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Swedes (Swedish Gold Coast) Gold Coastians – Ghanaians (Ghana) v. t. e. The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa that was rich in gold, petroleum, sweet crude oil and natural gas. This former region is now known as the country Ghana.
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 ...
Gold Coast Euro-Africans. Gold Coast Euro-Africans were a historical demographic based in coastal urban settlements in colonial Ghana, that arose from unions between European men and African women from the late 15th century – the decade between 1471 and 1482, until the mid-20th century, circa 1957, when Ghana attained its independence. [ 1 ...
History of Ghana. The area of the Republic of Ghana (the then Gold Coast) became known in Europe and Arabia as the Ghana Empire after the title of its Emperor, the Ghana. [ 1 ] Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles (800 km) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the ...
A sketch of the town of Bathurst, The Gambia, published in 1824 Otoo Ababio II., Omanhene of Abura, being presented to Prince of Wales, Accra, Gold Coast, 1925. British West Africa constituted during two periods (17 October 1821, until its first dissolution on 13 January 1850, and again 19 February 1866, until its final demise on 28 November 1888) as an administrative entity under a governor ...
The Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) along the Gulf of Guinea. [1] Established in 1482, the colony was officially incorporated into Dutch territory in 1642 . [2] From their seat of power at the fortress of São Jorge da Mina (located in modern Elmina), the Portuguese commanded a ...
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An Asante Embassy on the Gold Coast. The Mission of Akyempon Yaw to Elmina, 1869–1872. Afrika-Studiecentrum. ISBN 90-70110-25-3. Daaku, Kwame Yeboa (1970). Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600–1720. A Study of the African Reaction to European Trade. Clarendon Press, Oxford. doi:10.2307/1159541. ISBN 9780198216537. JSTOR 1159541.