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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Swedish Gold Coast
    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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    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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  • 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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    Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a colony of Brandenburg-Prussia, later the Kingdom of Prussia, on the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed...
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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 1956 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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  • 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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    General elections were held in Gold Coast on 8 February 1951. Although elections had been held for the Legislative Council since 1925, the Council did...
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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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    James Bannerman (category Gold Coast (British colony) people)
    had died, as Lieutenant-Governor of the colony, and helped to introduce the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast. He married an Ashanti princess, Yaa Hom...
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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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for 1946 Gold Coast general election
    General elections were held in the Gold Coast in June 1946. Constitutional amendments on 29 March 1946 enabled the colony to be the first in Africa to have...
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    St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School (category 1952 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony))
    St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School is a Ghanaian public day senior high school for boys in the Osu district of Accra in the Greater Accra Region. It...
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    Brandenburger and Prussian Gold Coast (1685–1721) and British Gold Coast (1821–1957). In 1957, Ghana was the first African colony south of the Sahara to become...
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    War of the Golden Stool (category 1900 in Gold Coast (British colony))
    Commissioner under the authority of the Governor of the Gold Coast. Ashanti was classed as a colony by conquest. The Ashanti lost their sovereignty but not...
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  • Ghana) Cameroons (1922–61, now part of Cameroon and Nigeria) Gold Coast (British colony) (now Ghana) Nyasaland (now Malawi) Basutoland (now Lesotho) Swaziland...
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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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