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Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy , located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean , in the subregion of West Africa . Spanning a land mass of 238 , 535 km² , Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west , Burkina Faso in the north , Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south . " Ghana " means " ___MASK56___ King " in the Soninke language . The RITA Award is the most prominent award given throughout the genre of romance fiction . It is presented by Romance Writers of America ( RWA ). The purpose of the RITA Award is to promote excellence in the romance genre by recognizing outstanding published novels and novellas . It is named for the RWA ' s first ___MASK20___ , Rita Clay Estrada . Accra is the capital and most populous city of Ghana , with an estimated urban population of 2 . 27 million . It is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolis District , with which it is conterminous . Accra is furthermore the anchor of a larger metropolitan area , the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area ( GAMA ), which is inhabited by about 4 million people and the thirteenth - largest metropolitan area in Africa . Jessica Hart ( b . Accra , Ghana ) is a British ___MASK61___ of over 55 romance novels in Mills & Boon . She is winner of the US RITA Award and the British RoNA Award . Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in Africa around in size . It is surrounded by six countries : Mali to the north ; Niger to the east ; Benin to the southeast ; Togo and Ghana to the south ; and Ivory Coast to the southwest . Its capital is Ouagadougou . In 2014 its population was estimated at just over 17 . 3 million . Burkina Faso is a francophone country and French is an ___MASK15___ language of government and business . Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta , the country was renamed " Burkina Faso " on 4 August 1984 by then - President Thomas Sankara . Residents of Burkina Faso are known as " Burkinabé ". West Africa , also called Western Africa and the West of Africa , is the westernmost subregion of Africa . West Africa has been defined as including 18 countries : Benin , Burkina Faso , the island nation of Cape Verde , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea - Bissau , Ivory Coast , Liberia , Mali , Mauritania , Niger , Nigeria , the island of ___MASK54___ Helena , Senegal , Sierra Leone , São Tomé and Príncipe and Togo . The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana ' s 10 administrative regions , occupying a total land surface of 3 , 245 square kilometres or 1 . 4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana . It is the second most populated region , after the Ashanti Region , with a population of 2 , 905 , 726 in 2000 , ___MASK98___ for 15 . 4 per cent of Ghana  s total population . The Greater Accra Region was part of the Eastern Region ___MASK39___ to 1982 and Greater Accra region was created from the Eastern Region in 1982 and currently harbors the seat of government in Accra . The romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass - market literary genre . Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people , and must have an " emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending ." There are many subgenres of the romance novel including fantasy , historical romance , paranormal fiction , and science fiction . Walter Scott defined the literary fiction form of romance as " a fictitious narrative in prose or verse ; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents ". Rita Clay Estrada ( born July 31 , 1941 in Michigan , US ) is an US ___MASK61___ of romance novels as Rita Clay , Tira Lacy and Rita Clay Estrada , she also wrote non - fiction books about writing romance novels . She was the first ___MASK20___ of the Romance Writers of America , and founding ___MASK17___ with her mother Rita Gallagher . A subregion is a part of a larger region or continent and is usually based on location . ___MASK29___ directions , such as south or southern , are commonly used to define a subregion . Historical romance ( also historical novel ) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past . Walter Scott helped popularize this genre in the early 19th - century , with works such as " Rob Roy " and " Ivanhoe ". Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published , and a notable recent example is " Wolf Hall " ( 2009 ), a multi - award winning novel by English historical ___MASK3___ Hilary Mantel . It is also a genre of mass - market fiction , which is related to the broader romantic love genre