famous piece, as we know it now, is the result of an arrangement by a man named August Wilhelmj? He transposed Bach's original so that the violin part can be played entirely on...you guessed it... the G string. The original was written in the 1700's which puts it in the Baroqu