Ghana (then the Gold Coast) famously became the first sub-Saharan African colony to attain independence on March 6, 1957.

ACCRA, British Gold Coast Colony, April 6 -- The situation in Ashanti is unchanged. A Coomassie runner reports that all the Ashanti tribes are in arms, the King of Bekwai alone remaining loyal.

researchers have uncovered a vast and long-forgotten colony that once teemed with human life, nestled beneath the waves off the northern coast of Kimberley, Australia. According to the Australian ...

After a final uprising in 1901, led by the Queen Mother of Ejisu (Yaa Asantewaa) Asante came into British Protection and finally became a region of the Gold Coast colony. In 1957, after a period ...

From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire in Africa. "Togoland", the later Togo and the ...