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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. The term Gold Coast is...
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    Empire in September, 1939. Though no combat occurred in the Gold Coast colony, the colony supplied resources and manpower for the Allies. Two days after...
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  • to the Gold Coast Colony, the governor of the Gold Coast was for most of the period also responsible for the administration of the Ashanti Colony, the Northern...
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    there since the late 1400s. Eventually, the Dutch Gold Coast became the most important Dutch colony in West Africa after Fort Elmina was captured from...
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  • Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) Gold Coast (British colony) (British, 1821–1957) Hong Kong Gold Coast, a private housing...
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    the name Ghana. British colonisation in Africa British Togoland Colonial Nigeria Gambia Colony and Protectorate Gold Coast (British colony) Royal West African...
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  • disaffected members of the CPP, to form the Ghana Congress Party. Gold Coast (British colony) The Big Six (Ghana) Aubynn, Anthony Kwesi (2002). "Behind the...
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    and Christiansborg respectively, Accra served as the capital of the British Gold Coast between 1877 and 1957 and has since transitioned into a modern metropolis...
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    The Swedish Gold Coast (Swedish: Svenska Guldkusten) was a colony of the Swedish Africa Company founded in 1650 by Hendrik Carloff on the Gulf of Guinea...
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  • Thumbnail for 1951 Gold Coast general election
    General elections were held in the Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925, the Council...
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    government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence. The British Government stated it would agree to a firm date for independence...
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  • Thumbnail for 1948 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
    The Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) was an African anti-colonialist organization formed in 1897 in the Gold Coast, as Ghana was...
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  • Thumbnail for Cape Coast Castle
    Cape Coast Castle (Swedish: Carolusborg) is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa (now...
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    part voted to merge the territory with the neighbouring British Crown colony of the Gold Coast, which was heading towards independence, rather than remain...
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  • Thumbnail for Danish Gold Coast
    a crown colony of the kingdom of Denmark-Norway. The area under Danish influence was over 10,000 square kilometres. The five Danish Gold Coast Territorial...
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  • The Big Six (Ghana) (category 1948 in Gold Coast (British colony))
    leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), one of the leading political parties in the British colony of the Gold Coast, known after independence...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
    The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, commonly known as the Northern Territories, was a British protectorate in Africa from 1901 until 1957. The...
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  • Thumbnail for 1954 Gold Coast general election
    government issued a white paper containing proposals for Gold Coast independence. The British Government stated it would agree to a firm date for independence...
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    comprising the Gold Coast Crown Colony, the Ashanti Crown Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and British Togoland were united...
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  • Thumbnail for Portuguese Gold Coast
    Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) along the Gulf of Guinea. Established in 1482, the colony was...
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  • History of Gold Coast may refer to: History of Gold Coast, Queensland History of Gold Coast (British colony) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • Kumasi Girls Senior High School (category 1953 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony))
    Kumasi Girls is located at Abrepo, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The school is adjacent to the County hospital. The school was started...
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  • Thumbnail for Brandenburger Gold Coast
    The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a part of the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1701, after which it...
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  • Queen of Apostles Boarding School, Elmina (category 19th-century establishments in Gold Coast (British colony))
    Queen of Apostles Boarding School (formerly OLA Boarding) is a public Catholic primary boarding school for girls, located in Elmina, in the Central Region...
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  • Coussey Committee (category 1949 in Gold Coast (British colony))
    considered a proponent of the British ideology, as his views of "independence now" were at variance with the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). His radical...
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    Tetteh Quarshie (category Gold Coast (British colony) people)
    agriculturalist in the British Colony of Gold Coast and the person directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast, which today constitute...
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  • Spencer Davis (governor) (category British expatriates in Gold Coast (British colony))
    the English bar by Gray's Inn in 1905, Davis served in St Kitts, the Gold Coast, Tanganyika, and Palestine before becoming Governor of Saint Helena in...
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  • Accra Great Olympics F.C. (category 1954 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony))
    Accra Great Olympics is a Ghanaian professional football club based in Accra, Greater Accra. The club is currently competing in the Ghana Premier League...
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  • Nii Kwabena Bonnie III (category 1948 in Gold Coast (British colony))
    Kwamla Theodore Taylor, was a Ghanaian (Ga) traditional ruler in Gold Coast, a British colony in West Africa, in 1947. He was a chief of Osu Alata Mantse and...
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