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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.
The grant of independence to the Gold Coast was achieved by two separate legislative operations, namely, the passing of the Act and the making of the Ghana (Constitution) Order in Council 1957. [3] A matter that complicated the legislation was that what was to become Ghana was not a single constitutional unit but rather four distinct areas:
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 Gold Coast was a strategic location during the Atlantic slave trade. [28] The Portuguese, Swedish, Dano-Norwegians, Dutch, and German traders erected more than thirty forts and castles in the region, with the last, Germans, establishing the German Gold Coast. [29] British soldiers ransack an Ashanti palace at Fomena in 1874. In 1874, the ...
Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) British Gold Coast ( English , 1821–1957) Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions: [ 2 ]
The Gold Coast gained independence in 1957 under the legal name of Ghana. Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah was elected as the 1st President of Ghana in 1960. The government of Kwame Nkrumah won the approval of a constitutional referendum in 1964, that made Ghana a One-party state and him, president for life .
The United Gold Coast convention pioneered the call for independence within the shortest possible time after the Gold Coast legislative election in 1947. [20] Osagyefo in 1952, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah won the election to lead the Gold Coast administration [21] after he won the Gold Coast legislative election in 1951. [22] Led by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and ...
A postage stamp of Gold Coast overprinted for Ghanaian independence in 1957. Ghana gained independence from the British on 6 March 1957. [1] It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. [2] The country became a republic on July 1, 1960. [3]