This project led by Dr. Nilirmi Samuel Nkumbaan of the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies attempted to archaeologically survey and document the heritage resources of Manya Jorpanya. Manya Jorpanya is a community located in the Shai/Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It has a rich migratory history related to the general migratory history of the Ga-Adangme group of people in Ghana. It is generally established that the se/shai people settled within the hills in the Accra plains and were in 1892, forcefully evicted from the hills by the British Colonial Administration (Gblerkpor, 2017; 2005; 2008; Gblerkpor and Nkumbaan, 2014). This implies that the evicted communities hurriedly abandoned their settlements in the hills, leaving a wealth of archaeological and heritage resources at these old settlement sites, which are yet to be scientifically studied and documented.
The research project was to help crystallise a research initiative that only concerned minor practical training of students and expand the frontiers of archaeological survey and documentation of the heritage resources of Manya Jorpanya.