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Accra attains city status. [12] Goethe-Institut branch founded. [33] 1962 – Ghana Dance Ensemble formed. [17] 1963 Accra-Tema Development Corporation established. [12] November–December: 1963 African Cup of Nations held. 1964 Greater Accra administrative area created. [12] Boxer Muhammad Ali visits city. [34] 1965 GTV (Ghana) headquartered ...
One of the most influential decisions in the history of the city was that of building the Accra-Kumasi railway in 1908. This was to connect Accra, the country's foremost port at that time, with Ghana's main cocoa-producing regions. In 1923, the railway was completed, and by 1924, cocoa was Ghana's largest export. [citation needed]
Pages in category "History of Accra" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Timeline of Accra;
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 Sénégal River and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal ...
The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum is located in downtown Accra, the capital of Ghana. [2] [3] [4] Over the years, the park has attracted visitors from around the world, with an annual count of approximately 98,000 individuals who visit to pay homage to Ghana's first President, and learn about his life and legacy. As one of the top ...
Korle Lagoon, in Ghana's capital city Accra. In the 1960s, the slum area of Agbogbloshie was a wetland. As the city of Accra urbanized, a ghetto grew, referred to as Old Fadama or Ayaalolo. [8] [2] During the 1980s, the ghetto was a place of shelter for refugees from the Konkomba-Nanumba war. [2]
As an illustration, in mass media, the first indigenous newspaper to be established on the Gold Coast was the Accra Herald, later renamed the West African Herald, first published in 1857 in British Accra by the Euro-African English-trained lawyer Charles Bannerman and his brother Edmund, scions of the then well-connected coastal Bannerman family.
The Accra riots started on 28 February 1948 in Accra, the capital of the then British colony of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). A protest march by unarmed ex-servicemen who were agitating for their benefits as veterans of World War II , who had fought with the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force , was broken up by ...