Concerning the trade on this Coast, we notified your Highness that nowadays the natives no longer occupy themselves with the search for gold, but rather make war on each other in order to furnish ...

At the same time African Nationalists were increasingly ... and diplomat K.B. Asante talk about pre-Independence Ghana The Gold Coast in the 1950's was a country with the highest level of ...

Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part of the British Empire since 1874. Europeans referred to the region as the Gold Coast due to the amount of gold found there.

later to be known as the Trans-Volta Togo (TVT), and then as the Volta Region (VR), was administered by the Governor of the Gold Coast who reported on the British protectorate directly to the ...

Residents on the Gold Coast have felt the brute force of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred overnight, including damaging winds and torrential rain. The region recorded wind gusts of more than 100 ...