About us

INTRODUCTION

The Cultural Games Association (CGA) is duly registered with government of Ghana through the National Sports Authority (Ministry of Youth and Sports), National Commission on Culture (Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture) and the Registrar General’s Department (Ministry of Justice). CGA maintains its head office in Accra, Ghana, with its international representatives in many African and Western countries. CGA is the only government-recognized organization mandated to research, develop and promote Ghana’s traditional sports and cultural events. The CGA is a diverse not-for-profit cultural events-centred sports agency whose cultural research activities support the development of traditional sports, and the promotions of cultural events.

The CGA’s core objectives support the mission of its establishment and function to ensure people participating in its developed games achieve their sustainable improvements to the overall health and professional development. The Chaskele and Ampe Sports, which the CGA is proud to claim these two most, developed sports as its intellectual property because of its uniqueness in design. Chaskele and the Ampe Sports are now a global sports initiative; having been developed with the idea to create a way to Ghana Traditional Games Exposition, and most importantly, with the aim to raise the visibility of Ghana and Africa’s rich traditional games and sports to reach international dimension. The CGA games and sports are organized and played under full recognition and regulation of the National Sports Authority (Ministry of Youth and Sports)

Among other particular interest in Ghana’s indigenous games development, cultural events promotion which integrate research and resources in diverse local and other international places, the CGA aim to assist the professional players in our locally branded and invented sports to acquire performance standard for effective sponsorship from corporate organizations. The concept of cultural games, sports development and educational service support a broad range of participants’ health and appreciable lifestyle including earning economically sound rewards from corporate sources, and attending media conferences to enhance with recognition and practical needs.

The CGA is an extended traditional sports and games home to people with traditional game interest, elderly people who may easily access the CGA’s ‘‘sit-around’’ the table games and feel delight in its competitive games, the Disabled who may not need to work hard to play most of the native games in a fashionable winning approach.

DISCOVER CGA

OUR VIEWS

The Cultural Games Association attract participants from around the regions in Ghana and we continue to strive to share the new developed games and sports with people we view as individuals or groups who share our ideas and vision for global sports transformation. We believe in initiating endeavours, embracing perseverance and pursuing for success. Our participants’ acceptance to compete in one of the most notable and interesting sports like the Ampe Sports, Chaskele Sports, Skyball and Catapult, Amanball, Ate and Pushboxing is highly selective, and participants bring their unique interests in traditional games and sports, discovery, achievements and practices for additional and advanced mode of cultural games practices. Our developed games and sports are used for human development, health, fitness and social development, wealth and employment creation

Our Mission

The Cultural Games Association, a premier in 21st – Century local games and sports development organization, is committed to excellence through the development and implementation of quality and new games and sports that meet the needs of those participants and target groups it serves. Our Association with unique government status in the National Sports Authority (Ministry of Youth and Sports), and cultural events programs with the National Commission on Culture (Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture) remains committed in the development, training and exposure of Ghana’s traditional games and cultural events, and talented citizens who are under resourced with the knowledge and understanding of the subject games through training and education. Core Values

Our Vision

The Cultural Games Association aspires to be a premiere and a community of highly professional and advanced games and sports research organization where our professional participants’ in the various sports can develop their expertise qualities to enhance corporate economic opportunities as well as a ‘‘driving force’’ for securing global recognitions with practical sports organizations both locally and globally.

Our Core Values

CGA core values currently remains as provided in the following lists: >Innovative and critical thinking Ethical behaviour.
>Progressive professional player practices.
>Traditional sports and games responsibility and integrity.
>Local communities’ engagement and responsibility.
>Multi-cultural programs and inclusion.
>Mutual respect and social responsibility

Our Sport

When it comes to professional traditional games development in Ghana and Africa, the Cultural Games Association (CGA) have all available leading personalities and tools to transform concepts in traditional game into real and practical game and sports. Simply, the CGA assist the State’s sports governing body in the development and promotion of the traditional games and we refer to games that were once upon a time most followed games and sports but have unfortunately been abandoned for a reason being that the interests in the games have been declined or no long found. CGA known to government and the public as the premier in sports development in Ghana, is committed to making sure the key Ghana’s developed traditional games have the required attention and technical support they need to succeed in the international sports markets, and most precisely, in every country across the globe.

Only the Cultural Games Association is known by the National Sports Authority (Ministry of Youth and Sports) to develop the Chaskele Sports, Catapulting, GH-Skyball and the Ampe Sports. The CGA skills and expertise in redesigning traditional games distinguishes the Association from other local associations who endeavour to share the CGA’s aspirations especially in promoting local games.

Only the National Commission on Culture (Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture) may give the CGA advise on its cultural events and programs and this comes in recognition of the partnership existing between both organizations. The CGA success in its cultural programs becomes the National Commission on Culture’s success. The Commission can highlight interesting traditional game for the CGA to consider its development and when this happens, the National Sports Authority may come in to provide technical guide, rules and regulations in a situation where the Cultural Games Association intends to organize competitive sports event in Ghana or abroad.

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CGA Management

Cultural Games Association National Organogram

Cultural Games & Sports

The Director-General’s consultations, the Minister’s coordination’s and the President’s decision that favours the Cultural Games Association is what enhances the development and expansion of the Association, and encourages the international communities interests to participate in the Ghana’s developed traditional games.

Cultural Games and Traditions

Here is how we recognize our State personalities whose contributions have led to the complete Ghana games and sports independent, and creating avenues for Ghana’s traditions to reach the global dimensions.

PARTNERSHIP

The Cultural Games Association (CGA) works with government, private institutions and other corporate organizations to address the Association’s principal objective particularly in developing and promoting the Ghana’s traditional games and sports. Our partners provide more technical support and advise than money. The CGA strong partnership with government through the National Commission on Culture in-kind support and traditional games development ideas are helping the CGA achieve its target of international communities’ participations in the Ghana’s developed traditional games. Similarly, the National Sports Authority (Ministry of Youth and Sports) partnership with the Cultural Games Association has created a new area of sports opportunities; increasing youth in sports participations, engaging sportswear production and supply companies for corporate business, strengthening global networks of expertise in areas of traditional sports development, etc.

The CGA’s invitations to the state security agencies namely the Armed Forces, Police Service, Immigration, Fire Service, etc. in the Ghana Games event are aimed to facilitate relations among the security agencies and other group of people, creating effective and sustainable peaceful environment to generate maximum strategic impact for collaboration.

Partner With CGA

As a global sports development organization, the Cultural Games Association offers global network opportunities and activates the process of business change. To unlock and manage your business potential, and build trust in the CGA’s practical local and international reach, we look for well determined and capable partners whose actions demonstrate readiness and preparedness to project each other organization’s business objectives, and this shows that we own our side of each partnership in the business as our own to guarantee a long term success.