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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 ...
1944, March 24- Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the republic of Ghana. [27] 1947, June 22 - John Jerry Rawlings, former president of the republic of Ghana. [28] 1958, November 29 - John Dramani Mahama, president of Ghana, [29] as successor to President John Atta Mills after his demise. 1963, October 7 - Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president of ...
Ghana. From 1966 to 1979, the nation of Ghana underwent a turbulent era as the Second Republic of Ghana. It began when the government of Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown on February 24, 1966 by a military coup (one which may have been foreseen by the US government). After the coup, the National Liberation Council (NLC) took control of the country ...
From the 1940s, native Ghanaians yearned for more autonomy. This resulted in the several constitutional reforms as well as the creation of the office of the Prime Minister in 1952. 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.
Ghana–Spain relations are the bilateral relations between Ghana and Spain. Ghana has an embassy in Madrid since March 2024 [ 1 ] and a consulate in Barcelona . [ 2 ] Spain has an embassy in Accra .
Asante Empire. "Ashanti Empire" redirects here. For the modern-day region, see Ashanti Region. The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), also known as the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day Ghana. [ 6 ] It expanded from the Ashanti Region to include most of Ghana and also parts of Ivory ...
Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República española), historiographically referred to as the First Spanish Republic (Spanish: Primera República española), was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1873 to 29 December 1874. The Republic's founding ensued after the abdication of King Amadeo on 10 February 1873.