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3 days ago · The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. [3] The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the Gold Coast. These were the Gold Coast itself, Ashanti, the ...
3 days ago · Ghana - Colonialism, Independence, Gold Coast: As elsewhere in Africa, the climate of Ghana varied during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). With greater precipitation, the forest spread northward and humans retreated toward the Sahara; when precipitation diminished, they occupied even the present forest. Apart from some pebble tools from high river terraces, the ...
Sep 5, 2024 · Ghana, Gold Coast. Ghana and Togo under colonial rule, in government reports, 1843-1957. East Ardsley, Wakefield, United Kingdom : Microform Academic Publishers, [2016-] "Ghana and Togo were known by the colonial Government as the Gold Coast and British Togoland. These countries' records are published together because Togoland included land ...
3 days ago · Ghana - Independence, Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah: Nkrumah saw independent Ghana as a spearhead for the liberation of the rest of Africa from colonial rule and the establishment of a socialist African unity under his leadership. After the founding of a republic in 1960, the state became identified with a single political party (the CPP), with Nkrumah, as life president of both, taking ever more ...
Aug 27, 2024 · Akan states, historical complex of gold-producing forest states in western Africa lying between the Comoé and Volta rivers (in an area roughly corresponding to the coastal lands of the modern republics of Togo, Ghana, and, in part, Côte d’Ivoire). Their economic, political, and social systems were transformed from the 16th to the 18th ...
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2 days ago · The history of West Africa has been divided into ... Anglo-Ashanti wars in the Gold Coast in 1823, 1824–1831, 1863–64, 1873–74, 1895–96 and 1900. Only the ...
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18 hours ago · European contact with the Asante on the Gulf of Guinea coast region of Africa began in the 15th century. This led to trade in gold , ivory , slaves , and other goods with the Portuguese . [ 6 ] On May 15, 1817, the Englishman Thomas Bowdich entered Kumasi.