The National Unity Games is a scheduled annual affair which brings together under one grand canopy the youthful sportsmen and women of Ghana for a period. Since the inception of various sporting disciplines in Ghana, the National Unity Games has always been the rallying point where many sporting disciplines are organised by the country through the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the National Sports Authority to unearth talents, promote and develop sports.

The Festival has over the years lived under different names: Foundation Day, Revolutionary Anniversary Games, and now the National Unity Games for this year. The 2011 National Unity Games, which takes place in Accra, and is scheduled from the 16th -26th July, will see about 5,000 men and women vying for honour in various disciplines.

The festival dubbed ‘National Unity Games’ will assemble over 5,000 sportsmen and women to participate in twenty(20) disciplines namely taekwondo, tennis, handball ,colts soccer, judo, basketball, swimming, table tennis, disabled sports.

The rest are karate-do, athletics, boxing, volleyball, badminton, netball, scrabble, weightlifting, cycling, hockey and chess. The festival will kick off in July, in Accra on the theme ‘Unifying the people through Sports’.